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Cutting the pork
Americans call public spending that they don’t approve of “pork”. Apparently the term comes from the…
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What’s next for the UN
The excellent Suzanne Nossel at Democracy Arsenal proposes ten next steps for the United Nations. It…
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Doing ourselves a favour and trade negotiations
One of the more widespread pieces of rampant stupidity is the language of trade “negotiations” in…
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Doing Business and Poverty Reduction
The World Bank’s Doing Business survey is a comprehensive annual analysis of which countries are the…
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A Speech He Could Not Make Today
So New Labour plans to introduce a new offence of publishing a statement which “glorifies, exalts…
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Pledge-a-picketer
I just love this idea. Religious fundamentalists are picketing a planned parenthood health centre in Southern…
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Fuel protests
Read Chris Dillow at Stumbling and Mumbling who explains why the fuel protests are misplaced.
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One step forward, two steps back
World leaders will be asked to approve the Outcome Document agreed at the United Nations General…
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Do I feel less of a man?
I see from my website logs that somebody in Edinburgh typed this into Google: can a…
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Extraordinary Rendition
I do not understand why extraordinary rendition is not causing more outrage in the UK. Read…
