tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73102352011-12-08T20:51:40.950ZPreaching to the converted about politics and suchlike from a LibDem law student.Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.comBlogger6521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7310235.post-26931433234591948592008-01-04T11:25:00.000Z2008-01-04T11:22:49.838Z

To www.gavinwhenman.com. See you there!

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The paucity of posts today has a very simple explanation: I've been working on my new website over at www.gavinwhenman.com. Yes, that's right, I'm so vain I've even set up a site using my name as the domain. I'll put up a placeholder tomorrow directing people to the new site, but after three and a half years, this post will be the last proper one written for the Whiskey Priest (I'm also dropping

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Wit and Wisdom is inviting suggestions for what Nick Clegg's nickname should be. Ming was Merciless, Cameron calls himself Dave, and Gordon is not Flash, so what should Nick be? I'd like to be the first to suggest "Tosspot". Nick "Tosspot" Clegg does have a certain ring to it and would bring back into fashion what has become a much-maligned swearword. Re-engineering this phrase for the 21st

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Just spotted this on the BBC News website, from their coverage of the New Years Honours: Perhaps [Tom] Kelly's most difficult moment came during the "cash-for-honours" affair, when he failed to tell the press that Mr Blair was being interviewed by the police, having not been told himself. This little mishap (which was hardly his fault, after all), pales somewhat in comparison to the time he

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Anybody else noticed how obsessed the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives are with each other, at the expense of attacking Labour? From the Clegg / Cameron debate through to donation rows and instant-a-fisking of policy proposals (and not-so-instant-a-fisking), the two parties (or rather, their activists, it has to be said) can't take their eyes off each other. If the political system was a

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The 150th* Britblog Roundup is now up on Redemption Blues and my post on the Gender Balance Awards gets, well, it gets a roasting (and not in the good way) from The Chameleon (as well as on this week's BBC Pods and Blogs). Since I saw the post yesterday, I can't help thinking of two words that perfectly summarise the opposing argument laid down by The Chameleon. I've been debating whether to post

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Barely 12 hours to go before another new year rolls around, predictably enough coming almost 366 days after the last one. Another year of floods in the summer, partisan punch-ups in Parliament and Ant and fucking Dec to look forward to. Doubtless there will be something new to make the year seem less monotonous than it actually is, I've got my money on Simon Cowell finally disappearing up his own

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Continuing a long tradition (is it a tradition if I've only done it once?), here are my favourite posts of 2007 My Reply to a pompous email: I'd forgotten how silly my response was. But I think his final word was just a bit unfair. An explanation of how the media works. In a rare display of courage, I post the banned photo of David Cameron. I struggle to install a printer on Windows Vista.

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Slate, one of those online magazines that we can't seem to do over here (possible exception: The First Post), has compiled a top ten list of legal howlers from the Bush White House for 2007. Here are the headings: 10. The NSA's eavesdropping was limited in scope.9. Scooter Libby's sentence was commuted because it was excessive.8. The vice president's office is not a part of the executive branch

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And not for services to the Labour Party.

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Will Howells has meme tagged me to come up with some nominations for the Gender Balance Awards. This, I was shocked to discover, isn't about honouring hermaphrodites that blog (Gender Balance... they've got it as they have both male and female genitals. No? Fine, you try writing something witty after gaining three stone in four days) but rather honouring these wee little ladies that have both the

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Thanks to Mr Eugenides for linking to my post on our glorious new leader (subtitle: sticking the knife in early) in this week's Britblog Roundup. The Realpolitik podcast also got a mention.This is probably my last post before tomorrow, so Merry Christmas one and all!

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As promised on the podcast, I've placed a bet on the US Democratic primaries: Richard's gone for Hilary Clinton at odds of 2/5.

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Shane Greer has asked me to reveal my desktop to the world, so here goes (click to enlarge): I tag: Will Howells Richard Holloway James Graham A Very British Dude Maggie Bob 

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (or "Madge" to her friends, in homage to her favourite character from a popular daytime soap), today becomes the oldest monarch the UK has ever had. The Onion takes a look at one of her greatest achievements:

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This week's Realpolitik podcast is now available here. In the show: This podcast gets a mention on BBC Radio Five Live’s Pods and Blogs, thanks to Matt Wardman. Nick Clegg is the new leader of the Liberal Democrats. Is a progressive alliance with the Conservatives in the offing, and what about that god thing? The US Presidential race, Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris. Somehow, our data ends

