The Bunker: The last days?

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Old Holborn: Is The Lid Finally Coming Off Gordon’s Head?

Old Holborn:  Is The Lid Finally Coming Off Gordon’s Head? ( Also cross-posted in Anna Raccoon – Cross posted from Anna Raccoon – original article by John Ward of NotBornYesterday) The health denials that emanated from Downing Street throughout Autumn 2009 are now revealed in almost every detail as a tissue of cynical lies from [...]

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F**kwittery Corner: Crikey, we can’t do as we “likey”….

Some mornings I get up and I find that the idiots have been behaving themselves – but not so this morning. The Telegraph reports: Businessman arrested over ‘anti-gypsy’ email he did not even write The 45-year-old IT company manager, who does not want to be named, was arrested in front of his wife and young [...]

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The Law Society Gazette podcast : Jonathan Goldsmith, Secretary General of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)

The Law Society Gazette podcast : I talk to Jonathan Goldsmith about the role of the CCBE, the Akzo Nobel case on in-house counsel, the new Justice Commissioner and the opportunities for lawyers in Europe. Jonathan Goldsmith is the Secretary General of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents over [...]

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Law Review: Home Plodiens rides to the rescue and other matters.

While I would not go as far as Chris Grayling, shadow home secretary, in the Kill a Burglar stakes, I do think that Hertfordshire HomoPlodiens have lost a sense of proportion with this case, reported in the Independent. Police warn TV star over knife Independent: Myleene Klass was said to be “aghast” and “bemused” today [...]

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Dr Who votes Labour?

Regular readers know that I am vaguely interested in politics. I shall not, however, transmogrify into a political blogger.  Rex Charon MP, my morally bankrupt brother from the unelectable wing of the Tory party (who crossed the floor when he saw the lie of the land), is quite capable of handling such political commentary as [...]

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A matter of principle or principal?

The news last night from the Daily Mail was rather grim. I do not usually read the Daily Mail;  preferring to get my news on politics from the main newspapers, bloggers and commentators. The Daily Mail is serialising former secretary-general of the Labour Party, Peter Watt’s book. The Mail headline… Brown’s election shambles: Man who [...]

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POSTCARD FROM REX CHARON MP

I am grateful, at this time of the ‘Great Snows’, to be offered the opportunity by my brother Charon QC to speak directly to you…the people of Britain. While my brother persists with the delusion that he is a socialist, I take a rather more pragmatic line. It is certainly true that I became an [...]

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Charon’s Mad Rioja Party

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If you want a modern, compassionate Conservative, go for the real thing…I am it

I always did enjoy that quote of David Cameron’s from some time back.  I may have overdone the lunchtime drink…. me, that is… not Dave. UPDATE Whatever your political leanings: GuyNews is out with a Save our Gordon edition Dear god… I’m even in it at the end!

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Rive Gauche: The Photoshop airbrushed edition

Would you believe it…Friday 8th January already. This morning, BBC Breakfast News treated us to the quite remarkable spectacle of a roving reporter demonstrating that snow  on ice below can be very slippery.  She didn’t fall, she solemnly demonstrated how slippery the pavement was by sliding her foot across the ice.  I became ‘outraged of [...]

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Law Review: Oink, morally unacceptable tax evasion, and a watchdog ducking the MP expenses issue

Barely five working days into 2010 and we have had an attempted coup against a sitting, albeit unelected prime minister, a prospective prime minister who can’t seem to get his own manifesto policies straight, a nation under siege from television reporters, notably from BBC News 24, assaulting us almost round the clock with news about [...]

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Breaking News: Prime Minister has full support of Baron Mandelson…

The Guardian reports Peter Mandelson likely winner as Gordon Brown moves to tighten grip

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Cameron touchy about being touched up?

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I couldn’t stop myself…. Beam me up Scottie

I really could not resist this photograph from The Vulcan’s / John Redwood’s own photostream on Flickr Hat Tip to @BristolRed

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Onions reduces the South Africans to tears and other matters….

If you would like to keep up to date with reports direct from Helmand, Afghanistan – this is the place to do it: What Winning Looks Like The Mongoleers: How would you like to drive in a 1.2 litre car from Goodwood to Mongolia? This is fun – the idea, at any rate, if not [...]

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Law Review: A snowstorm in a teacup or …”If you are Brutus…then Caesar would be OK tonight”

Gordon Brown survived the attempted mutiny by the Hoon-Hewitt axis of incompetent plots – although the political hyperventilators on TV  were able to extract just a little bit more angst by filming  David Miliband giving a lukewarm response ‘hours later’.  Baron Mandelson of Foy etc etc…went onto Newsnight to give a calm, assured and only [...]

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The day in view: Putsch, snow and BBC News 24

I’ll come to the snow later. The ‘plot’ to ‘settle the leadership’ broke just after PMQs at lunchtime today.  Carl Gardner, author of The Head of Legal blog, has penned an interesting piece for the Wardman Wire. With customary precision, Carl takes us through the constitutional issues, discusses the prospects of Crudas, Miliband and others  [...]

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Tories digging it….

I was amused when I saw this picture posted on Twitter by @ericpickles, Chairman of The Conservative Party. “@EricPickles In the spirit of bi-partisanship we feature two Labour politicians on our next poster” The Tory bloggers have been running amok – some with style and panache – at the attempted putsch by ‘serial plotter’ Hoon [...]

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Immediate ballot on future of prime minister

Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt launch new Gordon Brown challenge Times: Two former Cabinet ministers have today launched a last-ditch attempted putsch against Gordon Brown. Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt have written to all Labour MPs calling for the leadership issue to be sorted out “once and for all”. A source close to the former [...]

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