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  • Liberal Democrats reveal election slogan

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    • 15:37
  • Seen a sneak preview of @pinknews general election poll that's out on Sunday. Ve...

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  • Mesh Chhabra | Labour being a bit shy over condemning Unite strike. Are they too busy counting ...

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  • @stephenctimms is running 45mins late and apparently there's no chance of a cup ...

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  • Political Scrapbook | Gordon Brown stars in hilarious Tory shoot ‘em up computer game!

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    • 13:58
  • My first time

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  • Paul Waugh | Sarko won't have Sun on his Xmas card list. Refuses to answer another Q re Carla...

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  • Paul Waugh | Sarko gets snarky re Brit hacks Qs re marriage to Carla. "I love Britain. Don't ...

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  • Krishnan Guru-Murthy | ouch! sarkozy furious at journo who asked him about the rumours of his private a...

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  • James Plaskitt | #gordonbrown and Sarkozy meeting in #number10 to discuss the #robinhoodtax. Hope...

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  • Lord Paul Drayson | I'm working on Labours "science manifesto" now. Please tweet yr ideas & views. I...

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  • chris dillow | Tax-dodger, moi?

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  • Paul Waugh | Sarko in No10 presser: "Whenever I have talks with Gordon Brown I feel enriched ...

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  • David Blackburn | Do these slogans hit the mark?

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  • Diane Taylor | The bigger picture on asylum | Diane Taylor

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  • Richard Bacon | BBC logs 'just under 8,000' complaints about plan to close 6 Music http://bit.ly...

  • Iain Martin | Watch Liam Byrne’s lips: No new tax rises

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  • stephen_green7@sky.com (Daily Referendum) | SHOCKER! Labour's biggest backer Unite to Strike - Gordon Brown says nothing.

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    • 13:24
  • Paul Waugh | Gordo just told Sarko that we have an "entente formidable". Groan.

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  • Ruth Barnett | iPhone Wars: Labour Launch App

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  • ConservativeHome | Eric Pickles calls for the Electoral Commission to give Returning Officers an "u...

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  • Richard | Party political games

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  • Downing Street | No10: Watch the PM's press conference with President Sarkozy, starting shortly: ...

  • Bagehot | The hardest case

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  • Mark Wadsworth | "Lib Dem election slogan promises more hilarity and confusion"

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  • lucy manning | BA strike worrying those travelling close to Easter fearing. One friend said "Br...

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  • Lord Paul Drayson | My team at BIS have responded to over 1,000 emails just on the "science principl...

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  • Keep porn out of politics?

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  • John Redwood | Regulators have always made judgements

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  • The power of the celebrity Tweeter

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  • Dave Hill | Elections in Hounslow: bad news for the Keens

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  • The digital election: Should we prepare to be spammed?

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  • Iain Roberts | Lib Dem Lords offer concessions on Digital Economy amendments

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  • In (further) praise of Andrew Adonis

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  • Daniel Korski | RIP EDA?

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  • Will Straw: Social media is about reaching out and empowering your activists

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  • Phil Reynolds | 'Change’, ‘future’, ‘fairness’ – is the Lib Dem slogan different enough?

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  • Ed Jacobs | UUP-Tory alliance a “mongrel relationship”

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  • Adrian Michaels | Germany wants to punish the euro offenders

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  • That LibDem logo in full

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  • Sally Bercow | No I am not depressed coz of BA cabin crew strike. Am disappointed tho'. With BA...

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  • Kevin Maguire | Lib slogan "Change That Works For You. Building A Fairer Britain" covers Lab's "...

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  • Adonis shows the way on transport, and debates

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  • Iain Dale | The LibLabCon Election Slogan as Perfected by the LibDems

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  • Paul Waugh | How long will it be before the Tories point up links between BA strike union Uni...

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  • lucy manning | no charges for baroness uddin cps decide

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  • Patrick | Are Labour planning to cut police numbers?

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  • Tim Montgomerie | If I could only follow six Twitterers, they'd be @StephanShaxper, @SamuelCoates,...

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  • David Blackburn | At last, the Tories get organised

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  • freethinkingeconomist | Banning CDS – a veritable linkfest and stout opinion

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  • Dizzy | Epic Logo Fail

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  • George Eaton | Tory jitters as poll lead falls to three

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  • Alistair Darling being sent Gordon's

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    • 10:27
  • Iain Dale | Porn director Lib Dem candidate 'supports the Labour party'

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  • Gorbachev, twenty five years on.

