Gordon : “I Won’t Let You Down”

by Guido Fawkes March 10, 2010

Social mobility down.  Youth unemployment up.  Prudence, abandoned.  Deficit at disastrous levels.  Last major country out of recession. Credit rating downgraded.  The country is broke.  The lies, the bullying, the dithering, the politics of destruction.
Too late.

Tagged: Anyone But Gordon

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Quote of the Day

by Guido Fawkes March 10, 2010

Michael Wolff writes…

“In Conservative shorthand, Osborne, the brilliant tactician, will become the brains of the party; Boris Johnson, the party’s most charismatic figure, its soul; and Cameron, the most media-ready of the new blood, its face.”

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Wire Up Your Customer Base

by chrisbrogan March 10, 2010

My friend Mick Galuski is sneaky. Every Wednesday, he sends a direct message of a TwitPic of MY weekly comics. Not some weekly comics. MY weekly comics. He knows that I’ll want them. He knows that I’ll get to them soon as I can. And lately, he knows that I’ll send Kat when I’m [...]

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Einstein’s masterpiece on display for the first time

by Amanda Gefter March 10, 2010

A handwritten manuscript laying out the foundations of Einstein’s theory of general relativity is finally available for public viewing

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Sticks in Your Teeth

by Guido Fawkes March 10, 2010

Never say that Guido is not willing to correct mistakes:
SWINSON, Jo to guido.fawkes
10:03 PM
In answer to the question you posed yesterday on the Guido Fawkes blog at 3:25pm: No.
I only claimed for one item on that receipt, for which as you report the Fees Office declined to reimburse me, a decision which I fully accepted.
As [...]

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Staggering Hypocrisy

by guidofawkes March 10, 2010

Given what a shining New Statesman’s James Macintyre took to top freelance totty Rowenna Davis, it was only going to be a matter of time before she ended up writing for the struggling magazine. Last month she wrote a piece slamming parliamentarian’s use of unpaid interns suggesting that “MPs’ dependence on unpaid interns gives those from [...]

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YBF Continue a Noble Tradition

by guidofawkes March 9, 2010

The Guardian have tried doing a hatchet job on right-wing kiddy trainers the Young Britons’ Foundation.  Apparently YBF acolytes visited a firing range while in the U.S. to shoot off some AK-47s, so this means Dave is going to repeal the handgun ban. Well that was the line pumped by one Mrs Bob Marshall-Andrews, the [...]

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Quote of the Day

by guidofawkes March 9, 2010

Ed Vaizey told Vanity Fair…
“Cameron is, I believe, much more conservative by nature than he acts, or than he is forced to be by political exigency.”

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Ashcroft v Whelan

by Guido Fawkes March 9, 2010

Ashcroft’s commercial links to ConservativeHome, PoliticsHome and Iain Dale are getting a lot of coverage, not least in the Guardian this morning.  People should not forget that Charlie Whelan’s Unite union funds LabourList and LeftFootForward is also union funded.
For the avoidance of doubt, Guido’s blog is an editorially independent, for profit enterprise.  If James Murdoch, [...]

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Lord Paul Now Says He’ll Give-Up Non-Dom Status What About Lakshmi Mittal?

by Guido Fawkes March 9, 2010

So Lord Swraj Paul has fallen into line with Ashcroft.  However Lakshmi Mittal has given even more – some £4 million pounds to the Labour Party tax free – shouldn’t he or the Labour Party pay tax on that sum?
Guido has identified £10,596,751 in non-dom donations to the Labour Party from donors who have avoided [...]

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Extreme physics at the ends of the earth

by Amanda Gefter March 9, 2010

Anil Ananthaswamy visits some of the bleakest locations on Earth to explore the most tantalising mysteries of the cosmos in The Edge of Physics

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Video: Extreme physics

by Amanda Gefter March 9, 2010

Check out video footage of Anil Ananthaswamy’s journeys to some of the world’s most extreme locales where physics experiments are underway

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The factory in the center

by Seth Godin March 9, 2010

Old time factories had a linear layout, because there was just one steam engine driving one drive shaft. Every machine in the shop had to line up under the shaft (connected by a pulley) in order to get power. That…

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Night at the museum

by Amanda Gefter March 9, 2010

Photographer Richard Barnes explains the allure of museums for artists and why nothing beats the renovation of an old-fashioned diorama

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Little BIG Things – Tom Peters – Video Book Review

by chrisbrogan March 9, 2010

I love Tom Peters. He’s gotten me in trouble for years. Well, his books have. I finally got to have lunch with him, and then see him keynote. The affair just grows and grows. And now, Tom’s done the whole “compile some good blog posts into a better book” thing. It’s awesome. His new book, [...]

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Ashcroft Backlash Time

by Guido Fawkes March 9, 2010

There is growing resentment in some quarters with Michael Ashcroft, the feeling is that his Lordship has unnecessarily made difficulties for the Tories by waiting till this late moment to come clean.
There is also a concern that in deciding to sue, at this time, the Indy (over allegations of corruption) he is guaranteeing more bad headlines [...]

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Guy News : Lord Paul’s Pension Steel

by guidofawkes March 8, 2010

This week’s Guy News interviewed Sam Dunkerley, a pensioner who worked at an engineering firm taken over by Gordon’s non-domiciled financial backer, Lord Swraj Paul. Emily reports on what happened to the firm’s pension fund and how bitter Mr Dunkerley feels about Lord Paul’s donations to the Labour Party: “Lord Paul has been [...]

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What You Can Do About Batten Disease

by chrisbrogan March 8, 2010

My friend, Chris Hall, has told me about Batten Disease, an illness that strikes down children, most often in the 4-10 year-old age range. Chris’s son, Matthew, passed away from the disease a short while ago. They’ve set up a Facebook group about their son, and about Batten Disease, to raise awareness.
Chris told me, [...]

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This Is What a Feminist Looks Like

by guidofawkes March 8, 2010

Sticking with the International Women’s Day theme, Guido had to chuckle when he saw that Jo Swinson, the chairman of the Liberal Democrat’s “Real Women” campaign, will be chairing a panel of feminists today. The Campaign for Body Confidence will look into “combating body image pressure felt by women and girls today.” Funny Ms. Swinson [...]

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Single Parents Aren’t Earning Enough

by chrisbrogan March 8, 2010

I just read a study produced by the Crittenton Women’s Union that shows that a single parent in Massachusetts needs approximately $68,000 a year to raise a toddler and a school-age kid. (Hat tip WBUR Morning Edition). Most single parents (primarily women) aren’t earning even half that in Massachusetts. It’s a tough challenge, and also [...]

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