The smoking ban in England comes into force at 6am tomorrow [Sunday], from which time all enclosed public spaces must be smoke-free, or face a large fine. Some pubs have erected outdoor areas for smokers, and at least one plans simply to provide hi-vis jackets for the use of smokers. And one other plans to [...]

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The Blogpower Awards ceremony will be held in Second Life tomorrow! In less than 24 hours it will be under way! You can click on the image in the sidebar to go straight to the venue.
In the picture above, you can see a few of us in Tom Paine’s Liner Limoncello, named after [...]

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You’ve just become Prime Minister and appointed your new Cabinet and government. How do you celebrate? Release 1,000 prisoners, of course! What better way is there to celebrate than in the manner of kings of old, who would pardon criminals upon their coronation [how apt] and on royal births.
These 1,000 criminals, including burglars, drug dealers [...]

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He’s not a Great Clunking Fist, he’s a very naughty boy Great Clunking Foot:
“You ask a question about how you can work together to solve the debt in the developing world, and ten minutes later he’s still stamping on your head.”- David Cameron on Brown’s McPolitics
Do read the entire article.

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Gordon Brown has announced ministerial jobs for people outside the world of politics in his new government, the idea being to portray himself and his government as open to new ideas, people, and an attempt to de-politicise issues through the appointment of professionals who, if they do not already have peerages, will be given them. [...]

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This Australian advert is certainly trying to suggest that anyway…

via Spare Room

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Before they arrive in Britain, Chinese students picture Britain as the country reflected in classics such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, where men wear top hats and ladies take tea. Instead, they land in a place of chavs and drunken students.
“England is a land where ladies take tea and men wear top hats, Chinese [...]

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Clare Short might take back to Labour Whip, she says:
“I very much hope that this is going to be a new beginning [under Gordon Brown]…We look for a new and better Middle East policy, we’re not so obsessed with being in America’s pocket, and the slimming down of the centralised diktat bureaucracy of the health [...]

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Gordon Brown’s first Cabinet has been announced - with musical chairs pretty much all around, with the only person staying in the same post being Des Browne at the MoD [with Tessa Jowell moving moving from Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport to Minister for the Olympics and out of the regular Cabinet].Prime [...]

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The reshuffle moves on through the rumour mill, with both Patricia Hewitt and Margaret Beckett moving at least out of their current roles, although there is no confirmation yet whether or not they will be moving to another job in government or out of it entirely. I expect that at least one of them will [...]

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