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Frank Field reveals his candid opinion on the future of Britain
Posted on March 13, 2010
With a rock- solid Merseyside seat, and a thick skin after three decades in public life, he doesn't care who knows that he thinks Mr Brown is a disaster who should never have been Chancellor, let alone Prime Minister.
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Greece debt: EU agrees bailout deal
Posted on March 12, 2010
The eurozone has agreed a multibillion-euro bailout for Greece as part of a package to shore up the single currency after weeks of crisis, the Guardian has learnt.
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    Smile now, cry later
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Britain has bought in to America’s positive thinking and is heavily pushing the “science of happiness” – but does it work?
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    Dysfunction at the White House
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    With people such as Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod at his side, Obama is unlikely to turn his presidency around.
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    • Baroness Uddin escapes prosecution over £100,000 claims
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    A senior Labour peer was told today that she will not face charges for fraudulently claiming living allowances because the House of Lords rules on claiming expenses are so vague.
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    The British election that both sides deserve to lose
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Mirror, mirror, on the wall who is the least ugly of them all? This is how I feel when I examine the alternatives offered by the forthcoming general election.
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    Bush aide Karl Rove insists 'waterboarding is not torture'
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    George W Bush's former top adviser has said he is "proud" of the use of harsh interrogation techniques - including waterboarding - during the War on Terror.
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    • New York City agrees World Trade Centre toxic dust payout
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    New York City authorities have agreed to pay up to $657.5m (£437m) to rescue and recovery workers who claim that they became ill after inhaling dust at the Ground Zero site of the 9/11 terror attacks.
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    Middle East review
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide
  • Syria and Israel eye nuclear plants             
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    • Where the Bar Ought to Be
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Deborah Kenny talks a lot about passion — the passion for teaching, for reading and for learning. She has it. She wants all of her teachers to have it. Above all, she wants her students to have it.
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    Lehman bosses used accountancy gimmick to cover up debt
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Dick Fuld, the former chairman and chief executive of Lehman Brothers, and some of his closest lieutenants used a “lazy accounting gimmick” to hide the bank's insolvency, an explosive report by a court-appointed legal examiner has found.
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    West Bank rises up in a new 'white' intifada
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    As Israel cracks down harshly on unarmed protesters, Donald Macintyre meets one Palestinian family whose teenage son has paid a heavy price
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    Greece brought to a halt by austerity protest strike
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Much of Greece ground to a halt yesterday as public and private sector unions called another general strike in opposition to tough government austerity measures and proposed pension reforms aimed at restoring fiscal order for the battered economy.
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    • Gordon Brown has terrible form when it comes to keeping his promises
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    When events defy the Prime Minister's preferred view of the world, he has a remarkable capacity for applying the Tipp-Ex. History doesn't haunt him because he either ignores or rewrites it. No British leader in my lifetime has embraced the technique of veracity evasion with greater enthusiasm.
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    Today's Comments
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Johann Hari: Palestinians should now declare their independence
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    • Princess Diana 'was killed after plan to frighten her went wrong'
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Princess Diana died after attempts to frighten her into dumping Dodi al Fayed and ending her anti-establishment activities went horribly wrong, a leading lawyer has claimed. Michael Mansfield claimed he was sure Diana's 'killers' had no intention of ending her life in a Paris tunnel in August 1997 and simply wanted to scare her.
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    Courts should not try us, say Expenses four
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Elliot Morley, David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Lord Hanningfield said the allegations against them should be considered by parliamentary authorities instead of a jury. They said they were protected from criminal prosecution by the right of parliamentary privilege, dating back to the Bill of Rights of 1689.
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    'Gaping hole' in rules on foreign doctors, GMC says
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    The General Medical Council has told the Health Select Committee that it is prevented from testing the qualifications of European locums. Niall Dickson, the GMC chief executive said the council is forced to accept skills competency certificates and qualifications "at face value" and is not allowed by European law to check English language skills.
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    Public sector pension costs may reach £79bn a year
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Pension payments to retired public servants could balloon by 200 per cent to £79bn a year in the next 50 years, according to a report by government spending watchdogs published today.
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    The Sports Report
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    Football:
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    • Europe's banks brace for UK debt crisis
    Posted on March 12, 2010
    UniCredit has alerted investors in a client note that Britain is at serious risk of a bond market and sterling debacle and faces even more intractable budget woes than Greece.
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    Aftershocks Rattle Chile During Inauguration
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    SANTIAGO, Chile — The new Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera, had not even taken office on Thursday when major aftershocks rocked the central coast of this earthquake-ravaged country. But within hours of his inauguration, he appeared on television to announce that troops, relief supplies and even Mr. Piñera himself would be heading immediately to the quake zone.
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    • Beijingers get back on their bikes
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Office worker David Dai is one of a growing army of Beijing residents returning to two-wheeled transport.
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    • Whoever wins, Britain will have a hung parliament--Mick Hume
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    It is said that nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of being hanged in the morning, but the prospect of waking up to a hung parliament after the coming UK General Election appears to be having the opposite effect.
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    Today's Comments
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Steve Richards: Step forward the minister with a scheme to make a difference
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    Africa review
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Has Nigeria's First Lady seized control of the nation?
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    • Microsoft launches free rival to BBC iPlayer - the MSN Video Player
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Microsoft is launching a free online video player - the first serious rival to the BBC’s iPlayer. The MSN video player, which goes live tomorrow, will feature a thousand hours of television programming that is aimed mainly at the youth market, young families and professionals.
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    'Monogamy bores me terribly'
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    As rumours of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's affairs abound, Cassandra Jardine asks: is there something to be said for the French attitude towards infidelity?
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    Colleen LaRose: all-American neighbour or terrorist Jihad Jane?
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Arrest of 'cat lady', suspected of plot to kill Prophet cartoonist, linked to terror suspects held in Ireland
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    • 'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie'
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    The final moments of Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist crushed to death beneath a pile of earth and rubble in the path of an advancing Israeli army bulldozer, were described to an Israeli court by an eyewitness yesterday.
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