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The Daily Telegraph are reporting here that corruption on a massive scale takes place at the EU parliament. The report starts:
“A secret European Parliament report has uncovered “extensive, widespread and criminal abuse” by Euro-MPs of staff allowances worth almost £100 million a year.”
So what steps are the EU taking to stop this theft of taxpayers [...]

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The labour party wants to introduce internal passports.
Imagine that, they are so against individual freedom and liberty that they want to tag everyone and control their movements just like Stalinist Russia used to do.
Some people may think that the above is just me ranting about my dislike of I.D. cards and that I am misrepresenting [...]

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Public Drunkenness

MSN has a good article on public drunkenness here
Public drunkenness, vomit-stained town centres and chronic levels of liver disease are in the news again. Not that any of this is really new. The British have had a reputation for not being able to hold their drink since the 1700s, if not before.
The British Medical Association [...]

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Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba has retired.
This is good news, but it would be much better if Castro had died after a long and very painful illness and Cubans were looking forward to free elections.
But let’s not quibble about that, it’s still a step in the right direction.

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