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After today's press coverage of Nick Clegg's win, criticising his 50.6% win on a 64% turnout: "Labour today squeezed back to victory in yesterday's general election by the narrowest of margins, taking just 35.3% of the vote, with the opposition grabbing 64.7% on a turnout of just 61.4%. Serious questions are being raised about Labour's mandate to govern, with many calling for a reform of the

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Sticking the knife in good and early... Proving that white, middle class men can finally go far in our society, after decades of discrimination and underachievement, Nick Clegg has been elected leader of the Liberal Democrats by a margin so thin as to be insignificant - 511 votes. On the bright side, under the Florida system of counting, Chris Huhne would have won. Last month, I wrote about

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A welcome change, but is it permanent? Because I certainly hope that this design for the Lib Dem party front page, which has only gone up in the last hour and a half, sticks around: Very Web 2.0 and certainly more attention grabbing than the previous offering, which can still be viewed here. PS. Free punch in the face to the first person who cracks the joke "A welcome change, but is it permanent

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And writing as someone who voted for him (final mention of the Duncan Borrowman monitor, I promise), well done to the chap. Lib Dem Voice has the results breakdown, the young one squeaking in with 50.6% of the vote, just 511 ahead of the Huhney monster. He kicked off his leadership with a sturdy, but not exactly inspired (unlike Ann Treneman's coining of the phrase "Winter of Disc Content" in

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Google avoiding controversy anyone: With the main roads and towns in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia showing up on Google Maps, the company has taken the decision merely to mark out the Green Line in Israel - Palestine, probably in an attempt to avoid endless emails from the two sides disputing the details.

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Meaning rather than just putting up a transcript, I can actually post it here, hooray!

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In this week’s Realpolitik podcast, spot the obvious technical flaw as myself, Richard and an old friend of ours, Alex Baker, discuss: Canoe Man and the world’s most incompetent case of fraud. Should we be locked up for 42 days without charge as Jacqui Smith plays detention lottery. Should we nationalise Brighton Rock, Led Zeppelin or even Northern Rock? Wind could power all UK homes… if

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Via, once again, the Daily Irrelevant: Click to enlarge, four-eyes.

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Those of us who signed up to the Clegg campaign on Facebook received a message Monday imploring us to change our profile picture to show we've voted for the dark-haired handsome one. Responding to this diktat, James Graham has had the bright idea of putting one erect middle digit in the air and changed his picture to this: Serves them right for ordering us around I suppose.

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Maybe I'm just in a Christmas mood, but this story from BBC News has got such a real, heartwarming tone to it that everyone should take five minutes to read it and consider the power of persistence, hard-work and education to change a life: A Kenyan slum child inspired by finding a Manchester University prospectus on a rubbish tip says he is overjoyed to realise his dream of getting a degree.

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Via the Daily Irrelevant, stick with it, it gets very good: Now, is today (13th) the 12th day (13 + 12 = 25), or was it yesterday, as some of my friends maintain?

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Today's PMQs, aside from a cutting remark by Vince Cable (well done that man), also featured yet another misleading statement from our Right Honourable Prime Minister: The Prime Minister:... On pensions, this Government have brought in the winter allowance, and that is why millions of pensioners are getting the winter allowance this Christmas. The Winter Fuel Payments were introduced in 1998 (I

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My local MP, James Clappison, has responded to my recent fax regarding Guantanamo Bay (long story short, I asked him to support Amnesty's campaign to close the facility, he didn't want to, I told him why he should). I disagree vastly with him, of course, but fair play to him for taking the time to respond, and very quickly in the case of this letter: Click to enlarge. The classic liberty /

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The Christmas card video from the White House this year features Bush's poodle meeting um... Bush's poodle*. Transcript: FORMER PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR: Congratulations Barney and Miss Beazley on becoming Junior Park Rangers. Well done. As someone born in Edinburgh, Scotland, it's always good to see the Scots doing well. (Barney looks at the camera, tilts his head and a "boing" sound effect

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From today's Times: Officials admitted yesterday that, following a risk assessment, there was only an 80 per cent chance that the Games would be delivered within the £8 billion ODA budget In other news, the world is "only" 70 per cent water and that canoeist was "only" 99 per cent lying.

