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Godfrey Bloom high on drugs and drink
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You may have already seen this on the Political Scrapbook blog. It’s so good, I am repeating it for for all my European readers who may not have caught it first time round. Filed under: Labour Party Tagged: Emma McClarkin, European … C...
Lack of quantative easing is central to the Eurozone crisis
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This guest blog is written by Lindsay Thomas who is Director, Sustainable Risks Ltd and a former FSA supervison director The Greek crisis goes on, the Euro weakens, Cameron can conveniently continue to blame the Eurozone for his policies failure...
Patrick Stewart on domestic violence shows up right-wing MEPs
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The actor Patrick Stewart wrote movingly in the Guardian yesterday about how domestic violence blighted his childhood. He condemned the decline in statutory funding going to Refuge, the leading charity in this field. Sadly some MEPs on the right of &...
David Cameron’s EU problems, not the Milibands, are the real story
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Judging by the amount of media coverage generated by David Miliband’s New Statesman article of the “is he going to challenge his brother for the Labour leadership” variety, you would be forgiven for thinking this the at the very top...
Cameron faces more problems with the Eurosceptics
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David Cameron’s feral Eurosceptic backbenchers are not going away. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph today 102 of them urge the Prime Minister to “opt out” of 130 EU laws, including the European Arrest Warrant, over the next two … Contin...
Britain’s Olympic Greats – Nicola Fairbrother MBE
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Nicola Fairbrother took home a silver medal in Judo (56kg weight) from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. This was the first year that women were officially able to compete for medals in the sport, 18 years after its first appearance during the … Co...
Britain’s Olympic Hopefuls – Karina Bryant
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One of the great things about the Olympics is the opportunity it provides for sports with lesser media coverage to take top billing. Karina Bryant began practising Judo at the age of 10 in Camberley Judo Club in Surrey. This … Continue readin...
European Parliament makes strong progress on outlawing counterfeiting
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The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerlandand the USA has been the focus of much attention over the past few weeks. I have recei...
Busting a new ‘Euromyth’ – the EU is NOT demanding its logo at sporting events
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The European Parliament has just voted through a report called ‘The European Dimension in Sport’, which may be featuring in the rightwing press in the coming days. When the report went through the Culture and Education Committee in Novemb...
Marginalised Cameron tries to defend his EU U-turn
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“A veto is not for life, it’s just for Christmas.” Congratulations to Ed Miliband on this perfect one-liner. David Cameron was indeed on the back foot in the House of Commons yesterday answering questions on the Brussels summit.
The “veto” that never was and the ire of the Eurosceptics
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Sometimes I almost feel sorry for David Cameron. He really seemed to believe that walking out of the Brussels summit in December would begin to end his EU troubles. Far from it. As Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander said in … Continue r...
David Cameron appears to be engaging with the EU in a good way
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Even small-state, cut public expenditure David Cameron seemingly wants to help young people find jobs. This is excellent news which I hope will be translated into concrete action in Britain to bring down youth unemployment which currently stands at a...
Honeyball’s Weekly Round Up
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Last week an article in the Guardian claimed we are witnessing a voluntary sector glass ceiling; this is despite the Sex and Power report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission that suggested that 48% of chief executives are female. … Cont...
David Cameron increasingly looks both ways on Europe
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Balancing the responsibilities of Britain’s membership of the European Union with his feral Eurosceptic backbenchers is proving well-nigh impossible for our pull me – push me Prime Minister. David Cameron is, inevitably, being forced into U tur...
David Cameron increasingly looks both ways on Europe
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Balancing the responsibilities of Britain’s membership of the European Union with his feral Eurosceptic backbenchers is proving well-nigh impossible for our pull me – push me Prime Minister. David Cameron is, inevitably, being forced into U turns...
Britain’s (Anguilla’s) Olympic Hopefuls – Shara Proctor
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Shara Proctor has gone on an unsual journey to be part of the British Olympics team as the only woman to qualify for long jump for London 2012. Shara was born and raised in Anguilla, a very small island in the Caribbean … Continue reading ...
Britain’s Olympic Greats – Mary Rand MBE
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This week former athlete Mary Rand was granted the freedom of the city of her birth Wells, Somerset. This long called for recognition comes almost 50 years after her astounding achievements at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. In Tokyo, Mary … Contin...
Cameron’s pot has the temerity to call the Eurozone’s kettle black
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David Cameron is one of those people who never fail to take the biscuit, and his attack on Angela Merkel in Davos yesterday was a massive one covered with lashings of chocolate. Cameron had the temerity at the World Economic … Continue reading...
Olympic Organisers should not take Dow Chemical money
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Congratulations to Meredith Alexander for resigning as a member of the 13 strong Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 over the £7 million sponsorship from Dow Chemicals to install a wrap around the Olympic stadium. Head of Trade and Corporates &...
Bill Gates – Aid works: the EU needs to keep the ball rolling
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“Aid Works”. This was Bill Gates key message when he visited the European Parliament yesterday, as those of you who follow me on Twitter might have seen. During his visit I had the opportunity to ask him about what we need to … Co...
