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David Davis for Freedom has gone live today with a basic outline of his campaign. It will be interesting to see how this grows over the next few weeks.

Meanwhile there's strong support on Conservative Home for his decision to make a principled stand over an issue that many of us feel has up until now been largely ignored by the mainstream media ( Read more... )

In a few minutes Ireland will officially announce the results of the referendum on ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. They're expected to announce that ratification has been rejected ( Read more... )

In breaking news, David Davis has announced that he is resigning his seat in Parliament to force a byelection and will be standing for reelection purely on the issue of yesterday's vote by the Commons in favour of 42 Days Detention Without Charge. It also appears that the Liberal Democrats will not be contesting his seat ( Read more... )

The Climate Change Bill seems to be getting a bit of notice again.

Apparently by reducing our CO2 emissions sixty percent over the next forty-two years we'll be taking bold action to make the planet safe for future generations. It's a worthy goal if we accept the underlying premiss that climate change is primarily the result of human intervention ( Read more... )

( ...but it's what many of us are thinking about Hillary Clinton's campaign )

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Harriet Harmon's blog was hacked. Username: Harriet. Password: Harmon. Priceless.

Like many Londoners, my post this morning included a ballot paper from the Conservative Party for their London Mayoral Candidate selection. Nothing unusual in that as a card-carrying party member (doesn't that have a deliciously Stalinist sound to it?) but this time around the ballot is open to all residents of Greater London irrespective of ( Read more... )

I ran across this odd little snippet from the Telegraph (Jan 2005) and was wondering if anyone knows whether this law is still in place ( Read more... )