That's it for today. Thanks for the comments.5.39pm: Verdict: Earlier on Sky Joey Jones was talking about the concept of "coalition manners". It's a useful phrase which helps to explain what was going on during David Cameron's two-hour appearance at the despatch box. Conservative Eurosceptics have won a great victory. As John Redwood (see 3.19pm) and others have explained,
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He says he will not bring back the western extension to the congestion charge but will revisit his proposed ￡25 charge for polluting cars. However, his plan to build a Thames Gateway road bridge has always been unpopular with green campaigners. Livingstone today is proposing to work with energy companies to make sure that Londoners take advantage of existing insulation schemes, and promises to make "cutting Londoners' fuel bills and reducing carbon emissions a mayoral priority". He has also floated the idea of a programme of retro-fitting all London's buildings to make them energy efficient,
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He was told,"We don't do humility." If the New Israeli Women achieve anything for Israel,
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Miley Cyrus performs at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards on August 25. (John Shearer/Invision for MTV/AP)The second thought was that her act—in which she started off as a cartoon-porn plush toy,her tongue at a right angle to her mandible,and finished up as a latex-clad masturbationist—was the nadir of American civilization.The third thought was the most depressing of all: this couldn't possibly be the nadir,
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