For balance, Nick Clegg also set his position on Trident out recently. It is trenchantly argued. He provocatively compares Chris Huhne’s position to Margaret Thatcher’s handling of Europe. Like Chris’ position, the wat it is articulated contains one problem. Nick’s stance can be summarised as: 1. We should aim to get rid of all nuclear weapons. 2. The best way to [...] 
The Association of British Counties (ABC), a body which promotes the importance of the historic counties to the culture and heritage of the UK, is calling on local councillors to choose a new name for the Unitary Council which will shortly replace Durham County Council and the 7 district councils within its area. ABC says that the name 'Durham County Council' or 'County Durham Council' would be inappropriate since the area of the new Unitary Council only covers about 2/3 of historic County Durham and actually excludes a large majority of the population of the historic County. The area of ...
So.............can we compare and contrast? Headline News "Thousands pose UK Threat" at the same time as "Brown's Queen's Speech Challenge" chatting about extending detention without trial. Can't possibly be a connection, can there?
I have been reading the Independent Review on the Scottish Parliamentary and Local Government Elections 2007 - The Gould Report, from the Electoral Commission. It is an excellent examination of why the elections went so wrong. The report gives various options for solutions in each area it examined. My own conclusions from the report are: 1. While holding the elections on the same date increases
Bonfire night. All our paper (much from the detoxed desk!) is neatly lined up for recycling and not thrown on a bonfire, which would be rather satisfying if not very ecological. We celebrated the night at a friends house and an interesting conversation about "reduce and reuse", before you get to "recycle". How many people have got equipment and gadgets for the garden that they don't use all of...
(http://www.samueljohnson.com/road.html) The Israeli military slang is very rich and colourful. However, like cockney it is almost impossible to translate to another language. In Hebrew the words for putting in effort translates literally as ‘sinking it in’ thus the word play “He who sinks in, sinks!”. Meaning there is no point in putting in your hart, blood, and sweat as it would not be appreciated or worse it would be used against you. It is not hard to find such situations in military and public life. This saying is obviously not politically correct and is in contrast to the fable of ...
I agreed with James Graham that it would be a shame is the leadership contest becomes all about Trident. But both the candidates seem determined to give it a certain amount of attention. Chris Huhne used a column in The Independent to state his position. It’s well argued, although I feel already know where Chris stands on this [...]
Some people think that marketers and advertisers are the spawn of Satan. Kop Lob Pob a Job can not agree. Over the next few days and weeks, I aim to post a few ads that brought cheer where there was boredom, brought delight where there was only a half-time cup of tea, and brought creativity where there was only the commercialisation of trivial items made to seduce the criminally stupid. We start with my all-time favourite ad series- Terrible Terry Tate- Office Linebacker. Please use the comments section to suggest adverts and commercials that you think merit inclusion, and I ...
So a Tory candidate has had to resign after endorsing that troubled and deeply limited politician, Enoch Powell, who famously ran away from the challenge of improving our society, instead promising us ‘rivers of blood’ as a result of untrammelled immigration. His ‘prediction’ never came about thanks primarily to the sensible approach to this issue among more intelligent politicians and the ingrained tolerance which people try to deny but which Britain still enjoys, whatever the wilder elements on the right wing and in the media would have us believe. Unfortunately, a Tory, one Nigel Hastilow, decided to stoke this particular ...
I awoke this morning to the news of the government's "radical" (their word not mine) approach to tackling the perennial problem of NEETs (those young people Not in Education Employment or Training) force them to stay in prison, whoops sorry, school until they are 18! Is this the same Gordon Brown advocating this who apparently advocates votes at 16? So we will accept that at 16 you are old enough to pay taxes, join the army, get married and maybe vote..........but not decide your future for yourself? And, if you decide you would rather not...........you will be sent directly to ...
This post is largely inspired by this one, and the resulting comments. I'd advise anyone reading this to read that too. I'm an economic liberal. I think that some regulation is necessary, but that we have more regulation than we presently need, and that this tends to act in favour of the large corporations who can most easily absorb the costs of this regulation. I think that the government wastes enough money at present that it has the scope to their cut taxes or redistribute money in a far more straightforward and direct way. I believe in the ability of ...
Nick is in my inbox, Chris is in my junkmail. Go figure.
