Hillary says that she won’t be “bullied out” of the race for the White House, saying that the “big boys” - such as Senators Chris Dodd and Pat Leahy and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who are all key Obama allies - are trying to push her out of the Democratic race because she [...]

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Should the UK adopt a new United Nations treaty on disabilities?
The government has been urged by a charity to ratify fully an international treaty on disability.
Yet another external treaty to cover internal issues!
In 2007, the UK became one of the first countries to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities after [...]

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House prices are falling.
Home owners could see 25 per cent wiped off the value of their properties within two years, a leading economist has warned…The prediction came as a property market survey found house prices were falling in more than a quarter of the post codes in the country…It is the sixth month in a [...]

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There’s no Weekly Blog Posts this week. I haven’t had the time [or, frankly, the inclination] this week to keep up with blogs.
It’ll be back next week.

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Art by Sean Bonner, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license.

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When The ThunderDragon asked me if I’d consider posting a weekly guest post at weekends, when the news is (theoretically) quieter and there’s less to talk about, I asked if there was anything particular theme to stick by - or if I could just “go off on one”. I was told I could just go [...]

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Sometimes you read headlines and can’t help but think “WTF?” A couple of these were around today:
“MoD admit human rights breach” [as it appeared on the website link, rather than on the page itself]. I mean, surely a “breach” is a bit of an understatement in regards to this abuse of a human being which [...]

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Gordon Brown did what he was told.
He got lost.
Now, if only he’d do what we tell him to do and fuck off.

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Series 4 of the new Doctor Who is starting very very soon! Saturday 5 April at 6.20pm. Just over a week away.
I can’t wait! It looks so so so good! All of the new series companions are back Donna [from the Christmas Special before last], Martha, and even Rose! It’s so close, and I just [...]

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I can’t help but think that this would just be a waste of police time. We pay the police to do this for us. To know and understand the problems in a community and to deal with it. It may well sound good to say:
Every community of the country is going to have neighbourhood policing [...]

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