tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11299978384991846932011-07-20T12:22:55.324+02:00Occasional political ideas of a former Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate.TAGilbertnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129997838499184693.post-29481159436033201632007-10-22T19:27:00.000+02:002007-10-22T20:55:55.593+02:00

Just a week after Ming Campbell's resignation as Liberal Democrat leader, its interesting to see Senator John McCain 'winning' Sunday's Republican Presidential nomination debate.Part of McCain's appeal was what Washington Post correspondent Chris Cillizza calls 'his trademark wit'. And the target of this wit? Why, it was Mr McCain himself, 'poking fun at his advanced age in a question on Social

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The mainstream media has been feverishly speculating about the possibility that Gordon Brown will call an election this Autumn.All the main political parties seem keen to stoke the rumours, too. But that is only so that they can tap their richer donors for early cash. Cash now will enable them to set up their call centres and campaign headquarters, and to send out more target letters and surveys

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The case of Mr Chindamo, the murderer of headteacher Mr Lawrence in north London in 1996 has provoked significant debate in the media this week, after it was decided at a Tribunal that he could not be deported to his country of birth upon release. That well known 'liberal' Mr Cameron, scented blood, and within a few hours, the odious Mr McNulty, Minister for Security, Counterterrorism and the

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Prominent among the critics of British Airways' carbon offset scheme is Tory MP for South Suffolk, and Chairman of the Commons Environmental Audit Committee, Timothy Yeo. The failure of BA to market the scheme adequately is, he claims, "little short of scandalous".Constituents of Mr Yeo's will recall that his commitment to protecting the environment did not always run so deep. He was once banned

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I find it extremely worrying that some Muslim posters on the BBC's current World Have Your Say debate seem to think ALL Western liberals are immoral, fail to care about their extended families and children, are sexually promiscuous, etc.Clearly their ARE examples of this is Western Liberal cultures, and arguably some of the problems are worse than in more religious societies.But it seems that

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