As I say,a work in progress. ?Feel free to add tips.Happy Birthday,
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It's a mess, but we can live with it until there is a break in the clouds. And don't forget, the biggest flaw in the Clegg blueprint for Lords reform was the bland assumption that a largely elected upper chamber – the Senate? – would not enjoy enhanced powers that challenge the Commons. But it would, Nick. Election amounts to a voter mandate and the right to assert it. In the US system we call the result legislative gridlock.What about the new 30? I almost forgot. The pundits have chewed over them. It's easy/boring to score points off each other's party donors: they all do it. But donors also donate to other good causes or create worldwide businesses which provide jobs and export income, as the new Lord Bamford (just two days younger than me but worth ￡3bn more,
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I say all of this to clarify that I don't hate the Margiela SS2011 RTW show. In fact,
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In fact,it often seems as though they represent two different countries. The Republicans,who still command a majority in the House thanks to gerrymandered districts,are shrinking to a rural and Southern core. (There isn't a single GOP representative east of the Hudson River,save Peter King of Long Island,
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12.00pm: And here's a line from my colleague Rupert Jones about the public sector pensions bill.Ministers are pressing ahead with their controversial reforms of public sector pensions ahead of a new strike tomorrow (Thursday) by tens of thousands of workers.A public service pensions bill was included in the Queen's speech, despite continued opposition from unions, who say the changes mean millions of workers will have to "work longer, pay more and get less" at retirement.Civil servants,
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The thing Goldstone could?never quite grasp?was that no Israeli officer will fail to use tank shells against a sniper in an apartment window if this means minimizing the risk to his troops—and damn the children in the adjacent apartment.This was the real lesson of Cast Lead in 2009,and the second Lebanon war in 2006,too. It has sunk in. The most disquieting feeling Israelis have comes from listening to generals and Likud cheerleaders repeating threats that have come to seem not wrong,exactly,but unimaginative,
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The reader,however,
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