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Daily View 2×2: 12 March 2010 - Welcome to Friday – and Lib Dem Voice is already in Birmingham for the Liberal Democrats Spring Conference 2010. If you’re coming too, make sure you join u...

So it's Sarah Brown v Samantha Cameron | Alexander Chancellor - Will the leaders' wives really bring their husbands electoral popularity? I'm not so sure So now Samantha Cameron is to be let off the leash – or maybe d...

YouGov vs AR: Is it all down to the weightings? - YouGov Angus Reid When you get two polls, apparently so far apart as YouGov and Angus Reid, it’s very hard to come up with an explanation except by digging...

“I’m Not a Politically Correct Feminist, but…” - In a campaign worthy of Jo Swinson it seems Nadine has declared war on London buses displaying 14ft ads of half-naked women trying to flog underwear. “It i...

Iran threatens genocide yet again - The Jerusalem Post reports: The Palestinians and the nations of the Middle East will be rid of a ‘bad omen’ once Israel is annihilated, Iranian Presiden...

The Daley Dozen: Thursday - 1. Tom Harris on a tale of two memoirs. Handbags between two Biteback MP authors. 2. Simon Clark on the successful blogging campaign to free Nick Hogan. 3....

Memoirs are made of this - DANIEL Kawczynski is not a happy camper. Shewsbury’s Tory MP has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, to complain that Paul ...

Expenses Mayhem! - "It wasn't even like this for Amy Winehouse." Those were the words of a security guard at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court after the mayhem whe...

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Labour: lurching towards where it always has been - Lurch, according to my dictionary, is an archaic or dialect intransitive verb, which means ‘to prowl or steal about suspiciously’. Seemingly its sole use i...

Contra Stimulus! - “I do not think that word means what you think it means” The Princess Bride Most of the “big names” of the Labour/Left Blogosphere, (Including Will Straw,...

C4 News Video - Gordon Brown is lying over defence spending. - Now we have the truth. Our Generals have said that Gordon Brown cut defence spending, a former head of the MOD said that Gordon Brown had cut defence spend...

Ad space in LA in place difficult to miss? - God I love eBay and entrepreneurship. They are awfully big aren't they?

The case for a second stimulus - I am a signatory to a letter in today's Guardian, coordinated by Colin Burgon MP, which makes the case for a second stimlus, particularly for long-term inv...

Letter to the FT (Financial Times) – Amendment 120A Digital Economy Bill - Dear Sirs, We regret that the House of Lords last week adopted amendment 120A to the Digital Economy Bill. This amendment not only significantly changes th...

Cameron's judgment is on the line - The row over Lord Ashcroft's tax status continues to rumble on. The Tories point out that Labour is hypocritical on the issue because we have taken money ...

Cameron hires Maoist sympathiser? - This is a story that you file under the heading "WTF?!!" ObamaWatchNews tells us that David Cameron is hiring a Mao-praising leftist adviser to Barack Huss...

Sally Bercow Gets it Wrong - I must admit I’ve never found myself getting very excited about Sally Bercow. For sure, there are many Tories who view her as evil-incarnate. But frankly, ...

[Blogs] A tory expenses claim: The Duck House - The Telegraph has a photo of one Tory's view on what £1,645 of MP expenses should cover: [image: The 'Stockholm' duck house] Sir Peter Viggers wins (so...

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