• Cancer guarantee complete shambles

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • Serious questions about independence of the Office of Budget Responsibility - Darling

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • Coalition's U-turn on prison parties - Straw

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • Cameron admits fewer criminals will be put in jail

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • Results of Labour’s approach to supporting the recovery

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • Huge risks the Government is running with the economy - McFadden

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
    Shadow Business Secretary, Pat McFadden MP, responding to the latest survey of business attitudes from the Federation of Small Businesses said: "This survey shows the huge risks the Government is running with the economy.  ldquo;By cutting back spending so fast and so deeply, this is not just having an effect on the public sector but the private sector too.  ldquo;Today's figures show a sense of foreboding among small businesses about their prospects for the future."

  • "Home Secretary demonstrates a lack of understanding" - Johnson

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • Unemployment Figures

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • "David Cameron owes the public an apology today" - Khan

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • Unlikely civil society will become "bigger" with large public spending cuts - Jowell

    Updated: 2010-07-31 23:46:46
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  • How low can the Liberal Democrats go?

    Updated: 2010-07-31 21:27:14

  • Best blogs: I'm voting for James Delingpole

    Updated: 2010-07-31 10:21:58
    You have until midnight tonight to vote for your top ten blogs. Me? I’m voting for James Delingpole. It’s true that he’s being a bit touchy about the whole thing. Then again, as God says – and rightly – “unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that [...]

  • Francis Maude declares the Coalition Government as more radical than Thatcher in her first term

    Updated: 2010-07-31 07:53:03

  • Charity director slams quango for bullying

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:49:01

  • David Cameron writes an end of term report

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:07:36

  • Fret not Harriet!

    Updated: 2010-07-30 16:41:11
    Total Politics because knowledge is power Home Magazine Blogs YouTube Daily Politico Subscriptions Internships Editorial Board The Team About Contact Shop Political Speeches Political Blogs Political Quotes Quote of the day : Boris' bikes by Jess Freeman Fret not Harriet July 30th , 2010 Harriet Harman turns 60 today . In three months time she will be eligible for a state pension . However , given the government’s announcement this week that there will be no mandatory retirement age , there is no pressure on Harman to retreat from politics . Total Politics lists some inspirational female politicians who made great achievements late into their 60s , 70s and even 80s . Aged 71, Betty Boothroyd resigned as Speaker to the House of Commons . The no-nonsense national treasure famously switched

  • David Cameron's most important pronouncement from last night's BBC documentary

    Updated: 2010-07-30 13:40:01

  • All three parties will now disregard their manifestos on the AV referendum

    Updated: 2010-07-30 08:19:45
    To understand why our politicians are held in such contempt, look no further than the coming Bill on a referendum to change the voting system. I forever blogging about the absurdity of holding a referendum on AV, which neither of the two coalition parties proposed at the last election, while not having a referendum on Europe, [...]

  • Coalition won't last full term, says Oaten

    Updated: 2010-07-30 05:00:00
    As David Cameron writes to Tory MPs insisting that the coalition is "delivering" for the party, former Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Mark Oaten writes for Channel 4 News xpressing his doubts hat he union will last a full term.

  • Highlights from BBC2's review of the Coalition negotiations

    Updated: 2010-07-29 21:02:40

  • Is Labour neglecting its non-English members?

    Updated: 2010-07-29 17:00:25
    Total Politics because knowledge is power Home Magazine Blogs YouTube Daily Politico Subscriptions Internships Editorial Board The Team About Contact Shop Political Speeches Political Blogs Political Quotes Interview : Karen Lumley MP by Jess Freeman Is Labour neglecting its non-English members July 29th , 2010 Andy Burnham will be flying out to Northern Ireland tomorrow making him the first Labour leadership contender to visit Northern Ireland . His air miles are being used to thank Northern Ireland’s Labour Party for nominating him as their candidate the first time they have ever backed anyone well , being newly formed they’ve only had one chance However , today Labour’s Jon Cruddas argued in the New Statesman that Labour needs to build a specifically English strategy which concentrates

  • Interview: Karen Lumley MP

    Updated: 2010-07-29 16:38:25
    : Total Politics because knowledge is power Home Magazine Blogs YouTube Daily Politico Subscriptions Internships Editorial Board The Team About Contact Shop Political Speeches Political Blogs Political Quotes Is Labour neglecting its non-English members What Osborne won’t be celebrating about the economy by Juliet Shardlow Interview : Karen Lumley MP July 29th , 2010 Karen Lumley is the Conservative MP for Redditch . She talks to us about the Welsh affairs select committee , NHS cuts and making her mind up over the Severn . crossings Do you think the gains made by the Conservatives in Wales at the last election mean that there's no safe ground now for Labour That’s been the case for the past few years . I'm from an old Labour council Wrexham , in Wales and now it’s a Liberal-controlled

  • Bullfighting has been banned in Catalonia, but is more popular than ever in France

    Updated: 2010-07-29 08:05:59
    Catalonia’s decision to proscribe bullfights has less to do with sentiment towards animals than with regional assertiveness. Nothing wrong with that, of course: as a localist, I’m all for provinces and regions drawing up their own laws. But don’t make the mistake of extrapolating too widely, as the BBC has, from a decision based largely [...]

  • Nick Clegg seems to clear David Cameron of the charge of having lied to the '22 in order to form the Coalition

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:37:05

  • Tell people that they are "fat" rather than "obese", recommends Anne Milton

    Updated: 2010-07-28 23:11:21

  • "Mr Cameron has insisted that not another single British soldier will be deployed to Afghanistan on his watch"

    Updated: 2010-07-28 17:29:33

  • What are the biggests threats to the Coalition? Should the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats field joint candidates in some seats? Do you support AV? When should Britain leave Afghanistan?

