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I remember a time around 10 years ago or more when every 6 to 12 months you would hear about some promising break through that promised to b...

Prisons minister Gerry Sutcliffe has said prisoners will abscond, in a debate in Parliament, when question by Nick Herbert Conservative MP f...

If you don't read Dizzy thinks , you should. He has this article on the subject, and got the £206 by reading carefully between the line...

You will no doubt have heard about the latest farce at the Home Office, where it appears that records from other EU countries about convicti...

Apparently MI5 are going to begin emailing terror alerts to people to let them know if the terrorist threat changes. This is information alr...

In what has to be a somewhat unusual move two rats appear to have joined a rapidly sinking whip. These would be two Conservative members of ...

I was frankly a bit sad to hear a few years ago that one f the fuels to the fire that is the civil strife in the Democratic Republic of the ...

Hammersmith & Fulham council is cutting its council tax by 3%. This is good news for council tax payers as council tax accross London ha...

Is an article that I wrote for the Birmingham University Conservative Future blog here . Please have a read.

This story seems to surface from time to time. You can read what the Sunday Telegraph had to say here . Basically it seems that there is a t...

It appears that Tony Blair will say that the manner of Saddam's execution was a bit wrong. This is after Gordon Brown, John Prescott, a...

It appears that the head of the prison service, Phil Wheatley has admitted that his service has no idea of how many escaped prisoners have b...

The Sunday Times carries this story claiming that Israel is planning a tactical nuclear strike on Iran if something is not done about Iran...

Interestingly after john Prescott condemned the nature of the hanging of Saddam Hussein as deplorable last Wednesday, Gordon Brown has joine...

Politicalbetting.com is running a prediction competition for 2007, and here is my entry: On Christmas Day 2007 who will be…? 1. Prime Minist...

I seldom agree with John "Two Shags" Prescott, but here I do. I do not agree with capitol punishment, but if you are going to exec...

I have to say I think every ones heart has to go out to the parents of Ellie Lawrenson. Her tragic and very violent death must be painful. T...

As a smoker I feel heavily put upon these days. I can work in an environment where the air is not fit to breath but can't smoke. I won...

Here are my predictions for 2007: 2007 will start on January the 1st. There will be charges in the Cash for Peerages/Honours scandal. The th...

I have not said anything much about Gerald Ford, who died at 93. Seemed like a good bloke and seemed to do a good job. I was only 8 at the t...