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John Reid Retroblogging

yorksranter wrote 1 week ago: I am currently reading Antonio Giustozzi’s Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop - The Neo-Taliban In … more »

Tags: 4GW, Afghanistan, Blair, Books, british army, cultures of war, my own ignorance, Pakistan, Politics

British hacker faces extradition hearing Today

Brian Howes wrote 2 weeks ago: British hacker faces extradition hearing Today A British hacker fighting extradition to the US prep … more »

Tags: Politics, News, Extradition, Human Rights, Clevelan Police, Gary McKinnon, unfair extradition, News, Human Rights

Last of the Feeble Fifty

northbritain wrote 1 month ago: When Jim Sillars won the Govan by-election for the SNP in 1988 and derided the Scottish Labour MPs … more »

Tags: Labour, Politics, Scotland, SNP, Alistair Darling, David Marshall, Dick Douglas, Frank Doran, Gavin Strang

Who will succeed Gordon Brown?

thepoliticaltipster wrote 1 month ago: TPT looks at the betting odds Given that is increasingly likely that Gordon Brown will be forced to … more »

Tags: British politics, gordon brown, Hazel Blears, Charles Clarke, alan milburn, Frank Field, Alastair Darling

Time for Gordon Brown to go1 comment

thepoliticaltipster wrote 1 month ago: Why there has to be a challenge to Gordon Brown Last night’s by-election result was disastrou … more »

Tags: British politics, gordon brown, Hazel Blears, Charles Clarke, alan milburn

British Polling Projections: Conservative Majority of 136

thepoliticaltipster wrote 2 months ago: Will this put Brown’s head on the line? Adding the latest ICM poll to my collection and filte … more »

Tags: gordon brown, Hazel Blears, Charles Clarke

No. Just No. Just No.3 comments

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: ACPO is no longer tolerable as an organisation. It’s a freefloating lobby for ever-greater aut … more »

Tags: Surveillance, id, home office, Protest, stupid procurement, moral horror, intelligence and stupidity, Biometrics

Planning for my first term in Parliament1 comment

time4change wrote 7 months ago: Last week I tried to have a week off - it didn’t really work out like that. Instead I spent m … more »

Tags: David Miliband, Holgate, Hugh Bayley, James Alexander, James Purnell, John Grogan, John Prescott, Meg Munn, Parliament

The strange case of the Brown-nosing Bristol MPs and the Stalinist sex pest

thebristolblogger wrote 8 months ago: Online Celtic fanzine ETims provides a reminder of the role two Bristol MPs - one current, one form … more »

Tags: Bristol, Labour Party, MPs, Politics, gordon brown, Jean Corston, Dawn Primatolo, sexual harrassment

Guantanamo and the Novel Pragmatism

athinkingman wrote 11 months ago: I may be wrong, but I often find that people who insist on taking a simple strong stance on somet … more »

Tags: Government, Politics, Human Rights, Terrorism, gordon brown, George Bush, Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary, Guantanamo

sportandnews wrote 1 year ago: New faces in huge Cabinet revamp Gordon Brown has appointed Jacqui Smith as Britain … more »

Tags: Sport and breaking news, News, iraq, Tony Blair, George Bush, UK, Politics, Racist, Iraqi Bomb

The Scottish Home Secretary defends the Rushdie knighthood2 comments

David wrote 1 year ago: By way of an ‘I told you so’, here’s a little news item from yesterday I’ve … more »

Tags: British Honours List, British values, Britishness, Culture, Islam, Islamophobia, knighthood, Liberalism, Politics

Ihre Papieren, Bitte!

netherworld wrote 1 year ago: Courtesy of Beau Bo D’Or Warning: Swear blogging alert So, here I am trying to recover from … more »

Tags: Bliar, Civil Liberties

Brown vs McDonnell2 comments

yucca wrote 1 year ago: Brown got what he wanted (or, anyway, what he should have wanted): a contender who cannot win, John … more »

Tags: 2008 presidential elections, blairites, Britain, David Miliband, General Elections, gordon brown, Hillary Rodham Clinton, iraq, John McDonnell

prime-minister-in-waiting2 comments

yucca wrote 1 year ago: David Miliband said yesterday that Brown is “an excellent prime minister in waiting”. Of … more »

Tags: Politics, Britain, Labour Party, gordon brown, Tony Blair, Charles Clarke, alan milburn, New Labour, David Miliband

Brown 2p down v Reid 2 missing terrorists down

John Reid wrote 1 year ago: Nine UK citizens now under control orders Press Association Thursday March 22, 2007 Guardian Unlimit … more »

Tags: Home Secretary

"steal our benefits"2 comments

yucca wrote 1 year ago: New Labour has long adopted conservative policies. Now they have embraced conservative language too … more »

Tags: Politics, Britain, Conservatives, Labour Party, David Cameron, racism, Discrimination, home office, New Labour

David Hicks

netherworld wrote 1 year ago: Many People may know who David Hicks is. He’s the Australian citizen who was arrested in Afgha … more »

Tags: Afghanistan, Torture, Terrorism

ailing authority3 comments

yucca wrote 1 year ago: The Home Office really is falling to pieces (you should do something!). Here’s a extract from … more »

Tags: Politics, Britain, the guardian, home office


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