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Last updated: 11th March, 2010 09:00am

Taxpayer-funded designer handbags at dawn

THE nearer we get to the end of the phoney war and the commencement of genuine electoral hostilities so the stench of hypocrisy intensifies.

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Last updated: 4th March, 2010 11:00am

Stop the barbarism and start the reform

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WHEN will we stop treating the NHS like some spoiled brat who must be indulged to the full to ensure all the toys don't disappear from the pram in some epic tantrum?

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Last updated: 25th February, 2010 11:00am

Who's voting for identity safeguards?

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SHAMEFUL. Somebody named Clinton Proud's wiped out 25 years of my life, if not my entire existence.

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Last updated: 18th February, 2010 01:42pm

Sadly this war is just not cricket

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THE three years in which erstwhile defence secretary John Reid declared Britain would be happy to leave Afghanistan "without firing one shot" will soon become four.

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Last updated: 12th February, 2010 01:00pm

There'll be more tears before second-home time

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GOOD to see the aristocracy, either real or manufactured, can hold their own when it comes to dipping into the public purse.

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Last updated: 5th February, 2010 09:00am

His left hand knows exactly what his right is doing

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HOWEVER down in the mouth you're feeling about the temperature or the economy there is one major consolation.

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Last updated: 28th January, 2010 09:00am

First an earthquake, now a media tsunami

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GOD knows the poor wretched people of Haiti had more than their fair share of misery before the earthquake struck.

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Last updated: 21st January, 2010 08:00am

Politicians today are the stuff of 'Yes, Minister'

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HAS IT sunk in yet that the duplicity, lies, misrepresentation, hyperbole, waffle and downright tosh are already at flood levels and the election campaign hasn't even officially begun?

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Last updated: 14th January, 2010 09:00am

When you're on skid row, keep shovelling

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SOME thoughts, neither romantic nor appreciative, and a few Dos and Don'ts from this past wintry week...

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Last updated: 7th January, 2010 10:00am

The thin veil of the war on terror is shattered

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SINCE Christmas Day the sound of stable doors slamming shut has been almost deafening.

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