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Parliamentarians Expenses
Dave Brown - Independent - 17 October The UK cartoonists continue to hound the MPs and especially if they can use ducks somewhere in the imagery.… more →
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Gordon Brown's Debt
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cogitodexter wrote 6 days ago: You’re not even born now before you owe money to the government to cover their financial black … more →
Putting the $billions into scale
cogitodexter wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve been told about this, a graphical representation of various amounts of money that we hear … more →
Events, dear boy, events.
cogitodexter wrote 3 weeks ago: Events taunt Gordon Brown and he’s about to get another severe lashing from them. The Telegrap … more →
Reckless political 'giveaway' in the offing?
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cogitodexter wrote 4 weeks ago: Or a feeble attemt to shore up the base and try to prevent a cataclism at the election? The Queen … more →
Studies find dental fraud may cost State €8m
saraburke wrote 1 month ago: This article by me appeared in the health supplement in the IRish TImes on 20 October 2009 FRAUDULEN … more →
Parliamentarians Expenses
adamsmith1922 wrote 1 month ago: Dave Brown - Independent - 17 October The UK cartoonists continue to hound the MPs and especially if … more →
Baroness Scotland still in post
cogitodexter wrote 2 months ago: Despite a £5000 fine for breaching a law she herself steered through Parliament. And at the same tim … more →
True leadership key to Africa’s development – Rawlings
jjrawlings wrote 3 months ago: Former President Rawlings in Oslo, Norway Former President Rawlings says the baseline characteristic … more →
Jerry John Rawlings at the University of Oslo, Norway
jjrawlings wrote 3 months ago: Address by Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings (Rtd) former President of Ghana at the University of Oslo, Nor … more →
If you can't beat 'em, fling some mud instead
cogitodexter wrote 5 months ago: News is breaking that the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne is to be investigated by the Parliamenta … more →
Margaret Becket discovers spine (sort of)
cogitodexter wrote 5 months ago: In a defeat for the Government, proposals to make what’s said in the Commons admissible in a c … more →
Can they be serious?
cogitodexter wrote 5 months ago: According to a report in The Times, senior MPs had, on May 19th apparently, actually agreed to block … more →
Cover up or cock up?
cogitodexter wrote 5 months ago: The release of the ‘redacted’ versions of MPs expenses looks, at first glance, like a bl … more →
Public servants don't support their political masters
cogitodexter wrote 6 months ago: In news that will depress Labour Party apparatchiks still further, it seems that the very people who … more →
Is community engagement a solution in search of a problem?
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John Craig-Sharples wrote 6 months ago: For many of us working in local government we have been grappling with what feels like an intractabl … more →
Immigration Scandal: Update #27 Report published
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adamsmith1922 wrote 6 months ago: The Auditor General’s report is on the OAG website in 2 Volumes. Volume 1 can be accessed in P … more →
Immigration Scandal: Update #26 - AG report due
adamsmith1922 wrote 6 months ago: The Dominion Post reports that the Auditor General’s report into various matters in respect of … more →
Chancellor apparently can't count...
cogitodexter wrote 6 months ago: According to the BBC the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Alistair Darling, is to repay his apartment … more →
Labour MP takes with one hand... and with the other.
cogitodexter wrote 6 months ago: Today I read that one of the MPs in my region – Great Yarmouth’s MP, Labour’s Tony … more →
