Mehdi's Morning Memo: Sealed With A Wink
Posted 01.02.2013
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UK Politics
Happy New Year and welcome to 2013 - the first year not to contain a repeated digit since 1987. As we wait for MPs to return next week, here are th...
Happy New Year and welcome to 2013 - the first year not to contain a repeated digit since 1987. As we wait for MPs to return next week, here are th...
Chancellor George Osborne blew nearly £1,000 of taxpayers’ cash on a trip to Germany that let him watch his team win the Champions League. The...
The five things you need to know on Thursday 3rd January 2012... 1) CHILD BENEFIT 'CHAOS' Remember the chancellor's controversial decision to sc...
The five things you need to know on Friday 4th January 2012... 1) LABOUR'S NOT-SO-BLANK SHEET OF PAPER Labour leader Ed Miliband is often mocked...
People opposed to onshore wind farms should not have their views "ridden over roughshod", the planning minister has told the energy minister in a priv...
The five things you need to know on Sunday 6th January 2013... 1) 2020? You'll Be Lucky Dozens of Tory backbenchers - as well as the mayor of Lo...
Half a million soldiers, nurses and teachers will have their income slashed under the coalition's benefits crackdown, according to a new report. The c...
The ten things you need to know on Monday 7th January 2013... 1) THE RETURN OF THE DAVE AND NICK SHOW Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it's th...
The ten things you need to know on Tuesday 8th January 2013... 1) DAVE WON'T WIN Last March, I penned a column which was entitled: "Why the odds...
The ten things you need to know on Wednesday 9th January 2013... 1) THE POOR GET POORER. NEXT UP, PENSIONERS Surprise, surprise - from the Huffi...
The ten things you need to know on Thursday 10th January 2013... 1) BARACK OBAMA VS NIGEL FARAGE Yesterday, it was Richard Branson and a bunch...
The ten things you need to know on Friday 11 January 2013... 1% FOR YOU, 32% FOR US Who says MPs are out of touch, eh? From the Mirror's splash:...
Zero Dark Thirty is a well-made and entertaining film but its entire plotline is built on a lie: that the torture of detainees by the CIA produced the intelligence which led the US to Osama Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan. The movie effectively excuses and implicitly condones the torture that was done.
The ten things you need to know on Sunday 13 January 2013... 1) WITHDRAW FROM THE EU? 'MAD,' SAYS PM It feels like the early 1990s, with the pap...
David Cameron thinks it would be ‘mad’ for Britain to leave the EU and is secretly backing a move by Tory MPs to warn of the perils of cutting all...
Tory grandee Ken Clarke is joining forces with Labour peer Lord Mandelson in a historic cross-party bid to turn back the rising tide of Euroscepticism...
The ten things you need to know on Monday 14 January 2013... 1) ARE YOU IN OR OUT? The prime minister David Cameron has been on the Today progra...
The ten things you need to know on Tuesday 15 January 2012.. 1) 'THE GREAT POLITICAL SULK' Last week, the PM and Deputy PM were renewing their...
The ten things you need to know on Wednesday 16 January 2013... 1) 'FIDDLING THE FIGURES' Coalition ministers - led by George Osborne and Iain D...
The ten things you need to know on Thursday 17 January 2013... 1) CABLE VS CAMERON First there was an American diplomat. Then a German politicia...
The ten things you need to know on Friday 18 January 2013... 1) THE WAITING GAME What on earth were the Algerians thinking? From the BBC: ...
The plight of British hostages caught up in a violent siege at a gas facility in the Algerian desert has drawn attention not just to the activities of...
LONDON -- In March 2012, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne jetted off to the United States for a series of meetings a...
The ten things you need to know on Sunday 20 January 2013... 1) 'A VICIOUS AND COWARDLY ATTACK' From the Press Association: "David Cameron ha...
The ten things you need to know on Monday 21 January 2013... 1) A 'JINXED' SPEECH So, it seems the long-awaited, much-delayed, 'tantric' speech ...