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  • Patrick | Friday’s fact-check round-up

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  • Sara Mojtehedzadeh | Caption Competition

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  • Brian Walker | Why George Bush made rthe call to Cameron

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  • Douglas Carswell | Lost in translation

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  • Robert Peston | Lehman: How it disguised its frailty

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  • Tom Harris MP | Just got an email from ConHome headlined: "Should Cameron be more angry?"

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  • BBC Radio 4 Today | FSA chief outlines "proactive" new approach and says Tory FSA plans would be "di...

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    • 09:31
  • Enter Ken Clarke...

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  • Parmjit Dhanda | BNP to be allowed to work as teachers? I wouldn't want any extremist teaching my...

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    • 09:25
  • Charlie Whelan | Sun joins smears on me and Unite. In case missed Sun poll Labour 3 behind Tories...

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    • 09:23
  • This Mother's Day, don't let the Tories keep mum about workers' rights

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  • Alex Barker | The full text of the Lib Dem “triple lock”

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  • Emma Boon | MPs still troughing truffles!

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  • Dylan Sharpe | A small victory for common sense

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  • ConservativeHome | Coulson and Hilton 'join forces' in Tory election team

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  • Gerald Warner | Climategate: the IPCC's whitewash 'review' is the AGW camp's biggest mistake yet

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  • David Blackburn | Affluence for influence

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  • Shamik Das | Politics Summary: Friday, March 12th

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  • Miliband 'effectively confirms' May 6 election date

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  • ConservativeHome | Who would Lib Dem councillors favour in a hung Parliament?

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  • Unity | There ain’t nuthin’ more powerful than the smell of Tory mendacity!

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  • Tehmina Kazi | Should religious leaders tell us how to vote? | Tehmina Kazi

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  • Richard Murphy | Not just nasty; downright vicious: Tory support for vulture funds

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  • The Tory decline offers Labour the opportunity for renewal

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  • Richard Murphy | What are the Tories ashamed of?

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  • Telegraph Opinion | Greece will be saved, but what about other debtors?

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  • Calling out Cameron on CND slurs

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  • Brian Walker | The cautionary tale of the field marshal MP for North Down

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  • ConservativeHome | Quangos: A cull for some, taming for others

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  • Tim Worstall | But, but, this was the right thing to do!

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  • Betting markets: Tory majority of 18

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  • There's no substitute for policy thinking and campaigning

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  • Aluf Benn | How Bibi lost a best friend | Aluf Benn

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  • Next Left | So who's really playing politics with the Ashcroft peerage inquiry?

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  • Daniel Hannan | Brussels is run by and for lobby groups

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  • John Redwood | Travelling safely

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  • ConservativeHome | Should David Cameron be more angry about Labour failures and failings?

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  • Archbishop Cranmer | David Laws on faith schools and the Liberal Democrats

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  • Paul Waugh | Nick Clegg admits to GMTV that Lib Dem PPC Anna Span's porn past is "not my cup ...

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    • 07:36
  • Toby Young | Is Samantha Cameron the world's most reluctant political wife?

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  • Jon Snow | OK, so I’m biased. I shall be supporting the under-dog

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  • Alexander Chancellor | So it's Sarah Brown v Samantha Cameron | Alexander Chancellor

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  • Insurgents are local, know every compound and ditch. You cannot move fast throug...

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  • We're going to fight and win

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  • ConservativeHome | Yousuf Miah: The system of student visas needs a complete overhaul

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  • Mike Smithson | YouGov vs AR: Is it all down to the weightings?

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  • guidofawkes | “I’m Not a Politically Correct Feminist, but…”

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  • Steve Bell | What and when MI5 knew about torture

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  • Prescott: We're in a fight, and we're going to win!

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  • Kevin Maguire | Playboy offshore zillions inheritor Zac Goldsmith's "different type of politics"...

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  • Melanie Phillips | Iran threatens genocide yet again

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  • New York ties with London for finance crown

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  • Iain Martin | Whelan’s Baffling Silence on His Union’s Strike at British Airways

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  • John Prescott | Hope Labour's next Party Political Broadcast consists of 3 mins of the 'best bit...

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  • A retraction and apology to John Harris

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    • 23:47
  • Sun City | Market report | All the latest business news

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  • Guido Fawkes | Quote of the Day: Kelvin MacKenzie said… “Brown is a compulsive liar, he has no ...

  • John Prescott | Just recorded this clip on YouGov/Sun poll - Con 37% (nc), Lab 34% (+2), Lib Dem...

  • Gaby Hinsliff | changed my mind about men on the #bbcqt panel: it's the audience who has the pow...