Don Brown sure getting desperate to stop rise of other Families against his ailing and failing Labouristi. Latest stunt Capo Balls announce that he going to put the frighteners on any young people who no stay in school until they 18. This bad news for us. The sooner we start cugine on road of honour, more likely it is that they become made in the Family. Last thing we need is bored listless youths come to us late, brainwashed with qualifications in town planning and web-design, when they could have been smuggling tobacco for two years. Who we going to ...
Good news for us sinister lefthanders! As My Dad (a fellow lefthander) always said, 10% of the population are lefthanders, but 66% of geniuses are lefthanders. My point is???!
With the array of internal elections/selections that are happening I find it fascinating the shifting alliances between different members. One minute I’m at loggerheads or sensitively not raising a subject with one member only the next minute to be agreeing with them 0n the leadership. On Friday I met Lizzie Jewkes, PPC for Chester - we [...]
Cllr Mandy Sainsbury, whose phone was affected by the cabinet vandalism, reports that her land line is finally back on. "I bumped into a rather harassed Virgin engineer on my morning walk. Apparently the idiots poured petrol into the junction box and set fire to it, so Virgin have had to rebuild the whole box". "Some folk got re-connected ok but some didn't, so the engineers are in the area trying to track down the individual houses that need work to get the lines active again". "Any blog readers still off should contact Virgin ASAP to get their (I have ...
I was not at the Swansea launch of Nick Clegg's campaign in Wales last Monday as I was in Malta. However, his speech is here and it is bi-lingual. An impressive exercise in pushing all the right buttons. The Welsh hustings are on Wednesday in the Marriott Hotel, Cardiff. Both candidates have a meeting with the Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Group first. Perhaps then Chris Huhne can clarify exactly what his policy is on Trident.
I have it on good authority that only two options are now being considered when it comes to the revised unitary status for Norfolk. It has been revealed to councils that there will be either a single unitary Norfolk County or a three authority option with Norwich, Broadland and South Norfolk being merged to form one authority, North Norfolk and Great Yarmouth another and Breckland and Kings Lynn the third. This will of course lead to some really unwieldy authorities with no natural centre or sense of community. Quite what Wells Next the Sea has to do with Hopton On ...
Last week I wrote about the two Lib Dem leadership candidates' views on education and mentioned Nick Clegg's advocacy of the "pupil premium" - a scheme that would fund pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds more generously. Nick first put forward this idea in a pamphlet he wrote with Richard Grayson in 2002. It was called Learning From Europe: Lessons in Education, and if you search the backwaters of his campaign website you will find a link to a pdf version of it. And very good it is too. It is not a rehearsal of Liberal Democrat pieties: it is realistic about ...
The proposal in tomorrow's Queen's speech to raise the compulsory education age from 16 to 18 is deeply ill-judged. As with many of the government's nannying interventions in our lives it is being introduced, favourably with the best intentions, unfavourably to be seen to doing something. David Laws, the Liberal Democrats Education spokesperson hits the nail on the head when he comments: "There is a real problem with young people dropping out of education at 16, but the right approach is surely to tackle poor basic skills at an early age and making the curriculum more relevant." While we all ... 
Welcome to the 37th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (28th October - 3rd November), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed. No need to hust here - so let’s get straight down to it, in descending order [...]
Arif Ali/Agence France-Presse--Getty Images Pakistani uniformed and plainclothes police beating a lawyer during a protest in Lahore today. So, Musharraf's government are chasing down lawyers and Imran Khan, the former cricketer. The targets of this supposed crackdown on terrorism say it all.
You may be interested to know that Carlsberg - Friday's Shropshire Pub Cat of the Day - has gone home to his rightful owner. The Shropshire Star reports: after seeing his picture in the Shropshire Star, Jennie Harris from Broseley came forward to reclaim him - and reveal his real name as Boots. Miss Harris explained she lives next door to a pub so he must have climbed on board and travelled down the road to Ironbridge.“He has always been adventurous and has probably used up quite a few of his nine lives,” she said.
