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You wouldn’t read about it

January 12, 2010 – 5:14 am

A Muslim protester accused of calling soldiers murderers at a parade claims he did not intend to upset anyone. Munim Abdul told Luton magistrates he did not expect to cause offence because his group had spoken “the truth”.
Seven men deny using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress. [...]

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I am not an underclass

November 24, 2009 – 3:10 am

Disability sucks. I just thought you should know that.
It’s sometimes painful, always inconvenient and inclined to bite gaping holes out of your self esteem. Most people are pretty reliable: they get up in the morning, go to work or school during the week and kick back on the weekends doing activities they enjoy once the [...]

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Labour rank(n)phile

November 20, 2009 – 11:20 am

Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader, is to be charged with driving without due care and attention and driving while using a mobile phone, the Crown Prosecution Service announced last night…
The CPS made the decision to prosecute last night after being passed a file by the Metropolitan Police on 9 November. If found guilty of [...]

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Have a go hair-o

November 4, 2009 – 8:07 pm

London mayor Boris Johnson has rescued a woman who was being attacked by an armed group of young girls, chasing them down the road on his bicycle.
Franny Armstrong called for help as she was surrounded and pushed by the girls, one of whom had an iron bar, in Camden, north London, on Monday night. The [...]

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South Park On Thames

November 1, 2009 – 8:35 pm

Sir Ian Blair says he was forced out of the job of Metropolitan Police commissioner by Boris Johnson “to show the power of the London mayoralty”.
He told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show that it had “dangerous implications” for the future of British policing. He also said the UK did not have the safeguards in place [...]

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Right Dishonourable Members: Do unto others… not us!

October 14, 2009 – 4:53 am

Some MPs are planning to challenge requests they repay money following an independent review of expenses claims.
Auditor Sir Thomas Legg has reviewed second homes expenses claims since 2004 and applied new retrospective limits on allowances for gardening and cleaning.
Labour’s Martin Salter, who does not claim for a second home, said some MPs were angry and [...]

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UK Conservative Party Conference

October 13, 2009 – 4:51 am

Conservative leader David Cameron has said he is “ready to be tested” if his party wins power, in his last conference speech ahead of an election. He said times would be “tough” but his party would “rebuild responsibility” to “put Britain back on her feet”…
Mr Cameron praised some Labour achievements, including the minimum wage and [...]

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The best defence…

September 13, 2009 – 2:17 am

…is a good offence it seems.

Ten people have been arrested during a demonstration outside a mosque in north-west London where an anti-Islamic protest was planned.
At least 1,000 people gathered outside Harrow Central Mosque as activists from Stop Islamification of Europe planned to demonstrate outside the mosque. Unite Against Fascism were also present to “defend the [...]

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RDM: Damn poor show…

August 20, 2009 – 9:42 am

A senior Conservative has called for MPs’ pay to be doubled – in return for scrapping their second home allowance. Sir Patrick Cormack says MPs annual pay should increase from £64,766 to more than £130,000.
He was condemned as “out of touch” by Labour, while Lib Dem Foreign Affairs spokesman Ed Davey said the veteran Tory [...]

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And they say all politicians are liars….

July 19, 2009 – 6:00 am

Jacqui Smith feared she was not up to being home secretary and wished she had been better trained for the role, she reveals in a magazine interview. She told Total Politics magazine she had “never run a major organisation” before accepting the job in 2007.
“I hope I did a good job but if I did [...]

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