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Here's the fax I've sent off, via the invaluable WriteToThem, in response to the letter earlier this month from my MP in which he supported Guantanamo Bay: Dear James Clappison, Thank you for your letter dated 26th November 2007 regarding your decision not to support Amnesty International’s campaign to close Guantanamo Bay. I can appreciate that, as your constituent, I should not expect you to

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Ten years ago we didn't worry too much about religion, well, unless we lived in Northern Ireland and wanted to know which bunch of Christians to lock up (the Catholics, for those playing the home game). Today however, the news is full of religion, whether it be a teacher imprisoned for calling a teddy bear Mohammed, the annual "war on Christmas" or just the general religious nuts kicking the shit

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Amnesty International have put up a petition on the Prime Minister's website against Government plans to extend pre-charge detention for certain criminal suspects to the Adams-esque 42 days. Hat-tip to Liberal Conspiracy.

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At Prime Ministers Questions on Wednesday, Gordon Brown made this rather astonishing claim: "Crime is down by 30 per cent. under this Government. Burglary is down by 55 per cent.; violent crime is down by 31 per cent. and there are 4.5 million fewer victims of crime as a result of the changes. We have more police than ever before. We have built 20,000 prison places, and we are about to announce

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I'm mightly pissed off I missed the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy reference in the Government's latest plans for pre-charge detention of certain criminal suspects when I blogged about it yesterday. To make up for it, and courtesy of Beau Bo D'Or: The first six minutes of last night's Newsnight also heavily parodied / paid homage to the original Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy television

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The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has deemed that forty two days should be the new limit placed on the detention without charge of certain criminal suspects*. After first arguing for 90 days, then 56, bumping that up to the much luckier 58 days, it's anybody's guess where 42 has come from, although a source inside Jacqui Smith informs me that her bra size is a whopping 42DD**, and so she could have

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With the writer's strike in the USA now entering its umpteenth week, John Oliver presumably doesn't have much to do as The Daily Show enjoys an unexpected hiatus, so he's taken to producing The Bugle podcast with Andy Zaltzman for the Times Online. It's dedicated to bringing you the latest world news ... and some of it might even be true. Well worth a weekly listen (dammit, I couldn't think of a

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The new Realpolitik podcast is now available here. In this week's show: The "Teddy Row Teacher" comes home. The National Anthem lyrics are questioned, and should we have a new British motto? Will the Scots break free from the imperialistic hold of the hated English? Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons programme anymore, says the US National Intelligence Council- and we agree to place bets

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As I've mentioned before, section 64 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill will make it an offence to possess an "extreme pornographic image" not just in the cases (rightly) where the persons in the photograph have not consented to the act, but also (wrongly) where they have consented. Iain Roberts on LibDemVoice has been asking whether our MPs are going to be opposing this legislation and

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From The Onion:

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Via The Daily Irrelevant: Not insulted enough? Then shove this through your optical receivers, making its third appearance on this blog, because apparently this issue won't curl up and die:

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The USA has been up to their old tricks again, this time claiming that they have the right to invade the UK and forcibly remove someone from our territory. Via Iain Dale comes this Sunday Times story: "[The United States of] America has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. A senior lawyer for the American government has told the

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Thanks to Philobiblon for linking to this post on counter-terrorism in this week's Britblog Roundup.

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On LibDemVoice for this post. Cheers!

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I sent a fax via WriteToThem to my local MP, James Clappison, a couple of weeks ago asking him to support Amnesty's campaign to close down Guantanamo Bay. I received this rather disappointing response today: So, by implication he supports torture, extraordinary rendition and the detention without trial of persons on severely questionable legal grounds waiting for a war with ill-defined goals to

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Thank you BBC, thank you. Now if only you could allow me to download programmes in Firefox, all would be good in the world. That is all.

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Harriet Harman has claimed that by accepting a donation from Janet Kidd (which really came from David Abrahams) in good faith, she has complied with the law, so it's worth remembering what the law actually is on donations. I quote from the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, section 54: (1) A donation received by a registered party must not be accepted by the party if— ... (b)

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The new Realpolitik podcast is now available here. In this week's show: Gordon Brown confirms those donations were unlawful, as Pickled Politics wonders whether the Brown Premiership is coming to an end and Guido Fawkes reveals an unblocked business park. BNP leader Nick Griffin and holocaust denier David Irving speak at the Oxford Union. Jonny Wright offers his first hand perspective, and

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Unfortunately she's not been reinstated (full details here), but her website is now back up and running, so you can listen to those spoof announcements in full.

