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The lady may have a winning smile and be easy on the eyes but beware – there’s evidence here and here and here that she’s a Marxist or at the very least, “left of Labour”.  This pretty well sums it up: Caroline Lucas MEP retorting to David Starkey’s “insult” of “the Greens are just socialists [...]

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The UK Independence Party offered to disband if David Cameron agreed to hold a referendum on the ratified Lisbon treaty.  Lord Pearson of Rannoch, UKIP’s newly elected leader, said in an interview with The Times that he proposed the deal after the party’s strong showing in the European elections. So, where do some Tories get [...]

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The Herald Sun has a poignant tale: It was a very easy mistake to make. Most pedestrians marched quickly past this forlorn old man, dressed in rags and shabbily slumped on a Lonsdale St bench, his upturned hat at his feet. They had seen his like many times – a veteran of life’s misfortunes, begging [...]

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Is this the EU the Europhiles wish us to be more deeply integrated with? Via Angus, staying on the EU “theme”: European Union farm subsidies were paid out last year to Swedish accordion musicians, Danish snooker players, Dutch ice skaters and an Estonian society for old school classmates, official figures show. Unusual payments included almost [...]

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Get this for dialogue [above] One of the commenters, kramnesnay, wrote:

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Most times, Vox Day writes pretty good stuff but sometimes he hits a purple patch: It’s not that women actively dislike the “beta providers”, or as I prefer to identify them, the deltas. It’s merely that they are not sexually drawn to them in the way they are attracted to the brooding control freaks and [...]

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I watched a couple of the televised debates between the three front-runners in the UK election, and I’ve read several British blog posts about the hustings in various constituencies, and one thing that has struck me is that they all seem to be silent about the elephant in the room — that the Labour Party, [...]

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You have your own opinion and I don’t believe you will be swayed by what I write here.  Nonetheless, for what they’re worth, here are my recommendations: 1.  By now you should have checked out the candidates in your local area.  You can do that here or here.  In our database, you’ll see an ID [...]

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Rotten Tomatoes gave Iron Man 1 93% and who am I to disagree?  In any comic book movie, the key is going to be the acting and in Robert Downey Jnr, there’s a fine example of just that. Roger Ebert wrote: With many superhero movies, all you get is the surface of the illusion. With [...]

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Jessica Watson has weathered storms on her journey but now that she’s rounded Tasmania and is within sight of home, the editor, Nancy Knudson, of an American publication Sail World has come out and written that Jessica has not qualified for the round the world record after all. The American contender had to pull in [...]

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Is this the EU the Europhiles wish us to be more deeply integrated with? A European Commissioner has warned it may be necessary to further regulate the role of credit rating agencies.  Michel Barnier, in charge of revamping financial services, told the European Parliament he had been surprised by the rapid deterioration of Greece’s rating. [...]

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How much of our private life is fit for blogposts I’m not sure.  Of all the things I’ve done wrong in my life, it’s the errors of omission with my mother I regret the most.  At a time when she was intermittently lucid and we shan’t go into that, she kept on at us [I [...]

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England Expects and the TPA have both posted on something extraordinary which has now come up: EE:  In the autumn, Britain will have to re-ratify the Lisbon Treaty. Over in Brussels things are afoot and the first major Foreign Policy act of a new PM will be to go to Brussels to rubber stamp a [...]

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Poll shows Cameron needs just 14 more seats Clegg could still spoil Cameron’s party Seems to me that those two headlines combined are the closest prediction yet although as my mate said yesterday – there are still a hell of a lot of floating voters out there.  One thing the poll did NOT cover was [...]

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