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Back in what day?
If you mean "back in the old days" then say so.
Back in what day?
If you mean "back in the old days" then say so.
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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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- Jonathan Portes on Channel 4 News
- Elevation of Doreen Lawrence to the House of Lords
- The left is all over the place
- Nonsense talked about migration by Elena Blackmore
- The Unite union is telling us "the UK needs migran...
- Twitter abuse
- Urban myths
- This graph is fascinating, and appears to show ho...
- The Go Home posters
- I didn't think much of Skins first time round, bu...
- Very impressed with this piece by Sir Andrew Gree...
- Very interesting interview just now on Channel 4....
- Flowers and weeds among the wheat...
- Putting on one side all the sentimental coverage ...
- Theresa May has revealed that she has Type 1 diab...
- On Dateline London earlier today there was yet ag...
- Without a resident director at the moment
- The Guardian has done a guide to h...
- Michael Rosen with his anti-royal baby poem
- A modern day Zinoviev Letter
- A social duty to employ local people
- Effectively telling them that it is OK to kill people
- Caribbean nations wanting money
- Kadija Sesay is missing the point
- Jane Austen is to feature on the £10 bank note
- Falkirk
- Jamaican homophobia
- The signals sent out by the Anglican bishops
- Great Huffington Post article by Len McClusky
- My goodness, what a hipster David Wearing turns o...
- Seamus Milne's article about the monarchy
- Liar
- The arrival of the royal baby
- All those people on Twitter who keep saying "Yep"...
- It is possible that Kay Burley is our greatest li...
- Those calling longest and loudest for more immigra...
- The birth of a royal heir will also be a sublimina...
- Do I really have readers in Botswana?
- Conspirators by Michael Andre Bernstein
- Overcast all of yesterday and today, and it actua...
- Debate over whether opening the windows made thing...
- David Starkey Music and Monarchy on BBC2
- Ukrainians are suspected of bombing a mosque
- Waterlily in a pond adjacent to t...
- Jonathan Portes and the people like him will ultim...
- The human cost of people smuggling
- Jon Snow told Tom Watson MP "It's your fault"
- A talk she has just given to Eastlea Community School
- We must conclude that Robert Chote is a lying toad
- Were particular ethnic groups or people with disab...
- Who developed the Liverpool Care Pathway
- Diane Abbott talking about a subject she knows not...
- Send a bill to the southern Irish government
- Is Angela Eagle's People's Politics the same as O...
- George Monbiot on the cigarette packaging issue
- If Swinton Insurance can be fined £7.38 million f...
- Pedantic lecturing to the nth degree
- Sir Brian Jarman on the Today programme this morning
- When I hear that there is a 37-year waiting time ...
- Reading Andrew Sparrow's synopsis of the Number 1...
- Britannia
- Cigarette packaging announcement
- Civil service
- Meetings at Head Office - the past week at work
- Drink! (as Father Jack would say)...
- Richard J Evans in today's Guardian
- Bob Crow's statements earlier today
- In all the furore over the 'U-turn' over plain ci...
- Owen Jones is going soft on the revolution
- Shoes
- The suggestion that the NHS should give priority o...
- Proto-terrorist Pakistani group MQM
- Re-live the Great War 1914-18
- James Bloodworth can complain all he likes, there...
- Hazy ideas about how many BME people are in the co...
- Liam Fox's speech on immigration at CPS: http://...
- Political Levy
- Zero hours contracts should be illegal - there wo...
- "Len McClusky of Unite sounding conciliatory on W...
- They are saying very bad things
- Make no mistake, Ed Miliband will be doing us all...
- "No better than the BNP" says Labour MP Simon Danczuk
- Carelessly splitting his own party
- Falling apart at the seams
- Jiggery pokery
- Pope Francis
- Unworldly denizens of the general synod
- Ban all donations for all political parties
- The ideology of pastoralism
- Cameron's blessing
- Corruption in the Labour party
- Another resignation
- "Apparatchiks stitching up seats"
- A miasma of accusation and counter-accusation
- Lord Freud and foodbanks
- "Selling places at UK state schools to foreigners"
- BBC admits to bias
- Hipsters
- They have ALWAYS been political figures
- How many infectious foreigners are entering the Un...
- Excessively long hours for effectively no payment
- Liz Kendall MP on the issue of charging migrants
- Fantastical architecture of Ludwig II
- Oxford University Press
- Furore
- What day?
- Creating a culture in parts of London where indivi...
- Invading and eventually entirely replacing
- Most animals are given no anaesthetic
- How exactly did Trenton Oldfield get into the Uni...
- Nick Clegg (Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of t...
- A covert amnesty for illegal immigrants
- Who owns patriotism? asks Tanya Gold
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