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The frequently infrequent No Shit Sherlock award makes a welcome return today. The lucky winner is Civitas, with their startling revelation that NHS care favours the middle class. I quote from the BBC News: Mr Seddon [author of the Civitas report] said this was partly attributable to the fact that middle classes were more assertive, articulate and confident in dealing with health professionals.

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The final leadership hustings of the race took place last night (27th November) in London and here is my exclusive report, jotted down throughout the night: Arriving Arriving early, all us poor unfortunate undecideds were accosted by the various members of the opposing campaign teams and told why we were wrong to not to have chosen sooner, with leaflets, stickers and even DVDs shoved under our

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Extract from a memo written in 2002, regarding the US government's use of torture in interrogations: Yes, that's right America, you're not allowed to know what it is your President can and cannot do. Perfectly good reason I should imagine - if you found out you probably wouldn't vote for him. But still, thanks for playing. And that last part of the paragraph is utter bollocks. Under the Geneva

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According to the BBC, Emma Clarke, the voice of the London Underground (the one that tells us to mind the gap and suchlike) has been sacked. By pure coincidence, she's recorded a series of spoof announcements. The full page is offline at the moment, but you can listen to a sample on the BBC website. I think they might feature on tonight's Realpolitik podcast. Talking of London Underground,

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After 11th September 2001, the world suffered a collective failure of common and declared war on an abstract noun: "terrorism". The British Government joined in this intellectual insult and decided to do the terrorists job for them by introducing a range of counter-terrorism measures available from the "you couldn't make it up" shelf. One of my personal favourites was detention on the grounds of

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Thanks to Jonathan Calder for linking to this post on Nick Clegg (and a history of leaders) in this week's Britblog Roundup.

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From the New York Times: So... None from Iran then.

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Too cool for words: That doesn't satisfy you? Then try this on for size:

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Explanation: "Senators have left town for the Thanksgiving holiday, but the Senate will technically stay in session — a move that keeps President Bush from making appointments while lawmakers are in recess [so called "recess appointments"]. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said he would schedule “pro forma” sessions during the two-week break, even though lawmakers will be absent

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Well, just about... ... but I've almost nudged him off the top (the offending post is here).Oh yes, and on the Duncan Borrowman monitor I'm (if you can't be bothered to scroll all the way down my sidebar) firmly undecided.

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The new Realpolitik podcast is now available here. In this week's show: The Government’s Black Tuesday as 25m personal records disappear somewhere between Tyne and Wear and London. The Northern Rock crisis rumbles on as no-one wants to buy them. Ken Livingstone wants to expand the still embryonic London Overground. The bid to get Boris Johnson to number 1 in the singles chart - there’s even a

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The morning after the 3.30pm statement before, I'm still flabbergasted by this single paragraph: "Two password protected discs containing a full copy of HMRC's entire data in relation to the payment of child benefit was sent to the NAO, by HMRC's internal post system operated by the courier TNT. The package was not recorded or registered. It appears the data has failed to reach the addressee in

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A stirring passage by Lord Hoffman from the 2004 Belmarsh prisoners case, on the question of whether the life of the nation is threatened by terrorism: "This is a nation which has been tested in adversity, which has survived physical destruction and catastrophic loss of life. I do not underestimate the ability of fanatical groups of terrorists to kill and destroy, but they do not threaten the

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Continuing my run of pissing on the tent from the outside... I feel I've been too harsh on old Huhne these past few days, so fuck it, let's give Clegg a well-deserved kicking too. The way I see it, if I attack them both, I'm bound to be in for job with whoever wins - I'm an equal opportunities bastard. It's also Monday, and I like to be mean on Mondays. A long time ago there was Paddy. And he led

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Government propaganda more like. Hat-tip to Richard Holloway for showing me this laughably bad mini-game that fails to present how policy is made in government in a realistic way - for instance, where's the quiet word with the PM one hour after you make a gaffe on the Today Programme? Still, got to commend them for trying.

