contribution by Tom Newham Theresa May might be at pains to persuade us her draft Communications Bill isn’t the sort of ‘snoopers charter’ the last government proposed, but she hasn’t yet extended the courtesy of explaining what they entail to the Deputy Prime Minister. That’s according to the influential anti-snooping Lib Dem backbencher Julian Huppert, who slammed the shadowy approach of the Home Office in an address to a group of Liberal Democrat students at the University of Warwick on Thursday
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Exclusive: Nick Clegg ‘hasn’t seen’ snooping bill
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This photo has just been released by the White House from the Camp David summit. What do you suppose Obama is saying? “Cameron, you farted again didn’t you?”
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Caption competition: ‘Yo, Cameron!’
Tomorrow, the 2020 Tax Commission, a joint effort between the Institute of Directors (IoD) and the so-called Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA), chaired by TPA stooge Allister Heath, will present its final report . This is, as of now, embargoed. But we already know much of what it is likely to argue.
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Watch out for the TPA’s report arguing for more cuts tomorrow
contribution by Evan O’Quigley All of Ireland stood and stared in confusion last month when a backbencher MP stated that ‘fornication’ was the main cause of unwanted pregnancies, as a defence against bringing in legislation that would allow for abortion under certain circumstances. Michelle Mulherin, A TD (MP) for Fine Gael, the mainstream centre-right party, said: “abortion as murder, therefore sin … which is no more sinful than … greed, hate and fornication. The latter, being fornication I would say, is probably the single most likely cause of unwanted pregnancies in this country.” Most were shocked; having not seen or heard this kind of language since Ireland was ruled by Bishops in the Catholic Church.
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The resurgence of bigoted conservatism in Ireland
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So Facebook made its debut on the stockmarket yesterday, making a thousand of its employees instant millionaires. Arguably the company is the story of a bunch of college guys who had a great idea and got rewarded for that hard work and building a popular social network. But is the story about rewarding hard work and talent, or about well-connected rich people getting even more richer merely because they are rich
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How Facebook made only the rich more richer
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contribution by Adam Wilcox “Don’t Ever Come Back” was the headline on the Huffington Post yesterday, referring to proposed legislation from two US Senators following the move from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin to renounce his US citizenship. This move will save Saverin a reported $67 Million in potential taxes after Facebook went public. Some Americans seem to have taken Saverin’s decision to leave as a personally offensive
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What’s the point of being ‘British’?
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Alan Johnson MP wants to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London in 2016. Here’s the except from House Magazine : I thought about [running in 2012]. But I think the party made a mistake in having that selection at the same time as the leadership election
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Alan Johnson for London Mayor? Unlikely
After the big miscarriage of justice cases like the Birmingham Six, Britain might be forgiven for thinking that the criminal justice system had learnt from past mistakes and previous sloppy police investigations. But this week a young man called Sam Hallam had his murder conviction quashed by judges. This was only after spending seven years in jail for a killing he did not commit Sam is a Hackney boy
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The real tragedy behind the Sam Hallam case
contribution by Iain Overton The JPMorgan story doesn’t look like it’s going away any time soon. The losses suffered by the bank keep getting bigger and bigger.
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Will JP Morgan be able to walk away from billion dollar losses?
The Fabian Society have done a nifty piece of research that looks at people who have shifted to the Labour party since the 2010 election. Three quarters are former Liberal Democrats, with 2010 Lib Dem voters outnumbering Conservatives four-to-one.
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Labour is now even more reliant on left-wing voters
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