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Rewarding Excellence?

// Cabinet ministers have been quietly approving hefty pay rises for some of their own special advisers while freezing or imposing sub-inflation increases on the pay of millions of other civil...
09:00 Sun 16th Mar 20144 answers, last by mikey4444 12:34 Sun 16th Mar 2014
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Linda, Sandy And Elaine. Your Names Are Blasphemous In Saudi Arabia

// Saudi Arabia bans 50 ‘blasphemous’ and ‘inappropriate’ children’s names The list of names contradicting the Kingdom’s ‘religious and cultural norms’ includes several foreign names....
08:15 Sun 16th Mar 201414 answers, last by ludwig 19:06 Sun 16th Mar 2014
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Israel - The Jewish Homland

// David Cameron will arrive in Israel on Wednesday under pressure to acknowledge the country as the Jewish homeland. Groups representing some British Jews hope Mr Cameron will acknowledge Israel’s...
11:14 Wed 12th Mar 201467 answers, last by naomi24 23:30 Sat 15th Mar 2014
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Three Or Four?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10677285/BBC-Three-Jack-Whitehall-and-Matt-Lucas-defend-channel-against-cost-cutting-measures.html...
19:53 Wed 05th Mar 201422 answers, last by Bazile 15:05 Thu 06th Mar 2014
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Living In 'ethnically Diverse' Areas Makes People More Tolerant

This seems to confirm my own observation. I have noticed that people who seemed most threatened by immigrants tend to live in areas with the least number of them....
12:20 Tue 04th Mar 201422 answers, last by tonyav 21:57 Wed 05th Mar 2014
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Are The Tories Preparing To Lose The Election?

Apparently, the Chancellor George Osborne is urging Boris Johnson to get elected to parliament before the election in 2015. Johnson is London Mayor until 2016. Osborne wants Boris onboard, so that...
14:44 Sun 02nd Mar 201419 answers, last by Gromit 11:42 Tue 04th Mar 2014
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How Wolves Changed Rivers In Yellowstone National Park

Remarkable little film... ....
11:23 Sun 02nd Mar 20144 answers, last by anneasquith 18:51 Sun 02nd Mar 2014
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Nazi Sympathisers

The papers today carry a story of a 'genius' spycatcher who infiltrated nazi sympathisers during the war. The story is interesting, as is its conclusion. The sympathisers came from the aristocrisy and...
08:48 Fri 28th Feb 201481 answers, last by emmie 17:11 Fri 28th Feb 2014
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Has The Government's Immigration Policy Failed Dismally?

// A shock rise of more than 30% over the past year in net migration to Britain to 212,000 has dashed Conservative hopes of meeting their target of reducing the figure below 100,000 by the time of...
13:18 Thu 27th Feb 201432 answers, last by emmie 18:42 Thu 27th Feb 2014
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Floods Of Cuts.

// Research by the official House of Commons library found that the amount spent on flood defences between 2007 and 2011 was £2.37billion, while the amount spent between 2011 and 2015 will be...
11:20 Wed 26th Feb 20146 answers, last by divebuddy 18:44 Wed 26th Feb 2014
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Collapse Of Ira Man Trial

The trial of the alledged Hyde Park bomber was halted after his defence revealed a letter from the police that promised he would never face criminal charges for the attack. // On Tuesday, a judge at...
10:16 Wed 26th Feb 20143 answers, last by New Judge 19:10 Wed 26th Feb 2014
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Revenge Of The Egghead

Seemed like quite a good format. I think I liked it, did you?...
19:31 Mon 24th Feb 201411 answers, last by methyl 00:36 Tue 04th Mar 2014
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Success For 12 Years A Slave At Baftas

12 Years a Slave won best film with its star Chiwetel Ejiofor winning best actor. Yippee, hope everyone is happy with that :-)...
01:35 Mon 17th Feb 201421 answers, last by ChillDoubt 15:03 Wed 19th Feb 2014
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Still In The Trough

// Cabinet minister Maria Miller is under mounting pressure as expenses watchdog criticises her for claiming more than £90,000 in taxpayers' funds on second home lived in by her parents. //...
22:25 Sun 16th Feb 201411 answers, last by Peter Pedant 10:22 Wed 19th Feb 2014
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Neknominate

Are national newspapers being irresponsible by encouraging this dangerous craze. // A woman stripped down to her underwear in a supermarket before downing a can of beer for a NekNominate challenge....
14:50 Mon 10th Feb 201491 answers, last by emmie 17:21 Tue 11th Feb 2014
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Enemies Of Democracy?

Not unexpectedly, The farce that was the EU Referendum Bill has run of time in the Lords meaning it will not become law - yet.  If was stopped by Labour and LibDem Peers who the Conservatives have...
04:59 Sat 01st Feb 201414 answers, last by kadencemarvin 08:39 Sat 20th Oct 2018
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Longest Period Of Falling Wages For 50 Years

// Real wages have been dropping consistently since 2010 - the longest period of falls since at least 1964, official figures show. Real wages calculate earnings when the rising cost of living, or...
14:08 Fri 31st Jan 201415 answers, last by mikey4444 18:06 Fri 31st Jan 2014
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Another Tory Rebellion - Cameron Saved By Lefties

David Cameron was humiliated in parliament last night by a rebellion of his own MPs. A motion by a back bench MP attracted 85 rebels to defy the party. The motion was easily beaten but only after...
11:19 Fri 31st Jan 201442 answers, last by Quizmonster 11:37 Sat 01st Feb 2014
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Record Low Crime - Do You Belueve It?

// Overall crime fell by 10% in England and Wales in the year to September 2013, official figures show. // That is the lowest figure since the survey of police data started in 1981. We are living in a...
13:46 Thu 23rd Jan 201419 answers, last by Mojo-Jo-Jo 00:49 Fri 24th Jan 2014

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