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Sarah Palin done by John Mendelssohn

Tee, hee! A brilliant paeon/peony/pain/pee-on of praise for next US president Sarah Palin by my mate John Mendlessohn. “How a long-time political progressive saw the light and came to embrace common-sense conservatism of the sort promulgated by Gov. Sarah Palin.” Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/

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Ferdinand Mount’s ‘Orwell on the Oligarchs’ lecture: how George would have loved the Tory cuts

Well, I saw this coming a mile off. I knew that Ferdinand Mount was a novelist, Sunday Times columnist, Thatcher-era Tory grandee and former TLS editor when I heard him deliver his talk on ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’ last night at the annual George Orwell Memorial Lecture hosted by Birkbeck. However, I had no idea

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Labour woos UK Chinese in rebranding exercise

Ray Collins (Labour Party General Secretary) and Sonny Leong (Chair, Chinese For Labour) Fancy “refreshing the Labour brand”? The Labour training session at the weekend was a long-overdue attempt, pioneered by Chinese For Labour’s chair Sonny Leong, to engage the Chinese, Britain’s third-largest ethnic minority, in mainstream politics in order to find “credible” candidates for

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