Will Sir Ian Blair, survive the week? I think not, I think that once the IPPC report comes out, unless something truly remarkable happens, then Sir Ian Blair will probably have to resign. If it wasn’t for that then I’d think he’d probably survive. But then it really rather suits the Government, the MPS and the MPA for Blair to hold on and take chop for both convictions/results – rather in
Those first three phrases/words are guaranteed to attract the attention of the Dalester! There's an interesting exchange on Hopi Sen's A blog from the back room: So a Tory PPC has responded to the dog whistle of his leader by barking a little too loudly. Not really a surprise, was it? Then there’s the reaction. With that Maidstone selection coming up Iain Dale ties himself in knots so he can 
According to West Brom Blog or Dafink respectively, Nigel Hastilow is not a racist, he is "an a***hole" or "stupid". Frankly, it has become almost completely pointless debating whether someone is racist or not, because there is always the "I am not a racist, some of my best friends...." defence. Like with Jim Davidson. His best friend is Chalkie (or used to be until he made jokes about him). I
This morning I attended the launch event of the City Council Finance Department's "Pick up a prize" promotion - aimed at encouraging more Dundonians to pay their Council Tax by Direct Debit.A prize draw campaign will run for 3 months until 31st January 2008, with the prizes being drawn on 29th February 2008. The draw gives the chance for Direct Debit payers to win a number of prizes (donated by local businesses) and, in case any of you are wondering - in response to a point made by the Council Leader that he'd be deeply embarrassed if he won a ...
Having recently lost a good friend through cancer, I have great sympathy for Iain Dale, who relates the departure from this world of his Godmother. Good for you, for sharing that so honestly, Iain.
Bold words from Young Master Clegg in his campaign email today: On our core liberal issues, I believe we must be bold. We must take our ideas, and turn them into action. This week I took the first step: we have always opposed identity cards but I became the first national politician to pledge to refuse to register, and risk going to court for my principles. This blog doesn’t make a habit of saying nice things about Simon Hughes, but doesn’t he beat Cleggy on this score by at least two years? Indeed, I seem to recall him making much ...
Just a few of the topics covered today here on my non-political blog.
I see the Lib Dem leadership contenders were involved in a radio "speed dating" thing today with questions from members of the public. Not to be outdone, I am involved in my own radio speed dating this weekend. I am taking part in something for the BBC which involves around 10 people - academics and others - presenting ideas in the "free think" event. This means we will all be promoting ideas for the future and the public will vote on which they prefer, after a series of speed dating conversations. The whole thing takes place at FACT. I am ...
Next week the Youth Communications Network is having its AGM. We are also, on the same day, having a bit of an event so that stakeholders can come and meet the team, and hopefully let us know how they can get involved in helping us reach more young people. Both are on 13th November. YCN was set up to do several things.. including empowering young people to promote themselves as a force for good - and to make sure young people have a voice on a range of subjects. Our main "output" at the moment is Youth Live magazine - ...
There's got to be some joke connecting the unveiling of Tutankhamun's face and the sacking of a Tory candidate after he endorsed Enoch Powell's views on immigration, so stick with me: "We've decided to call him Enoch""The true face of Conservatism"New Home Office Figures Suggest up to 1 million blackened corpses could flood our shores: Daily Mail. Ok, that didn't seem to come to anything. I
Searching through a 1942 edition of the Manchester Guardian (now theguardian), I came across this letter dated October 2nd of that year. It’s from a J. L. Edwards of Whitefield. It is to be hoped that members of the House of Commons will avail themselves to the full of the opportunity offered by the Home Secretary when he moved the second reading of the Prolongation of Parliament Bill. He then repeated the pledge already given by the Government that before a general election could be held facilities would be given for the discussion of the electoral system, so that there ...
The idea that the Liberal Democrats wouldn’t be distinctive, or that we would become a ‘3rd Tory Party’ if we re-adopted a more liberal economic policy is an interesting one. There’s two errors at the root of this argument: One is that liberal economics naturally belong to the Tories. Not true. It’s ours and we should be able to speak with authority on it. We can reclaim it by demonstrating how we can use it to deliver liberal desired outcomes, not conservative desired outcomes. Since we disowned liberal economics — signing away our intellectual property to those who would, ironically, ...
I've just set up a petition on the Council website here. Do sign it if you agree! The petition reads: Suburban back gardens are currently treated as industrial brownfield sites for planning purposes. As a result developers are purchasing houses and back gardens in the Royal Borough and then submitting plans for housing at much higher densities. Decisions by the local...
