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The Labour Party are not having a particularly good time wooing the Jewish community at the moment. First, there were the anti-semitic posters featuring Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin as flying pigs and a second one showing the Tory Leader as a Fagin-like character, now we have the Labour Mayor of London likening a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. They must really work hard to achieve such a high level of ineptitude.

Have discovered the Comedy Night at Lincoln Uni.They have Stewart Lee, Mitch Benn and Richard Herring all coming up over the next few months :)

To quote from the newsweek article: "... Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success—despite the deaths of innocent civilians ..." Now if you put that with Juan Cole's analysis of munitions and the level of support for the insurgents: "Likewise, the ...

13 of the 23 Further Education Colleges in Wales face a combined deficit of over £7 million this year. In the Assembly on Wednesday the Education Minister sought to defend her funding regime for these colleges arguing that the FE sector had received increases of 21% since ELWa was formed about four years ago, yet her arguments were flawed. When the Education and Lifelong Learning Committee went to see ELWa it was made plain to us that the vast majority of this funding had gone into achieving pay parity between lecturers and teachers. Indeed this money had been earmarked for ...