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> Switch off the mind and let the heart decide >  who you were meant to be >  >   - Thomas Dolby, Windpower Let's get one thing clear to start with; I like wind turbines...

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The number of people who are unaware that the UK has lost its prestigious triple-A rating with Moodys must be pretty damn near zero. But does it really matter? On a day-to-day basis invest...

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So the preferred routes for the extensions to HS2 north from Birmingham have been published. Looking in detail at the route from Sheffield to Leeds it would appear that the line is going to cros...

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PERHAPS LIFE IS JUST THAT... A DREAM AND A FEAR. - JOSEPH CONRAD For Boeing the 787 Dreamliner would appear to be Conrad's quote made real. But perhaps, just perhaps, Boeing are architects of ...

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I started this blog the best part of 9 years ago, in the days of the war on terror  (and other abstract nouns), Blairism (an extension of Thatcherism but with more PFI and public spending and th...

http://www.theuktoday.co.uk/2012/12/back-from-dead-in-manner-of-speaking.html

Well, that's alright then. Nick Raynsford is threatening to cap council tax increases to ensure that rises don't exceed 6%. While that is half the percentage increase of last year, it is still n...

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Looks like the Conservatives have come to their collective senses, and decided to pull out of the Butler whitewash . Taken them a while, but they finally seemed to have cottoned on to what the re...

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As someone who has grown up hearing about the Troubles on the news as a child, being caught in bomb scares in London, etc, there always seemed to be a perception of the IRA and Sinn Fein as the b...

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Obviously the only thing green about the UK Armed Forces is some of the camouflage, especially if their objection to wind farms is anything to go by. Apparently any wind farm within 45 miles of ...

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Westminster City Council and the Met have brought a new meaning the word Audit. According to them, auditing beggars in Westminster involves arresting, finger-printing, taking DNA samples and the...

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So Tony once roughed it on a London park bench , having travelled there to try and become a rock star. Or at least that is what Cherie would have us believe. Once again, Tony is portrayed as a ma...

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Good old Clare Short. Not only does she recieve a threatening letter from Cabinet Secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull, warning her not to give interviews regarding the bugging of Kofi Annan, but she w...

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Each week I will try and find the most pointless, ill-defined or biggest waste of money public sector job. Because although there are many necessary roles in the public sector, there are also tho...

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This country must really hate people who apply for citizenship. Why else would we subject them to a brass band playing Phil Collins songs? That constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in my boo...

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Whether or not you agree with breaking into a military base, surely there is something wrong with the legal process when a person can spend more time on remand awaiting trial than their actual se...

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Who the hell paints the inside of their airing cupboard? Ours is probably typical, stuffed with a hot water storage tank, a tangled mass of pipework and shelves loaded with horrible pink towels a...

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So Robin Cook believes Clare Short was wrong to make the UN bugging allegations. Does he truly believe this, is it more a case of sour grapes that Clare has upstaged him as the voice of oppositi...

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The legacy of the war in Iraq will probably haunt Tony Blair to his dying day. Every day something else seems to emerge from the shadows. Now we have a deputy legal advisor from the Foreign Offi...

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Is there no end for Bliar's misery over intelligence and Iraq? Hopefully and in a word, no. Had he been open and honest about the reasons for war right from the beginning, then more people would ...

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So the decision not to prosecute Katharine Gun was not political. Well, I'm sorry, but I don't believe it. If she'd broken the OSA then that would have been grounds for prosecution, and after al...

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Got to smile at this story from Wales . Not so much for the trial by media aspects, but for the fact the each of the 4 main parties in the Welsh Assembly had an AM involved. It does like one bene...

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I thought hospitals were places where you went to get better. Over the last 10 years, the risk of getting worse has gone up with the increase in cases involving MRSA . I wonder whether such an in...

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At a time when every media article about the BBC seems to highlight either past failings or future uncertainties, a bit of good news. The BBC has won the Zayed Prize , an environmental award wort...

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Getting communities involved in promoting local branch lines is good, and will undoubtedly benefit the routes in question. At the end of the day though, it is still window dressing which fails t...

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So today, in Brent Town Hall, the UK will hold its first ceremony for immigrants granted British citizenship. Seems like a pretty good idea, though it does make one wonder about all the people p...

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