In amongst all the other (most Lib Dem leadership!) stuff last week were two postings of mine I just want to give another burst of publicity: the harrowing first hand account from an Iraqi who used to work for the British armed forces and now fears for his life, andthe experience of a constituent of mine who has never been convicted of a crime and has to get written permission from the state to talk to me, his Member of Parliament.So if you missed them first time round, or didn't have time to read them, I hope you'll take a ...
It has not been an easy decision this time. I like, and respect, both candidates, and have had the pleasure of spending quality time with them in the past. They are both highly intelligent, genuinely liberal and equally capable of taking it to a Labour government which confuses pandering to the Daily Mail with genuine leadership. I proudly supported Chris last time, as the one candidate who, I
Thank you to Peter Welch for pointing out this article in the News Statesman. It offers some reflections on the Tory cult of celebrity, including the LibDems' favourite, Grant Shapps: ...property expert Kirstie Allsopp is to use her specialist knowledge to lead a Conservative review into buying and selling homes. The Location, Location, Location presenter, who is a friend of Cameron's, will be
Since we moved in here, we've laboured under the impression that it wouldn't be easy to replace our central heating timer. It's one of those old mechanical dial devices - a Danfoss Randall 102 to be precise. It turns out that Danfoss still make these things, and they also make two electronic timers can can be direct plugin replacements. You just unscrew the old one, and slot the new one in place. There's a 5+2 day timer (102e5) and a 7 day timer (102e7). So, I've ordered a Danfoss Randall 102e7, which will allow us much better control over our heating. For ...
I notice that petrol has topped £1 per litre at a couple of filling stations locally. I wonder whether they'll start to shoot up now that that barrier has been broken. Crude oil prices have gone up by 50% in the past year (from $60 to $90 a barrel), and the petrol retail industry has seen margins cut heavily...
The decision by General Musharraf to impose martial law has set back Pakistan in the eyes of other nations, especially when so many nations realise that military rule is not only socially counter-productive, it is also leads to economic disaster. Today, Pakistan is virtually overwhelmed by the economic powerhouse that India has become and frankly I cannot conceive that India would ever tear up their governance framework and turn to the imposition of martial law. In fact, India has moved on and does not spend the enormous sums of resources on being a counterweight to Pakistan and this position came ...
I’ve just listened to what was effectively another leadership hustings on Five Live this lunchtime. Simon Mayo hosted the show where four listeners had five minutes to ask Nick and Chris questions. All four listeners then said they would prefer Nick Clegg to become leader. Throughout the campaign so far I have seen Chris Huhne impress Lib Dem members with intelligent, articulate answers. On the other hand, Nick Clegg has gained increasing popularity amongst the media and the country as a whole. Nick Clegg won over all four listeners with shorter, punchier answers. I particularly liked his answer on the ...
From the McClatchy group today. An article strongly contradicting the belligerent tone of the West recently. Experts seem to agree that there is no firm evidence of a nuclear program, only cause for suspicion. Read the full article by clicking on the link above. The McClatchy were the only news organisation that raised serious questions [...]
From Thought Leader, after this suppressed story caused foreign media outlets to erupt in fits of giggles that the English High Court could tell them what to do: If you want to guarantee the identity of a high-profile individual being revealed, then please ensure you take the following steps: Obtain a gagging order in their country of origin. Warn the media and the internet community of dire
If you use Google to search the Internet, then you can redirect some of the advertising revenue from Google’s ads into the party’s coffers (sorry, not your own!) if you use the Google search box in the party’s free Internet browser toolbar.* Once you’ve got the toolbar, just stick your search queries into its search box [...]
The Vulcan makes a good point: "On November 5th we remember that terrorism in the name of religion is not a new problem. We should also remember how this plot was foiled. It was not intercepted through the issue of ID cards. The police or army did not spot the plotters carrying huge barrels of gunpowder into a cellar. It was not prevented by a cordon of oak or iron - today’s concrete and steel -
The link is to a case which looked at an Adult's ability to litigate and when a "next friend" should be appointed. Para 58 is quite clear: The authorities are unanimous in support of two broad propositions. First, that the mental capacity required by the law is capacity in relation to the transaction which is to be effected. Second, that what is required is the capacity to understand the nature
Later this week, officers will be reporting to councillors the details of the new Waste Management Contract which has been negotiated, replacing the one we have with Durham County Council. As befits a Council which now professes to be open and consultative, there has been no openness or consultation at all with us or the public about what we would like to see included in this major aspect of
…asked Crosby, Stills and Nash in their song ‘Daylight again’, released on the album of the same name in 1982. It is indeed a good question, and one that is particularly relevant in the light of the first two weeks of this leadership election. In 2006, I had no feel that we were debating ideas in the Campbell/Huhne/Hughes contest, merely the rather nebulous concept of leadership, and perhaps
Its simple - they are too important to be left to governments.