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Thank you Norfolk Blogger, thank you: Anyone else wondering why Chris Huhne had his banner photo taken in a stable? Maybe those are hooves he is standing on, who knows... Can you get flip-flops for horses? Interrupting that wildly divergent line of thinking - the ambush on the BBC Politics Show this afternoon: worth a giggle wasn't it. Sorry I'm not taking it too seriously like some, but you've

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Continuing my run of pissing on the tent from the outside... Remember when I discussed the leadership candidates' websites so very long ago (ok, last month) and I criticised just how green the site is. Well, he's continued it with his leaflets - hey, at least he is being consistent. But that's not the reason I'm blogging, this is: I've been staring at this for the past day, and I can't quite

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I feel like Bill O'Reilly when I say "The assault on Christmas has started early this year", but here goes, via The Australian Daily Telegraph: Santas across Sydney are rebelling against attempts to ban their traditional greeting of "ho, ho, ho" in favour of "ha, ha, ha". Recruitment firm Westaff - which supplies hundreds of Santas across the country - has told its trainees that the "ho ho ho"

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Back in late 2005, and in the wake of the 7/7 bombings, the Government asked Parliament to extend the period certain types of criminal suspects* could be detained without trial to 90 days and lost. This was the first time Tony Blair was defeated in the House of Commons, but the House agreed to extend the limit to 28 days and the measure was eventually promulgated as a part of the Terrorism Act

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A single meeting with the Prime Minister, if this BBC report is to be believed: During the Today programme interview at 0810 [still available here], former Admiral Lord West said he still needed "to be fully convinced that we absolutely need more than 28 days". "I want to be totally convinced because I am not going to go and push for something that actually affects the liberty of the individual

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The new Realpolitik podcast is now available here. In this week's show: Bird Flu - the end of civilisation? Brown’s “hard-headed internationalism” and other such bland rhetoric. Is the West going to war with Iran? Cameron’s council tax referendums. Cameron (again) and rape involves careful tip-toeing… and is rape a political football? Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is finally involved in a cover-up

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Via the BBC: A court in Spain has convicted Manel Font de Vila, the editor of the popular satirical weekly magazine El Jueves, and cartoonist "Guillermo" of "damaging the prestige of the crown". Both men received a hefty 3,600-euro (£2,539) fine. Their offence was to have published a cartoon last July making ribald fun of the heir to the Spanish throne, and of the government's scheme to

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From Iran and the US to something just a bit more local: Hertsmere Borough Council, situated in the delightful commuter belt county of Hertfordshire. As one might expect, the council is run by the Conservative Party (28 seats), with the Liberal Democrats as the main opposition (7 seats), and Labour (4 seats) not too far behind. So, that gives the Tory party a 17-seat majority and boy, have they

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The USA, and possibly this country, could be heading to war with Iran, for all the reasons we've head before in relation to another Middle East country – Weapons of Mass Destruction, links to terrorist atrocities and a dictator generally hell-bent on destroying Western civilisation. Some people say that the US has real concerns about Iran and the stability of the world, but personally I believe

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Via The Daily Irrelevant:

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Not for you, but for those who need it most, just by playing a simple (but addictive) vocabulary game. According to the BBC, enough rice has already been donated to feed 50,000 people, so appease your guilty Western conscience and give a little.

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Thank you so very very much Adam for pointing me towards this:

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Something I wrote and never finished whilst very bored at the beginning of the year when there was a lot of hype about Apple's (then just announced) iPhone. Posting now as the iPhone is being released in the UK tonight at 6:02pm (on the 02 network, natch), it's based on the Mac vs. PC cinema adverts we all know and loathe: Mac: Hi, I'm Mac and I wanna tell you about the new iPhone, out summer '

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From the BBC: "A senior Israeli minister has called for the sacking of Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog. Deputy PM Shaul Mofaz said the Egyptian head of the International Atomic Energy Agency had endangered world peace by neglecting Iran's nuclear programme." As the story notes, Israel is a member of the IAEA, but not the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - this is for a

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Call from the Halifax today: Call centre: I just want to ask you a few security questions, is that ok? What's your date of birth? No, no that is not fucking ok. You called me. The onus is on you to prove who you are, not the other way around. If you're so confident that the number you have dialled is for me, you shouldn't be asking any questions - otherwise, don't call the fucking number. How

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I'm worried that this range of Ku Klux Klan clothing isn't selling as well as they could, so I hope they don't mind that I've put together a bit of copy for them to try out in their next round of advertising: Afraid you're not projecting the correct mix of hatred and racial purity to mark yourself out as a winner in the evolutionary race? Worried that you're neighbours and colleagues see you as

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Via (as ever) the Daily Irrelevant: (click to enlarge)

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Darren Reynolds, writing on LibDemVoice: "According to the Office of National Statistics, every day about 1,400 people die in the UK. Of these, about 440 are from heart disease, 370 are from cancer and 260 are from diseases of the brain or stroke. Beyond that, there is death and great suffering caused by a huge range of other illnesses. Of the total number of deaths, precisely none are from

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Bored whilst filling in a medical questionnaire: Do you undertake any regular sport or exercise? If yes, what and how often: ... regular bouts of hilarity cause stomach muscles to seize up in pain. Think I'm being flippant? Well, you're probably right, but check this out.