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  • Allegra Stratton | No new taxes or VAT rise in budget, says Treasury minister Liam Byrne

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  • Guido Fawkes | Quote of the Day

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  • Simon Jenkins | The bankers lied. And Darling, a mere puppet on their string, knows it | Simon J...

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  • #bbcqt Justine Greening just referred to her leader as "Cameron". What happeded ...

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  • BBC Question Time | Justine Greening MP says neither she, nor the shadow front bench, will be taking...

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  • Wondering why we have Caroline Flint representing us? Why not @HarrietHarman ? C...

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  • BBC Question Time | "I believe that we should know as much as possible about Jon Venables" - Kelvin ...

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  • James Lyons | why is angus reid so out of line?

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  • Iain Dale | The Daley Dozen: Thursday

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  • Telegraph Opinion | What do we want from the NHS?

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  • Is the Tory lead really just three points?

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  • Mike Smithson | CORRECTION: Angus Reid Tory lead up 1 to 13. C39-L26-LD18. YouGov 37-34-17

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  • 3 points. 3. Bring. It. On. #GameON

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  • Mike Smithson | But PB/Angus Reid has the gap widening to 13 points

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  • Tom Harris MP | Heading to the BBC to be interviewed on "Newsnicht" about high-speed rail. Again...

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  • Anthony Wells | YouGov Daily Poll – 37/34/17

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  • Mehdi Hasan | It's defeatist nonsense to talk of a crisis of leftwing thinking | Mehdi Hasan

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  • Iain Dale | More Chaos at Maidstone Hospital

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  • Alex Thomson | Astonishing ambition of Nato hopes for the Afghan army

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  • Tom Harris MP | Memoirs are made of this

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  • Michael Tomasky | A Democrat disgrace | Michael Tomasky

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  • Mike Smithson | YouGov daily poll out on PB at 10pm. Also tonight the latest PB/Angus Reid poll....

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    • 20:41

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Unite has announced that British Airways cabin crew will strike for three days from March 20 and for four days from March 27. Gordon Brown has called on all parties involved in the dispute to work together to avert the action, adding that a strike would be a "danger and risk" to the British economy.

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    • If guests, like fish, start to stink after three days, UK governments, with their vast powers, stink after three terms. The present government is a good example. Moreover, another term could be as damaging for Labour as was John Major's surprise 1992 victory over Neil Kinnock for the Tories. Labour needs to lose, for its own sake, let alone the country's.

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    • Nick Clegg doesn’t do “What if?” politics, he says. The leader of the Liberal Democrats is politely Delphic in the face of The Economist’s inquiries, in an interview on March 9th, about his plans in the event of a hung parliament after the coming general election.

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    • Alan Paul has been fighting the Conservatives in Taunton, Somerset, for 25 years. This is a key marginal seat that has flipped between the Liberal Democrats and the Tories in the past four elections.

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    • Gordon Brown was last night powerless against a Frankenstein monster HE has unleashed - as Labour's union paymasters plotted a terrifying return to 1970s-style STRIKES.

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    • In November 2008, shortly after Barack Obama's election victory, his combative chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, revealed the new administration's approach to the sudden economic downturn. "Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste," he told the New York Times. "They are opportunities to do big things."

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    • If the defence budget was indeed “unbalanced” and the priorities were wrong, the heads of the Armed Services cannot escape their share of the blame. For not only do they sit on the highest decision-making bodies of the Ministry of Defence but they also, unlike civil servants, enjoy an effective veto over decisions through the threat of resignation — one that, apparently, they do not hesitate to deploy. Had Lord Guthrie taken the view that helicopters should be given priority over, for example, anti-submarine warfare or high-concept vehicle programmes, it is difficult to believe that his view would not have prevailed.

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    • When you get two polls, apparently so far apart as YouGov and Angus Reid, it’s very hard to come up with an explanation except by digging deep into the the data.

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    • Andrew Adonis's ambitious high-speed rail project proves that there are still good ideas coming from this government.

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    • So why were RBS and Lloyds/HBOS not fully nationalised, rather than given unconditional largesse? Speaking at this year's Spectator lunch, Darling boasted that "I own four banks". They appear to own him. They assured him they would use his money to lend to businesses and homeowners to avert recession. They lied and Darling knew it. He knew his money would disappear into underwriting the banks' casino debts and overheating the stock market.

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    • We had further evidence yesterday of just how chaotic and fighty it has been behind the scenes since New Labour won power in 1997. A former Whitehall mandarin spoke of the 'anarchy' at the top of the Government.

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