The Sunday Times did its best to spice up the story yesterday: Aide claims tryst with royal’s father. Tryst? There's a word you don't hear very often. But it does fit neatly into a headline. As I pointed out the other day, despite all the injunctions flying about, it is very easy for anyone in Britain who wants to find out the name of the minor royal involved to do so. Not that it is very exciting when you do. Marcel Berlins discusses the implications of the Internet for such legal proceedings in today's Guardian: There is no way in ...
Posted by Chris: I attended the funeral of Dr Herbert Kay this morning at Acklam Crematorium. It was a Humanist service which celebrated the life of a much loved Middlesbrough GP. Herb's wife Jean was my predecessor as leader of the Lib Dem Group on Redcar & Cleveland Council. I met Herb an many occasions when I did electrical work at their house and always enjoyed his witty comments. In retirement Herb converted part of his garage into a joinery workshop and he made many quality pieces of furniture. His daughter brought a couple of his more quirky pieces to ...
At the reception at Burgh House that habitually follows Hampstead Town Ward LibDems’ AGM, the latest local party product was on show and on sale: a cookbook compiled and edited by local stalwart Louise Malin, entitled ‘Serve a Liberal Helping’. Nicely timed as a Christmas gift, it provides a wide range of recipes for meals [...]
Further to yesterday’s news about the fireworks shack plonked on the road by St Mary’s Park, I have heard back from Trading Standards, and the news is not good. Their role is only to make sure the fireworks are made to the required standard (which apparently they are in this case) and that they are not sold to under 18s. A Trading Standards officer is taking an under 18 down this afternoon for a test purchase, but obviously this has to wait until after school. So our local portakabin seller has the necessary licence to store the fireworks from the ...
This article on the BBC is the first public sign that people inside Labour are just as worried about Clegg as many in the Tories are. There is a feeling of ‘despondancy’ within the Labour Party. Do they feel the end is near? Harriet Harman confirms (at least in my mind) that senior cabinet ministers are under orders to keep pointing out their latest line that they’re “united” - that’s what they want the public to believe, whether or not it’s actually true - it’s believable though. Labour MPs have an unparralled reputation for sycophany, in the guise of ‘collectivism’. ...
Should we be worried by food riots in Mexico and West Bengal, empty shelves in Caracas and Mexico and warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa? After all, we’ve got so much food in the UK that we throw away a third of it. Well, yes. Something is radically wrong and if [...]
Some more developments on the issue of the Chagos Islanders. I've picked up from Sarah Ludford MEP's regular email newsletter that there is a petition on the Number 10 website petition thing : You can help out the campaign yourselves by signing the petition on the Downing Street website at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/chagosappeal/. It really is one of the most fundamental of campaigns – the right
The Yorkshire Post is today carrying an article written by Nick Clegg on “Son Of Star Wars” - agreed by the Government without proper debate in parliament with the support of the Tories.
The future of Weston-super-Mare’s Tropicana takes another twist this month when the private developer Henry Boot puts on display its latest plans for the redevelopment of the site. I was a Councillor when North Somerset Council selected Henry Boot as the preferred developer for the Tropicana back in the summe of 2005. At that time the council consulted the public on various options for the future of the site. Only 11% supported Henry Boot’s scheme. 60% backed a scheme to build a covered swimming pool (and nothing else), funded by the taxpayer with possibly some other development elsewhere to help ...
The political prospects for Adam Rickitt have, for some reason, been the subject of much blogster speculation over the last couple of years. Pendennis in the Observer believes his political career may be dead due to him making a "hand shandy" sign behind Nigel Evans MP's back at a House of Commons' photocall. Actually, surely this should increase the lad's political chances shouldn't it.....
I am still searching in vain for David Cameron's condemnation of Nigel Hastilow, his PPC (until yesterday) who said that Enoch Powell was right in his "rivers of blood" speech. Hastilow is still saying he did nothing wrong. David Cameron is very quick to the microphones most of the time. Why such reluctance on this one? A bit close to home perhaps?
