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You know it’s not a police state when…
Read more: You know it’s not a police state when…… a petition for the Prime Minister to resign is the outright most popular petition on his own website: Magnificent yet terrible: how long must we wait?
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Bankrupt Britain: 340 people go bust every day – Times Online
Read more: Bankrupt Britain: 340 people go bust every day – Times OnlineA human tragedy unfolds: BRITAIN is facing a bankruptcy timebomb with a record number of individuals and companies predicted to go bust this year. Begbies Traynor, the insolvency and restructuring group, reckons more than 35,000 firms could go…
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Andrew Lansley MP on “Preparing to deal with swine flu”
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“The Pretence of Knowledge”: how economists come to make astrologers look good
Read more: “The Pretence of Knowledge”: how economists come to make astrologers look good(Update: This post is attracting significant traffic, so I have indicated three Austrian-School primers throughout the text. Please click the images for the publications.) It seems everyone is talking about swine flu and the financial crisis, but they…
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A great victory: Brown defeated over Gurkha rules
Read more: A great victory: Brown defeated over Gurkha rulesGordon Brown’s government has suffered a shock defeat in the Commons on its policy of restricting the right of former Gurkhas to settle in the UK. MPs voted by 267 to 246 in favour of a Lib Dem…
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Bright yellow landscape
Read more: Bright yellow landscapeYellow field, Brize Norton, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. It was necessary to walk to the pub. This field was spectacularly yellow in the sunlight.
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Czech Senate Sets Lisbon Treaty Vote For May 6-7
Read more: Czech Senate Sets Lisbon Treaty Vote For May 6-7The Czech parliament’s upper house will vote on the European Union’s Lisbon treaty at a May 6-7 session, a spokesman said on Thursday, in what is widely seen as a tight vote after the government’s collapse last month.…
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Simon Jenkins: Swine flu? A panic stoked in order to posture and spend | Comment is free | The Guardian
Read more: Simon Jenkins: Swine flu? A panic stoked in order to posture and spend | Comment is free | The GuardianInteresting comment at the Guardian, but people are taking this very seriously: We appear to have lost all ability to judge risk. The cause may lie in the national curriculum, the decline of “news” or the rise of…