During the Bush administration car bumper stickers in America used to pose the question “What Would Jesus Do?” or WWJD? Very often the answer was assumed to be “Invade Iraq” which may not stand up to too much biblical scrutiny. Now across American rightwingers are asking “WWRD?” What would Reagan Do? The right...
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American rightwingers are asking ‘what would Reagan do?’
As trade figures fall, is there an economic plan C?
The really concerning aspect of today’s trade figures is not that the £8bn deficit in goods trade is an 18 month low. It’s that this figure has occurred over two years after the pound depreciated by 25 per cent. Clearly you would expect to see a boost to exports by now. It is...
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Northern Ireland: where does Cameron go now?
Even by pre-election standards, the abuse Labour is throwing at David Cameron over what happened at Stormont today is pretty hot stuff. Mr Cameron’s Ulster cousins in the UUP (now joined in an electoral pact for Westminster elections) abstained in the critical vote this afternoon on whether to devolve justice and policing to...
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The scourge of porn
A judge friend of mine tells me the bar is awash with stuff about the Bulger murderer Jon Venables. The ’stuff’ relates to what has been alleged in the Sun newspaper – that the re-identified Venables is back in jail for accessing level four child pornography. The suggestion that this may be the...
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Met drops Lord Paul expenses investigation
Lord Paul has disclosed that he’s had a letter from the Metropolitan Police saying that they have dropped their investigation into his expenses . The allegation was that he had claimed tens of thousands of pounds for overnight stays at a one-bedroom flat in an Oxfordshire hotel citing it as his main home. Other...
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