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2 hrs ago | The Economist

Bagehot: The conjuror's bluff

TO JUDGE from the awe with which he is regarded by his rivals, Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party is a politician of wizard-like cunning.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Conservatives (UK), Labour Party (UK), Essex County, England, Greater London County, England

11 hrs ago | SYNTAGMA

Notes from Atlantis: Is Ukip a real danger to David Cameron?

The out-going leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party , Nigel Farage, is claiming that the party will have candidates in almost every constituency at the next General Election - due in March or May.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK)

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Athens Banner-Herald

Anger over Afghan war as 6 UK war dead mourned

Grieving over the death of her son in Afghanistan, the woman tore into British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Europe, United Kingdom,

Tue Nov 10, 2009

WCCO

Dead Soldier's Mum Blasts British P.M. Over Letter

Share + Nov 10, 2009 6:00 pm US/Central WOOTTON BASSETT, England 1 of 1 Britain's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown gestures during his monthly news conference at 10 Downing Street on Nov.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Essex County, England, Greater London County, England, Asia, Afghanistan

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Free Republic

Queen leads Remembrance Day ceremony as Britain stops to remember the 200 soldiers killed...

The Queen today lead the annual ceremony for Britain's war dead in the first Remembrance Sunday not attended by any veterans of World War I. As Big Ben chimed 11am, the queen joined thousands of troops, veterans and civilians in the traditional two-minute silence.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Prince Henry, Prince William

Sun Nov 08, 2009

News.com.au

Afghan war defended as Brits remember dead

BRITISH politicians and military chiefs have defended the mission in Afghanistan as Remembrance services for generations of war dead highlighted the human cost of the unpopular conflict.

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Related Topix: World News, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

IcWales

The Lisbon Treaty explained

The Lisbon Treaty on the EU's future has finally been approved, and the Conservatives have dropped their demand for a referendum.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK), Europe, World News, United Kingdom

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Northern Echo

Latest Casualty: Phillip Scott, who was described as destined for greatness

Zetland estate's gamekeeper mourns son. THE family of the latest soldier to die in Afghanistan paid tribute to "the bravest of men" last night as the Prime Minister reaffirmed Britain's commitment to the campaign.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, North Yorkshire County, England, United Kingdom

Fri Nov 06, 2009

IcNorthWales

Gordon Brown makes Airbus pledge on visit to Broughton

PRIME minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to ensure Airbus remained the biggest manufacturing plant in the UK.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

CPJ Press Freedom Online

CPJ urges PM Brown to investigate Farrell rescue

The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 10 Downing St. London, U.K. Via facsimile +442079250918 Dear Prime Minister Brown: The Committee to Protect Journalists wishes to offer our condolences on the loss of British Parachute Regiment Cpl.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Asia, Afghanistan, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Wed Nov 04, 2009

BBC News

Labour MP urges Afghan withdrawal

A former Labour minister has called for the "great majority" of British troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Terrorism

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Sky News

Tories Abandon Referendum On EU Treaty

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague has said a Tory government will not hold a referendum on the EU Treaty.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK), Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Entertainment

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Gordon Brown rules out Lockerbie public inquiry

Gordon Brown has ruled out holding a public inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing. By Simon Johnson , Scottish Political Editor Published: 12:48PM GMT 01 Nov 2009 The Prime Minister was accused of "political cowardice" after arguing in a letter to victims' families that it would be "inappropriate" for the Government to launch such an investigation.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom

Daily Express

Forces crisis? Get rid of the Captain Darlings, says ex head of the Army

BRITAIN'S Armed Forces are bloated, with too many mid-ranking officers sitting behind comfortable desks duplicating work done by their counterparts and civil servants, according to the former head of British forces in Afghanistan.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

Newsday

Accepted to University at age ...

The national flag of United KIngdom.... The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

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Related Topix: Labour Party (UK), Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Journalism, Fife County, Scotland,

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Bank of England suggests financial shake-up

The Bank of England governor wants banks to separate their retail and investment arms.

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Related Topix: Getty Images, Media

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Canada.com

Recession lingers in United Kingdom

Britain's economy contracted in the third quarter of this year, quashing hopes the downturn was ending and instead marking the longest recession on record.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

UTV

Four-party talks needed - Empey

Sir Reg Empey told his party conference that Ulster Unionists should be included in negotiations if they are to support the devolution of policing and justice powers.

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Related Topix: Sinn Fein, Conservatives (UK)

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Recession shows that enterprise must return to our neglected regions

Britain may still be "better placed" to pull itself out of recession but it is no thanks to Alastair Darling or his Government Who was it who said, in March last year, that Britain was "better placed than other economies to withstand the slowdown in the global economy"? The same man who now has to explain why the British economy is still in ...

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK), World News, United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire County, England, Alistair Darling

Thu Oct 22, 2009

East Anglian Daily Times

Leaders finesse their MPs

LAWS in the United Kingdom are rarely retrospective from the date of enactment, but MPs find themselves being presented with payment demands aimed at clawing back money which they legitimately claimed in good faith under rules in operation at the time.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Home Gardening, Suffolk County, England,

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