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Exposed: Media fabricated ‘empty tents’ story at Occupy
I was quite shocked seeing this story, in the headlines – that Occupy LSX (Occupy London Stock Exchange) protesters were leaving their tents and going home. However, the media seems detached from...
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ASK THE POWERFUL FIVE QUESTIONS – Tony Benn
ASK THE POWERFUL FIVE QUESTIONS WHAT POWER HAVE YOU GOT? WHERE DID YOU GET IT FROM? IN WHOSE INTERESTS DO YOU YOU EXERCISE IT? TO WHOM ARE YOU ACCOUNTABLE? HOW CAN WE GET RID OF YOU? ONLY DEMOCRACY...
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Are there any jobs out there? | The FactCheck Blog
FactCheck: Are there any jobs out there? | The FactCheck Blog. An interesting article on the amount of unemployed, although it fails to account for jobs with an amount of hours that can’t even...
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Olympian Hangover for the British Government
The fortnight long party that was the Olympics has ended, and with it the Olympic spirit that momentarily distracted everyone from politics. A much needed moral boost for politics has now left,...
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News this Week (UK)
So it’s only Tuesday and there’s been enough things of interest that might have gone under the radar worthy of a recap. Transport Secretary threatens to resign if Cameron reconsiders a third runway at...
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A Comparison To Be Made
A lot of people have tried to make comparisons between our own (UK) democracy and Russia’s in the infamous Pussy Riot case. Someone asked on another blog what would’ve happened had Pussy Riot gone in...
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A Reshuffle for the British Cabinet?
With rumours of a cabinet reshuffle, where everyone would do a game of musical chairs and see how it all ends up (at least I’m assuming that based on the specialist expertise of the present cabinet),...
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Prince Charles – A False-flag Republican?
Prince Charles himself. Thomas Paine, writing a warning for the Americans on the monarchy said that “Such an unwise, unjust, unnatural compact might in the next succession put them under the government...
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Comments & Curios III
The American NGO, operating in North Korea For once, good news about North Korea. The story of an Arizona rancher who moved to the most oppressive country on earth — and is attempting to reconcile two...
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Vince Cable on Austerity in Britain
Balance of risks Contrary to the rhetoric around economic policy, the real disagreements have had little to do with ideology or economic theory. The government has happily deployed Keynesian...
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‘Right to be forgotten’ is not worth fighting for
Following very real concerns created by governments attempting to violate basic internet privacy, some of which were stopped by the EU itself, when the British government seeks to opt out of EU rights...
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Republican Principles in 18th c. Britain
233 years and 4 days ago, John Dunning MP successfully moved a motion that stoutly attempted to make firm Parliament’s sovereignty. This was a key stage in Britain’s democratic and republican growth,...
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The BBC sets the agenda on the Royal family (Republic)
Please note that I didn’t write this, but am reposting it from the campaign for a British Republic ( http://www.republic.org.uk/updates/?p=907 ). The headline is: ‘BBC accused of blocking embarrassing...
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Arbitrary and Unlimited Power, Thrown Away
The monarch’s job is to continue arbitrary and unlimited power, and hand most of it over to government. In 2003, Blair used this to declare war on Iraq without prior parliamentary approval, in 1992,...
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