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Sun Setting?

Hope not because it would bring down the Times too but there is chaos driven by the lawyers in New York trying to head off investigations under the foreign Corrupt Practices Act which would torpedo the share prices.
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Put Upon Poms

I’ve always struggled to understand the English. Even though I am. My New Zealand friends say that we don’t really like each other. It’s a question of class. Every Pom has class sensing antennae to detect by accent, dress, and behaviour the class of every other and like or dislike them according.
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God Save The Lib Dems. Clegg Won't.

Why are the Lib Dems losing Cabinet Ministers at twice the rate of the Tories and so fast all Lib Dems will get and lose ministerial jobs if it goes on?
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The Queen and I

Sixty years ago today I turned up at the Council Offices in Baildon to hear the Queen proclaimed. In rain turning to sleet, Howard Moore town clerk announced ‘The King is dead long live the Queen’, rolled up his wet proclamation and went back inside.
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Telegraph supresses defence of MPs

Last Thursday I wrote a letter to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph criticising an article by Sue Cameron writing as a civil service hack to criticise Parliamentary Select Committees for doing their job.
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Civil Service Conjuring

Public Accounts Committee enquiry into Massacre of government bodies brings out the new reduced role of the civil service. Tories come in promising a bonfire of quangos most of which are inexpensive advisory bodies.
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