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MI5 has some explaining to do if the Woolwich attackers were known threats
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 01:45 PM
If, as now seems likely, the two terrorists who carried out the barbaric machete attack on a British soldier in Woolwich were known to MI5, then senior officers at the Security Service are going to have a lot of explaining to do. While David Cameron this morning refused to be drawn on whether the two [...]The Republicans’ worst nighmare: losing Texas and becoming extinct. Could it really happen?
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 01:39 PM
Republican senator Ted Cruz thinks he knows how to prevent Texas being swamped by demographics. The Senate amendment he is proposing on immigration reform would deny all illegal immigrants access to benefits and a pass to citizenship. The context for Cruzs intervention is what Greg Abbott, the Republican Attorney General for Texas, last month described [...]Brilliantly embellished boobs and Eastern promise at the Gottingen Handel Festival
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 01:30 PM
The extent to which great composers can be blind to the failings of bad libretti is a constant source of fascination, not to say entertainment. And Ive just been hugely entertained by a performance of Handels oratorio Joseph and his Brethren at the Gottingen Handel Festspiele in central Germany. If you dont know Joseph you [...]Treat the Woolwich attack like any other murder. Turning the killer into an anti-hero risks creating copycats
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 12:21 PM
There was an act of terrorism in Woolwich yesterday. An act which will stay burned into the national consciousness for years. A horrific act, but an undeniably effective one. It wasnt what you may think it was. It wasnt the vicious murder of a man in south-east London by two young British Islamists. It was [...]Nigel Farage “sounds credible” because of EU olive oil ban
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 12:14 PM
After Bruno Waterfields cracking story about the EU trying to ban olive oil on restuarant tables, Harry Cole has a tale about conkers. The story has rattled cages, including that of Anne-Marie Trevelyan Writing as @annietrev, she comments on Twitter: And we wonder why Farage sounds credible when we are locked into this madness?! @MrHarryCole. [...]As the market panic demonstrates, central banks are stuck on a treadmill of money printing
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 12:03 PM
Oh what a tangled web central bankers weave when they practice to deceive Last nights panic in Tokyo, where the Nikkei dropped a stomach churning 7 per cent, demonstrates just how difficult its going to be for the worlds central banks to exit their loose money policies. Its not even as if Ben Bernanke, chairman [...]Newspapers were right to publish horrific images of the Woolwich terror attack
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 11:15 AM
Havent the terrorists won, and succeeded in communicating their message, when today every newspaper in the land carries images of the appalling scenes in Woolwich? Alongside the pictures are quoted the rantings of one of the alleged perpetrators. While I understand the concerns being aired, ironically, on social media which is usually the wild [...]Jeremy Hunt is taking on GPs. Remember that the BMA is a trade union like any other
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Mostly, I blame Doctor Findlay, though we journalists havent helped either. Journalistic convention abhors repeated words, so when were writing about, say, GPs, the second reference to GPs generally has to be something other than GPs. The favoured alternative term for general practitioner is family doctor. Is there a nicer, cuddlier phrase than that? Who [...]
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