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At last we know the truth: Labour despises anyone who loves Britain, its values and its history
Posted on February 24, 2010
There could scarcely be a more profound abuse of the democratic process than to set out to destroy a nation's demographic and cultural identity through a conscious deception of the people of that nation. It is an act of collective national treachery.
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Launch of the Bloom box fuel cell generates a slice of Apple hype
Posted on February 24, 2010
What brings Arnold Schwarzenegger to eBay HQ? An ex-Nasa scientist's cheap energy invention made from sand inscribed with special inks
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    • Flying into the future: New Zealand company to make personal jet packs
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Martin Aircraft Company, in Christchurch, New Zealand, aims to make 500 packs a year which will sell for around £50,000.
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    • Rights Body Counts 28 Civilian Deaths in Marjah
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    KABUL (AP) -- The Afghan human rights commission reported Wednesday that 28 civilians have been killed so far in NATO's offensive on the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, and urged pro-government forces to take greater care in distinguishing between civilians and militants.
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    • French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    French advertising companies are often criticised for using sexual images to sell everything from designer spectacles to sweetcorn. Now, for the first time, a controversy has erupted in France over the use of sexually suggestive posters as a deterrent.
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    MPs' verdict on News of the World phone-hacking scandal: Amnesia, obfuscation and hush money
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Rupert Murdoch's media giant News International could face a judicial inquiry after a highly critical parliamentary report today accuses senior executives at its top-selling newspaper of concealing the truth about the extent of illegal phone hacking by its journalists.
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    Today's Comments
    Posted on February 24, 2010

    The Sketch: Intimidated nitwits who are beneath contempt

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    Europe review
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Bishop who preached about 'excess' caught drink-driving
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  • Back to the USSR?        
  • Don't cosy up to Russia, Europe           
  • Spain engulfed by pension protests                    
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    • Google faces anti-monopoly probe by European Commission
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Google is facing a preliminary anti-monopoly probe by the European Commission into its dominant position in online browsing and digital advertising following allegations that it demotes competing websites to the lower echelons of customers' search results.
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    'Pacification' of Europe is threat to security, US tells Nato
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Obama administration accused Europe's leaders of endangering peace because of reluctance to foot bill for adequate defence
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    Somali pirates reduce ransom for Britons
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    The pirates who captured a retired British couple four months ago have dismissed growing pressure from the Somali diaspora for their unconditional release but are reducing their ransom demands
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    The Sports Report
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Football:
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    • Escalating Falklands oil dispute goes to UN
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    The diplomatic row over the Falkland Islands deepened dramatically after Argentina announced that it would take its protests over British oil exploration to the United Nations today.
  • Leaders agree to create Latam bloc            
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    Labour's teaching strategies were a burden, say inspectors
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    The national strategies programme introduced prescriptive teaching methods and a daily literacy and numeracy hour in primary school 12 years ago. But the school inspectorate Ofsted said that in more than half of secondary schools and a third of primary schools, the programme has not rooted out "weaknesses in basic teaching skills".
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    Stafford hospital findings to be made public
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Appalling standards of care put many patients at risk, and between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected in a three-year period from 2005 to 2008, the commission found.
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    Business and taxpayers face £2bn bill under Brussels plans to give new mothers 20 weeks leave on FULL pay
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    A European Parliament committee passed a plan to make firms pay new mothers their full salary for at least 20 weeks. The UK Government opposes the Pregnant Workers Directive, but Labour's socialist EU allies backed it.
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    Europe's winter of discontent
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    A wave of industrial and social unrest is building across Europe as workers resist attempts by governments and private companies to impose austerity policies, drive down wages and rescue some nations from near-bankruptcy.
  • Strikes cause chaos in Europe             
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    • Alistair Darling: Gordon Brown 'unleashed forces of hell on me'
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Alistair Darling has accused Gordon Brown's aides of "unleashing the forces of hell" against him for accurately predicting the recession.
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