But no, the pressure from the restless rightwing of the Conservative party is all in the opposite direction.Cut more deeply and, while you're about it, seize this moment of eurozone weakness to loosen your ties with Brussels as the price of co-operating to reform the zone, say some. Break the zone up by engineering Greek or (the other way around) German withdrawal, others blithely assert.On the party's wilder shores – Mark Pritchard MP wrote in the Telegraph that EU membership amounts to military occupation, the twerp – there is even talk of the biggest cut of all: cutting off EU membership.This is depressing stuff. We live in a fast-declining region of the world where the economy is flat to falling,
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Straw also said the Electoral Commission should consider whether the Tories had robust procedures for vetting donations in place. 10.47am: This is Paul Owen taking over from Andrew Sparrow.Labour has just sent out Jack Straw's letter to the Electoral Commission about the "cash for Cameron" affair. Here are the key paragraphs:According to reports, undercover reporters told Mr [Peter] Cruddas and Ms [Sarah] Southern that they were interested in making a donation on behalf of Middle Eastern donors. The reporters were allegedly told that money from foreign investors could be channelled through a company established by the reporters as they were on the UK electoral roll ... The Sunday Times has published a series of video recordings of both Mr Cruddas and Ms Southern.
6,2012. (Jewel Samad,AFP / Getty Images)A few months ago,the conventional wisdom doomed Obama on the grounds that no incumbent in modern times had won with unemployment above 7.2 percent. In fact,voters thought the rate was 7.5 percent on Ronald Reagan's triumphant morning in America. In addition,until Reagan,the benchmark would have been 5.6 points. What the Reagan experience suggests—and Obama's success validates—is that the decisive factor is no fixed number,but the direction in which the economy is moving. And for this president,despite a GOP determined to block every measure for recovery,the economy picked up and unemployment more than ticked down in the final months of the campaign.
For all the years of her growing up,hers was the only Jewish family in the small town where they lived. My grandfather ran a series of little general stores there that,one by one,went bankrupt.Her dream was to go to college,and she won scholarships—first to university,and then to graduate school at Harvard (or Radcliffe,as they called it in those days). She graduated magna cum laude. Then—settled in small-town New Hampshire with my father (once again,the only Jew,or close,in a landscape of longtime New Englanders)—she discovered that as a wife and mother of the 1950s,
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(Maan) Israeli military vehicles enter border area inside Gaza- Seven Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered a border area in the southern Gaza Strip near Khan Younis on Wednesday and destroyed agricultural land,including trees. (Maan) Foreign Ministry initiating 'PR Attack' on Hispanics in the US- Prime Minister Netanyahu,who serves as Foreign Minister,decided to put emphasis on getting closer to biggest minority in the US,some 52 million people. Already the ministry is working with Spanish-speaking locals at Israeli consulates. (Maariv,p. 1/NRG Hebrew) Israel to release 2 hunger strikers early- An Israeli military court has reduced the administrative detention of two hunger-striking prisoners from Jenin by two-weeks.
? Hamish Macdonell in the Times (paywall) says Alex Salmond is issuing an ultimatum to David Cameron over the nature of the referendum on Scottish independence.Alex Salmond has warned David Cameron that he will press ahead with his own two-question referendum on independence if he fails to get Westminster's legal backing for the poll planned for 2014.The First Minister has also made it clear that he will hold that referendum on the day of the 2015 General Election — apparently to cause as much disruption as possible to the Prime Minister's chances of re-election.Senior Scottish government sources have disclosed that the First Minister has dramatically upped the stakes over the independence referendum.
Canaday took half the children and Simonds took the others. The teachers had them get down on their knees against the wall and cover their heads,just as they had often done in the school's regular drills. The tornado roared ever near."We just held them and told them to keep their heads down," Canaday remembered. "I kept telling them they were going to be just fine and God was going to take care of us. I prayed as loud as I could."The twister was right upon them in all its fury."When it hit it was so loud," Canaday said. "I just kept telling the kids under me,‘It's going to be OK.' I prayed aloud…‘Just take me instead because they're the babies.'" This car was blown into the school,
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As this panel of reaction shows, the report has been largely welcomed by retailers.? Alan Milburn, the government's independent reviewer on social mobility and child poverty, has said that the government has not chance of meeting its aim of eradicating child poverty by 2020. In his first major speech in his new role, he said that minister (and the Labour party) should admit that this target was unachievable. He also said the goverment should focus its child poverty drive on the under-fives because this would offer "big economic returns" for the country, with the poorest families having the most to gain. (See 9.43am.)? Labour have accused the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats of breaking their promise to allow voters to "recall" MPs who commit serious misconduct.
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