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Now available over here, in this week’s Realpolitik: The surprisingly short Queen’s speech leads to a surprisingly long discussion. ID Cards and whether MPs should refuse to carry them. Was Enoch right and are all Conservatives racists or do they just have legitimate concerns about immigration? Raising the education leaving age to 18. It’s treason to use a postage stamp upside down.

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Peter Brookes of The Times has found that elusive joke:

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There's got to be some joke connecting the unveiling of Tutankhamun's face and the sacking of a Tory candidate after he endorsed Enoch Powell's views on immigration, so stick with me:  "We've decided to call him Enoch""The true face of Conservatism"New Home Office Figures Suggest up to 1 million blackened corpses could flood our shores: Daily Mail. Ok, that didn't seem to come to anything. I

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From Thought Leader, after this suppressed story caused foreign media outlets to erupt in fits of giggles that the English High Court could tell them what to do: If you want to guarantee the identity of a high-profile individual being revealed, then please ensure you take the following steps: Obtain a gagging order in their country of origin. Warn the media and the internet community of dire

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The Vulcan makes a good point: "On November 5th we remember that terrorism in the name of religion is not a new problem. We should also remember how this plot was foiled. It was not intercepted through the issue of ID cards. The police or army did not spot the plotters carrying huge barrels of gunpowder into a cellar. It was not prevented by a cordon of oak or iron - today’s concrete and steel -

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Richard Holloway and I have recorded the first of what we hope will be the first of many podcasts on politics, the media, politics and the media and anything else that takes our fancy. We've pretentiously decided to call the series "realpolitik" and the first show, "The DL Show", can be listened to or downloaded here. We hope to release a new one every Tuesday (this week's is a one-off delay

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From Mary Riddell, in today's Observer, slips up in what is an otherwise persuasively argued piece on the dangers of a war with Iran and the alternatives open to the world: "Hundreds of thousands have died in Iraq in a war waged to wipe out non-existent WMDs. This time round, the intelligence is just as thin, but the Tehran weapon, unlike the phantom Baghdad bomb, is a real and dreadful prospect

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Via the Daily Irrelevant:

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From the BBC, "President" Musharraf has thrown his toys out of the pram and resorted to bully-boy tactics: Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has declared emergency rule and suspended the country's constitution. Troops have been deployed inside state-run TV and radio stations, while independent channels have gone off air. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who condemned the moves, has

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Following on from last week's McCann based joke that never aired, here's some that didn't make it into tonight's Vox Politix: Top Ten lies about Heather Mills 5. In an ironic twist of fate, touching her fake leg cures leprosy.3. She kidnapped Madeleine McCann.2. Whilst appearing on the US version of Strictly Come Dancing and during a particularly tricky allegro heel turn her fake leg flew off

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Zero Punctuation, a funny and fast weekly look at gaming:

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At last... Just a shame the conviction was on health and safety grounds, rather than corporate manslaughter and appears not to have been for actually shooting Jean Charles de Menezes, but for failing to shoot him earlier. And a fine for the Met, which of course will be paid for by the taxpayer (I would say "by us", but then I'm a student). Pickled Politics makes a good point: Lets fine the Met.

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Via the Daily Irrelevant:

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This and this have absolutely nothing to do with one another, not a single thing.

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Apparently the main picture that appears on Nick Clegg's website rotates. Here are some of my favourite:  "... of pointing... and looking." "... especially 12-year-olds, because he's one of them." "... that can bore the pants off any MP" (or just insert "mass" where appropriate). "... All the way to Sheffield, where the really poor and elderly live." (seriously, was the bingo hall closed that day

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The websites of the two Lib Dem leadership candidates have settled down to what looks to be their "final design" and I thought now might be the time to deconstruct them to see what they tell us about the pair... and possibly to lightly rip the piss out of them too. Chris Huhne's Chris2Win.org The first thing that strikes me: It's just so green. See? And I get that he is trying to convey the

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