    Updated: 2010-07-28 13:00:45

  • I will not retreat from immigration pledge, insists Cameron

    Updated: 2010-07-28 07:48:00

  • CCHQ says Labour will be easier to fight once a successor to Brown has been chosen

    Updated: 2010-07-27 14:59:15

  • David Cameron is right: the EU is treating Turkey abominably

    Updated: 2010-07-27 09:22:22
    The EU is treating Turkey shabbily. Singly, member states have perfectly consistent policies. Some countries want, in Gladstone’s phrase, to bundle the Turk, bag and baggage, out of Europe. France, Austria and (less vocally) Germany are in this camp. Others, led by Britain, see Turkish membership as strategically valuable: a way to bolster the world’s [...]

  • Gaza is a "prison camp", says Cameron

    Updated: 2010-07-27 08:21:53

  • "Humiliated" Liberal Democrats want more concessions from Cameron in time for Party Conference season

    Updated: 2010-07-27 07:52:19

  • Cameron gives unequivocal backing to Turkish membership of EU

    Updated: 2010-07-26 21:21:48

  • Questions for you?

    Updated: 2010-07-26 10:19:37

  • Does FCO now stand for Foreign and Commerce Office?

    Updated: 2010-07-25 23:35:01

  • There's nothing Right-wing about the BNP – except in the BBC sense of 'baddie'

    Updated: 2010-07-25 10:35:10
    “I really am bored of [sic] Right-wing Tories like my old mate Dan Hannan insisting that the British National Party is ‘far Left’,” says our excellent Blogs Editor, Damian Thompson. Well, OK, Dame, but it’s more than just a debating point. And it’s not just Right-wing Tories. Here for example, is the Left-wing New Statesman: “A brief skim [...]

  • The welfare state we're in

    Updated: 2010-07-23 20:56:55
    Here’s a devastating critique of the benefits system from the TaxPayers’ Alliance. I mean, would you get up at 4.30 am and struggle to work to clean toilets if the net benefit to you was the equivalent of just 26 pence an hour?

  • The far-Left BNP has never supported the monarchy, so why did its leaders WANT to go to the Buckingham Palace Garden Party?

    Updated: 2010-07-23 11:20:22
    Buckingham Palace was perfectly within its rights to withdraw Nick Griffin’s invitation. He had behaved thoroughly boorishly by turning a private invitation into a publicity stunt. More interesting, surely, is the question of why Griffin wanted to meet his sovereign. The BNP, being a far Left party, has never much cared for the Crown. Although it [...]

  • For some, the EU is not ambitious enough: the ultimate goal is one world government

    Updated: 2010-07-22 21:55:50
    For 70 years, a quixotic organisation called Federal Union has been campaigning for a worldwide confederation. There is a whiff of benign 1930s dottiness about its campaign: of handbills and sandals, Esperanto and vegetarianism, decimalisation and naturism. You can’t help warming to people whose only real complaint against the EU is that it is insufficiently [...]

  • Sarah Palin, never misunderestimate Shakespeare

    Updated: 2010-07-22 07:57:07
    I am thoroughly taken with Sarah Palin’s neologism. People often incorrectly use the word “refute” to mean something like “deny” or “reject”, only stronger. We could do with a new word to fill this gap and, since both “refute” and “repudiate” are already occupied with their actual meanings, neither can be pressed into service. “Refudiate” [...]

  • What a relief not to have to worry when our prime minister goes overseas (except to Brussels, obviously)

    Updated: 2010-07-21 18:32:45
    What a pleasure to have a statesmanlike prime minister again. Gordon Brown’s foreign summits could be wince-making: his awkwardness, his gaucheness, the way he would take off the headphones and chat to aides when someone spoke a foreign language. David Cameron, by contrast, has played the role effortlessly, down to the inspired choice of pink [...]

  • Quote of the day

    Updated: 2010-07-20 17:15:20
    Bookmark this category The new Government are looking to make the tax system a little more simple according to the BBC.   The quote of the day for me is from the BBC report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10691779    Mr Osborne said his "dream" was "that people might actually understand the tax laws which they were being asked to comply with.   Now where [...]

  • Crime at lowest level – the figures must be wrong, Labour were in power not the Tories! Time to shift the goalpost.

    Updated: 2010-07-15 17:26:53
    , . iPhone Mobile The Wardman Wire Politics and Life Subscribe Subscribe by email Portal Blog News Politics Local International Religion Media Legal Review Tutorial Browse : Home All WW Columns Politics Decoded Crime at lowest level the figures must be wrong , Labour were in power not the Tories Time to shift the goalpost . Crime at lowest level the figures must be wrong , Labour were in power not the Tories Time to shift the . goalpost By Garbo July 15, 2010 Politics Decoded Spring 2010 by Garbo Bullygate exposes the poor spin operators at Tory HQ once again : Politics Decoded by Garbo Is Labour making a comeback Politics Decoded by Garbo Are the Tories bored of playing it safe or bored of losing Politics Decoded by Garbo Under-estimating the Labour party by Garbo Brown should call a

  • Nick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?”

    Updated: 2010-07-15 09:47:40
    Post from: The Wardman WireNick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?” Post from: The Wardman Wire<a href="http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2010/07/15/nick-clegg-what-mandate-did-they-have-i-didnt-vote-for-them/"Nick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?”

  • Shooting: The Sport, The Facts

    Updated: 2010-06-23 22:31:23
    A good shooting video by Mike Yardley: Shooting: The Sport, The Facts from James Marchington on Vimeo.

  • Not the BBC’s finest broadcast.

    Updated: 2010-06-08 23:03:21
    A debate on the BBC on Sunday just passed. Not the finest broadcast and it would have been interesting to hear a little more from Michael Yardley. The Big Questions: Gun debate from James Marchington on Vimeo.

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