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Morning roundup, Tuesday 5th May 2009

05May09 – 05:27

It's thirty years since Thatcher became Prime Minister, and the entire blogosphere has gone Maggie ker-AZY! ConservativeHome appears to have a "Margaret and me. But mostly meme" on, with this from John Bercow on how she inspired him to join the Young Conservatives, and Liberal Lord Alton tells all about his part in her triumphs. [...]

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Morning roundup, Wednesday 22nd April 2009

22Apr09 – 09:39

Following the announcement that the Gord plans to reform MPs' allowances in precisely the way everyone in the opposition parties and right-wing media was demanding, there has been much harrumphing from these quarters that Brown has done just that. Iain Martin of the Telegraph has a hilarious take on how this is an affront to the independence of Parliament which has already been much eroded by Evil NuLab (a myth wearily, and periodically debunked by the wonderful Phil Cowley of Revolts), and Iain Dale has received a deputation from his Total Politics staff asking if they can all have an overnight allowance too. Why? Is Shane Greer commuting from Aberystwyth or something?

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Morning roundup, Wednesday 25th March 2009: the “Cheers Merve!” edition

25Mar09 – 10:12

How do you go to economic zero to hero if you're a beleaguered Governor of the Bank of England? That's right, throw tradition to the wind and come over all, "yeah, like, the Gord's plan for further stimulus SMELL OF POO, mmkay?" just at the point at which the PM's in Yankland attempting to build a global economic consensus. Well done, Mervyn King, for realising that there's going to be an election next year and there may be bottoms of a different hue to kiss: ten points for ass-covering, zero points for subtlety.

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Morning roundup, Monday 2nd February 2009

02Feb09 – 09:38

For those of you at home because an inch of snow has brought Blighty grinding to a halt, feast your eyes on the breakfast offering from Common Endeavour: bringing you the best for teh internetz and beyond since ... well, this morning actually.

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Daily debrief, Wednesday 14th January 2009

14Jan09 – 19:01

It's almost as if we've been wafting around to strains of the Time Warp in Westminster today with talk of the return of Ken Clarke, recession blues, and references to Norman Lamont popping up in the most unlikely places. By which I mean in the Chamber as opposed to Davy Cameron's CV from whence, one [...]

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