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- Andrew Amesbury. In this blog some names have been changed, some places have been disguised and some characters have been obscured. But the essential truth remains. You can e-mail me on andrewamesbury@live.co.uk
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- Jan Vertonghen interviewed by David Hytner
- Nick Cohen in today's Observer
- Easter Sunday
- Have just been outside with the dogs. The Easter...
- I am hardly ever bored, which is good - the past w...
- Council of Europe's human rights commissioner Nils...
- Pompeii by Bastille (directed by Jesse John Jenkins)
- Good Friday
- Big sky
- Nussbaumtalk: "It's true that all elections are ...
- Perhaps David Cameron should say publicly that an...
- Bibliocide
- Is it solely a matter of self-identification?
- One of the most exciting statements I have read al...
- A gloss on Zoe Williams and the article "Tories wa...
- Labour candidate for South Shields
- Bruges Group meeting on 23rd April
- Buffer overflow
- A classic hard-left reaction
- Former minister Barbara Roche was being disingenuous
- Ken Loach has called his new movement "Left Unity"
- Nigeria
- They need to tell the world
- A welfare state neutralises the risk of migration
- The grey walls
- The People's Assembly
- I worked hard without making much progress - the p...
- Mr Shariatmadari does not seem to know much
- Buy-to-let
- Dateline London earlier today
- Falling by HAIM
- Now is the time for Turkey to step forward
- Characters invented by Baron Munchausen
- Another defamation
- David Starkey is on This Week, which should be wo...
- Whales are killed in the most disgusting way imagi...
- Cri de coeur from Denis Skinner MP
- Today is the Feast Day of Thomas Cranmer
- A Barber boom is better than no boom
- Family breakdown is leading to personal lifetime f...
- How does British Future define these people?
- Splits on the left barely even register
- Prada
- Sonia Purnell's provocative book
- The establishment replicates itself
- Bonnie Greer
- Quote from John Maynard Keynes: If the Treasury ...
- Fellow traveller
- Ealing Town Hall
- Lancashire "bottom muffins"
- Kings Cross
- St Patrick's Day
- Appear friendly and helpful but agree to nothing -...
- The bedroom tax was a Labour idea
- The Pan-STARRS comet
- Housing for the "working class"
- The bedroom tax
- The Justin Timberlake live perform...
- A friend, who has several times told me he is an ...
- Immigration and Trust in Politics in Britain by La...
- New Economics Foundation event today: What next f...
- Denis Skinner MP
- Typical of the permissive 1960s and 1970s
- Integration
- Singer-songwriter Bridgit Mendle...
- Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has recently quoted cl...
- Mughal India exhibition at the British Library
- Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Junior
- Is nothing sacred?
- Mothers' Day
- The LRC view on Justin Bieber
- Nation-critical skills
- Somehow the task never got done - the past week at...
- International Women's Day
- Hopi Sen
- Pop music is "serious"
- Was there something special about Hugo Chavez
- David Aaronovitch's Twitter posts
- Displacement effect
- Absolutely central to the left's strategy
- Chocolate
- Knowingly provocative
- Nothing will be done in any practical sense
- Individuals in the public sector
- Be honest
- Concerns about migrants are not legitimate
- Generation Rent
- Wake the country up
- Rachel Lichtenstein talking about the Hidden World...
- European Court of Human Rights
- Endless prevarication - the past week at work
- (Excitedly said to a third party) "Has it occurre...
- Conversation between Dr Eoin Clarke and Andrew Gwy...
- You me at six video for Reckless
- "It means we will have to do some kind of pre-ele...
- St David's Day
- Sheffield is to close the Don Valley Stadium
- All they can do is extract, exploit, and throw away
- The Liberals had a twenty year hegemony in Eastle...
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