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Welcome to David Cameron's world, where failure is rewarded with a peerage
David Cameron giving out 26 peerages to political cronies is an embarrassment, and makes the need for House of Lords reform even more crucial than it was before.
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The Jeremy Corbyn victory scenario: confrontation or cooperation?
The issue of how the one-time Labour mainstream responds to a Corbyn victory is the central question among its MPs. By Patrick Wintour.
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Financial Support for the People: The U.K. Labour Front-Runner’s Controversial Proposal
British MP Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a “quantitative easing for people” that has critics crying hyperinflation and supporters saying, “It’s about time.” - 2015/09/03
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Five real life stories that will change what you believe about homelessness in the UK
The figures around deaths of benefit claimants following ‘fit-to-work’ assessments released recently were alarming but sadly not surprising. Benefit claimants have been the victim of a compulsively negative rhetoric over the last five years, where the use of terms such as ‘scroungers’ and ‘skivers’ are commonplace.
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Labour’s Dead Center
Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time leftist dissident, has won a stunning victory in the contest for leadership of Britain’s Labour Party. Political pundits say that this means doom for Labour’s electoral prospects; they could be right, although I’m not the only person wondering why commentators who completely failed to predict the Corbyn phenomenon have so much confidence in their analyses of what it means.
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Binmen to stop collections due to families leaving wheelie bins facing the wrong way
DUSTMEN are threatening to boycott collections because families are leaving the handles of their wheelie bins pointing “the wrong way round”.
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Anger at David Cameron’s £100,000 trip to honour dead Saudi king
Cost of visit to pay respects on death of King Abdullah sparks anger as it underlines UK links to kingdom amid human rights concerns
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Corbyn in the Media
‘Corb snubs the queen,’ ran the headline on the front page of the Sun on 16 September, in response to Jeremy Corbyn’s tight-lipped participation in the singing of the national anthem at a commemoration of the Battle of Britain... By Paul Myerscough.
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Reform tax credits with a Negative Income Tax, says new report
The government should replace tax credits, Jobseeker’s Allowance, the Universal Credit, and most other major welfare payments with a single Negative Income Tax, according to a new report from the Adam Smith Institute, Free Market Welfare: The case for a Negative Income Tax. This Negative Income Tax (NIT) would act as a minimum income guarantee for all British citizens and be tapered away as people’s earnings rise through work.
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Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new [UK] laws
Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to under the Investigatory Powers Bill. By Tom Whitehead.
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Cynthia Payne, madam - obituary
Brothel keeper dubbed ‘Madam Cyn’ who was jailed after holding sex parties in Streatham [UK] in exchange for ‘luncheon vouchers.’
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Assad says Britain's Syria strikes 'illegal', will only fuel terror
Britain's bombing campaign against Islamic State extremists in Syria is "illegal" and will only cause "terrorism" to spread, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published Sunday. "It will be harmful and illegal and it will support terrorism as happened after the coalition started its operation a year or so (ago)," he told The Sunday Times after British MPs voted on December 2 to join the US-led bombing campaign over Syria. "You cannot defeat (IS) through air strikes alone.
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Thousand year old tradition of printing Britain's laws on vellum has been scrapped to save just £80,000
The thousand year old tradition of printing Britain's laws on vellum has been scrapped to save just £80,000 a year despite concerns from MPs about ending the historic practice. The House of Lords have confirmed that from April all legislation will printed on simple archive paper instead of the traditional calfskin vellum. All of Parliament's legislation and some of the country's most important historical documents have been printed on vellum...
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Fund run by David Cameron’s father avoided paying tax in Britain
Panama Papers reveal Ian Cameron hired Bahamas residents, including a part-time bishop, to keep offshore company exempt
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David Cameron admits he profited from father's Panama offshore trust fund
PM sold stake in Blairmore investment fund, which featured in Panama Papers, for £31,500 four months before entering No 10
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David Cameron's terrible week ends with calls for resignation over Panama Papers
David Cameron was in Washington rubbing shoulders with world leaders, sun-tanned and relaxed after a holiday in Lanzarote, when an email revealing what the Guardian knew about his father’s tax affairs dropped on Conservative HQ. From that moment, the prime minister would have known there was a serious risk of people finding out about the £30,000 of shares he previously owned in Ian Cameron’s offshore investment fund.
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How Personal Attacks Let David Cameron Off the Hook Over Tax Loopholes
Dave managed to talk about his poor dead dad, which meant the real issues around tax avoidance weren't the story. By Gavin Haynes.
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How the economy is stagnating after a year of Tory government in 6 charts
On 7 May 2015 - exactly a year ago - David Cameron’s Conservatives won a surprise majority in the general election, their first outright majority since 1992 under John Major. That meant the Tories could govern the country free of any coalition with another party. So how have they used that power? And how has the economy performed? Below we look at what’s happened to the economy under the past 12 months of Tory Parliamentary hegemony.
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Leave campaign rows back on key immigration and NHS pledges
The leave campaign has appeared to row back on key pledges made during the EU referendum campaign less than 24 hours after the UK voted for Brexit, after it emerged immigration levels could remain unchanged. Leading Brexit figures had disagreed throughout the campaign on issues including immigration, free movement and the cost of the UK’s EU membership.
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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Brexit Update (HBO)
The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, and it looks like it may not be an especially smooth transition.
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