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President Barack Obama has been sworn in for his second term. Obama and VP Joe Biden were sworn in at a small private ceremony, to keep with the constitutionally set date of January 20th. The public inauguration will take place tomorrow.
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The hostage crisis in Algeria takes centre stage this morning.
Read moreThe Gentleman of the Lobby have traipsed to Amsterdam to see David Cameron deliver a speech, which due to the ongoing terrible situation in Algeria has been postponed. Now, of course, I don’t want to make light of something that is actually quite serious,...
Read moreIt's sleepy time so we're off to hit the hay! See you at 8am for more #TescoTweets — Tesco Customer Care (@UKTesco) January 17, 2013 Whoops.
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Ed Balls loves to make his flatline gesture every time the Chancellor speaks. However, Mark Thompson has crunched the data and created this graph, that shows how the Coalition have a far fairer tax system than the 13 years of Labour government. As Mark...
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When oh when oh when are politicians going to realise the internet is public, that people can see their stupidity? Today’s latest internet idiot is Lib Dem MEP Sir Graham Watson, who decided this was an appropriate contribution to the debate on Algeria...
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We’ve finally, finally, approached the eve of David Cameron’s Europe speech. It’s all written on bits of paper and everything. With the ongoing hostage crisis in Alegria, this is beginning to look more and more ill informed. We have a situation in which...
Read moreMary Ann Sieghart has a fantastic column in the Independent today, laying out the huge significance of the lack of women in the Lobby (the body of journalists that report on the House of Commons.) Some of the stats are truly woeful – only one in five...
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So, it’s happened again. Those terrible free market liberterian types have rigged the Lib Dem Voice poll, handing victory to Sam Bowman of the Adam Smith Institute. Teeheee Succeeding the IEA’s Mark Littledwood, Bowman was in the leader from the beginning,...
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