In yesterday's Observer, Professor Vernon Bogdanor wrote an excellent criticism of the Tories idea for an English "Grand Committee" in the House of Commons. He says it will create two governments at Westminster, effectively take away Scots MPs' power to vote on the funding for Scotland (which is set via an arithmetic connection the English tax settlement) and politicise the role of speaker, who
Lib Dem schools spokesman David Laws has earned copious coverage this morning for uncovering statistics showing that the number of children taking French, German and Spanish has fallen to 48% - down from 83% in 2000. Curriculum changes made in 2003 meant students were no longer required to take a modern language at GCSE. Full story [...]
As reported on BBC and in the media Frank Field has said the following: “Many of our side think that if [Lib Dem leadership candidate] Nick Clegg wins then that will actually take votes off Cameron because he looks like Cameron,” he said. “But if our despondency continues, and that’s why this Queen’s Speech is so important [...]
Top satirist Armando Iannucci reported in yesterday’s Observer on the election fever which has taken grip of Washington DC: Usually, America doesn’t really cover international news in the media, but this week the talk in Washington has been of one story and no other: the fight for leadership of the Lib Dems by Chris Huhne and [...]
The Queen’s Speech takes place tomorrow, but expectations are lower this year even than normal, owing to the fact that Gordon ‘no spin’ Brown pre-announced the 23 bills and draft bills which would be introduced back in July. Acting Lib Dem leader Vince Cable has said he finds it “unlikely” that Tuesday’s statement will be [...]
Chris Huhne has hit the headlines in the last 24 hours with his comments on two stories: the crisis unfolding in Pakistan and the continued service of most of Northern Rock’s board. A little-known fact is that a young Chris reported undercover from India during Mrs. Ghandi’s emergency. He says on the martial law and calls for elections in Pakistan: Pakistan is going to have a new democratic regime, there is going to be a change back and we are aligning ourselves with the wrong side
Another politician, other than Liam Byrne, who has had a bad weekend is Nigel Hastilow. Hastilow was the Conservative candidate for Halesowen and Rowley Regis and columnist in the Express and Star. Hastilow has resigned as candidate after being summoned to a meeting with Tory party chairwoman Caroline Spelman to explain the comments he made in a the Express and Star supporting Enoch Powell by saying he was "right" when he gave his notorious "Rivers of Blood" anti-immigration speech.
I got up at 6.40am and it was dark outside. So even with the clocks going back, I was greeted by darkness in the morning. It is daylight now as I stand here on the platform of Newcastle station waiting for my delayed train to London but it doesn't let us escape from the fact winter is approaching fast. Last night when I was out collecting survey replies, at least I had people's private firework
All of the papers this morning report on unrepentant Conservative parliamentary candidate, Nigel Hastilow, who stepped down last night after a storm of protest over his remarks that Enoch Powell was right to make his notorious "rivers of blood speech" on the effects of immigration in Britain. He fell on his sword rather than apologise for his remarks, though according to the Guardian, comments on Conservative Home seems to indicate that there are still a lot of Tories who support him in what he said: His views sparked a lively debate on the Conservative Home website, showing the party is ...
I've had a little affinity towards silent cinema for a while now, charlie chaplin has always appealed to me with his sentimental left winged comedy antics ('Look up' (The Great Dictator) is still one of my fave speeches) but I am now moving on a little to Buster Keaton. I find his work almost artistic as well as humorous (although I have seen some of his work completely butchered by bad and 'wacky' sound tracks) and this video I think sums up exactly what is brilliant about the man's work. the song if anyone's interested is 'Down to the well' ...
I loved Elizabeth, the original Shekhar Kapur / Cate Blanchett film. Sure it was historically inaccurate, but it was done with such aplomb. Basically the film was The Godfather Part I in a frock. So I was expecting Elizabeth: The Golden Age to be the Godfather Part II. Sadly, it was rather closer in quality to Part III, with the excrutiating romantic subplot, but without the downbeat ending. At least no-one makes pasta at any point. First of all, the two most interesting and potentially cinematic aspects of this period of Elizabeth’s life were the rivalry with Mary Queen of ...
On Saturday 17th November 2007 CentreForum will be hosting a day long conference Britain behind bars the struggle for law and order at the Goodenough College, London.
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