Find out how Paul Maynard and the Conservatives will begin to rebuild trust in politics, starting with real reform of the expenses system and the removal of subsidies for MPs’ lifestyles.
Find out how Paul Maynard and the Conservatives will begin to rebuild trust in politics, starting with real reform of the expenses system and the removal of subsidies for MPs’ lifestyles.
So they’ve been published. Those famous receipts. Except most of them have been blacked out. I’ve looked at Joan Humble’s receipts – I hadn’t realised stationery supplier Viking Direct sold chocolate biscuits, and in such quantities either. I have the same problem with Jaffa cakes, but then I don’t spend public money on them … !
As
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I was knocking on the doors of Thornton the day before yesterday. I met a couple of pensioners, not just lifelong Labour voters but lifelong ‘Labour people’ for whom the thought of voting any other way was simply unthinkable. But they were disillusioned by all they had seen on the TV that day about the
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There are times when you read the paper and just think there are so many issues to blog about, it’s best just to go through them one-by-one and get it all out, so here goes:
The £12,000 payouts in Northern Ireland. Truth and reconciliation was the watchword of healing South Africa’s divisions. In Northern Ireland, truth
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So it’s that time of year again. The New Year honours. Various smiling individuals crowd our screens. Assorted lefties decry an elitist process based upon a notional myth of empire. But deep within the endless lists of the lucky, there perhaps lie some deeper truths. I’d like to say congratulations to the Blackpool winners –
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Oh Photoshop. What wonders thou hath wrought. How you seduce and tantalise. How you make me want to believe my eyes and overcome my cynicism.
Four years ago, we found out that John Kerry’s running mate was John Edwards because some clued-in employee snapped the newly-painted Kerry/Edwards campaign jet in the hangar as the paint was
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