Category Archives: Politics

He’s NOT the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!

July 2, 2009 – 11:21 pm

Councillors in Glasgow have lifted an unofficial 30-year-old ban on the Monty Python film The Life of Brian. The council’s licensing and regulatory committee approved a request on Tuesday from Glasgow Film Theatre to show the biblical satire under a 15 certificate.
Glasgow was one of 39 local authorities in the UK that refused to [...]

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I come not with peace, but with a sword.

June 29, 2009 – 1:26 am

A pastor in the US state of Kentucky told his flock to bring handguns to church in what he said was an effort to promote safe gun ownership.
Pastor Ken Pagano told parishioners to bring their unloaded guns to New Bethel Church in Louisville for a service celebrating the right to bear arms. He said he [...]

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Right Dishonourable Members: We need a Cable for that Speaker

June 22, 2009 – 1:10 am

MPs in the running to succeed Michael Martin as House of Commons Speaker on Monday have come under scrutiny in more allegations over expenses claims. Details of tax-funded expenses have been published in The Sunday Telegraph. The paper says Labour’s Margaret Beckett claimed more than £11,000 for gardening and Tory MP John Bercow twice claimed [...]

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Things that make me proud

June 21, 2009 – 10:48 am

Jim Belshaw wrote a post listing 5 things that make him proud, and has tagged SL and I to do the same. I’m not going to write a list, mainly because I’m terrible at lists. I struggle with memes.
The main thing in life that makes me proud is family: my children, my husband, my sister, [...]

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Right Dishonourable Members: STBO*

June 17, 2009 – 4:13 am

Sir Christopher Kelly today accused MPs of exploiting their allowances for personal gain, as he opened his long-awaited inquiry into Commons expenses.
The chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life said that MPs appeared to lack principles, when they should have shown honesty and integrity.
“These values are timeless,” he said, at the start of [...]

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Home Grown

June 12, 2009 – 5:59 am

From Little Green Footballs:
As we noted last Sunday, when murder suspect Scott Roeder was arrested, the phone number of Operation Rescue was discovered on a Post-It note in his car.
Now it turns out that this wasn’t just the phone number of the Operation Rescue office, but of a specific person: Cheryl Sullenger, the senior policy [...]

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Right Dishonourable Members: Will the last minister to leave, please turn off the lights

June 7, 2009 – 5:16 am

James Purnell the work and pensions secretary, last night dealt a monumental blow to Gordon Brown’s chances of holding onto office when he dramatically announced he was quitting the cabinet and asking Brown “to stand aside to give Labour a fighting chance of winning the next election”.
His statement, in effect declaring Brown unelectable, will [...]

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MONDAY FUNNIES: Selective Termination

June 2, 2009 – 5:57 am

A prominent US abortion doctor has been shot dead at a church in the city of Wichita, Kansas.
Dr George Tiller, one of the few US doctors who performed late-term abortions, had been vilified by anti-abortionists in the US. The gunman fled in a car, but officials say a suspect is now in custody. US Attorney [...]

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Right Dishonourable Members: Lest we Forget

May 31, 2009 – 6:23 am

FIFTEEN members of the Scottish Parliament have been shamed into repaying expenses they claimed for Remembrance Day wreaths. The MSPs – from the SNP, Labour and Liberal Democrats – reclaimed money that was paid to Poppyscotland and the Lady Haig Poppy Factory for the wreaths. Both charities raise funds for veterans.
It came as their actions [...]

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Right Dishonourable Members: Hoist by your own canard

May 24, 2009 – 6:00 am

A Tory MP is to retire after admitting he claimed a £1,645 “duck island” on expenses - as two Labour ministers face questions over capital gains tax.
Sir Peter Viggers, whose gardening claims totalled £30,000, is to quit at “the direct request of David Cameron”.
Meanwhile Gordon Brown defended James Purnell and Geoff Hoon, saying they had [...]

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