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JON Cruddas took up a strategic post in the Labour party last week just when a win in 2015 suddenly seems possible. As co-ordinator of the Labour Party policy review he will gather the arsenal of polices with which it will go into the next election. Ther Full Article at Wales Online
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Following my awards for artists who have described meeting the Queen, here are my awards for politicians and diplomats: Boiling with indignation: Tony Benn found his assent to the Privy Council 'terribly degrading' Most Grudging Account of his Induction Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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Bayren Munich 1 Chelsea 1 aet Chelsea win 4-3 on penalties: "I don't believe it. Even if it is true, I still don't believe it." Thus did Bill Shankly greet the news that Glasgow Rangers had been knocked out of the Scottish Cup by Berwick. The teams are d Full Article at Belfast Telegraph
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Thousands of anti-war campaigners in Britain are expected to hold the mass rally in Grovesnor Square at 1:00 PM, expressing their opposition to any tough action against Iran and urging their government to withdraw forces from Afghanistan and stop posing Full Article at Press TV
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One of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) work-in, he was a man of strong views who understood the condition of the world and the importance of changing it. Tony Benn, the then Minister for Technology, records in his diary entry on March 1 Full Article at Herald Scotland
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Choice: Harold Wilson's Labour party promised to hold a referendum on the issue of the European Economic Community in 1974 As we gear up to remember the anniversary of D-Day on June 6th 1944, when British, American and Commonwealth troops stormed the bea Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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The Scottish National Portrait Gallery turned down a portrait of the Labour politician Tony Benn, below, because it was “nonsense” to consider him Scottish, the gallery’s former director has revealed. But it stretched a point to include the late fashion Full Article at The Scotsman
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Unbreakable? Refusing to countenance that the euro could collapse is making the problem worse, argues Simon Lambert. Just how likely is the euro to fall apart? It says a huge amount about the crisis unfolding that we are even throwing that question out i Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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Bill Clinton asking for a massage at Chequers? "Never happened…" Locking a journalist naked in your bathroom? "Complete fabrication…" Trinny and Susannah claiming they turned you down when you went for a job interview? "Bull." Ran an escort agency called Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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JIM CALLAGHAN once threatened to resign as Labour Leader rather than accept Tony Benn's policy of abolishing the House of Lords. Yet the Coalition is planning to replace the upper chamber with a new version based upon a proportional voting system that wo Full Article at The First Post
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Tony Benn used to say it's the issues, not the personalities, that matter in politics. As in so much else he was wrong, as his own personality constantly reminded voters. This weekend's election results in Athens, London and Paris make the point yet agai Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Sacha Baron Cohen's films provoke such an intense physical reaction in me that I sometimes wonder if I might be allergic to them. Bruno and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, are the worst: they make me l Full Article at Dublin Evening Herald
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Sacha Baron Cohen's films provoke such an intense physical reaction in me that I sometimes wonder if I might be allergic to them. Bruno and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan are the worst: they make me la Full Article at DNA India
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Westminster shadow boxing is totally irrelevant, as Tony Benn said over 10 years ago, when he decided not to stand again in order to engage in "real politics." The only effective opposition to the government's policies is by extra-parliamentary struggle Full Article at Morning Star Online
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1 May 2012 Last updated at 19:29 ET The newly refurbished Assembly Rooms are due to reopen in July The men behind two of the Edinburgh Fringe's biggest operations have locked horns over the name used by the newly-refurbished Assembly Rooms. William Burde Full Article at BBC News
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1 May 2012 Last updated at 07:49 ET The newly refurbished Assembly Rooms are due to reopen in July The first public event at the newly refurbished Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh is to be held in July, it has been announced. The venue will open on Saturday 2 Full Article at BBC News
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Time for a quiz question. Last week, who said Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak – Israel's prime minister and defence minister – "are misleading the public on the Iran issue" and making decisions "based on messianic feelings"? Was it (a) Iran's president Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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ONE of the key venues of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the historic Assembly Rooms, is to open again for this summer's event with a one-woman show from the nation's makar, Liz Lochhead. The Fringe programme for the venue, which will re-open on George St Full Article at Herald Scotland
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WWE Hardcore wrestler Mick Foley and veteran Labour politician Tony Benn are among the acts set for a newly refurbished Edinburgh Festival venue. The Assembly Rooms on George Street is to reopen in July following a 9.3m refurbishment. The Fringe venue wi Full Article at Edinburgh News
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26 April 2012 Last updated at 19:20 ET WWE Hardcore wrestler Mick Foley is to perform stand-up comedy WWE Hardcore wrestler Mick Foley and veteran Labour politician Tony Benn are among the acts set for a newly refurbished Edinburgh Festival venue. The As Full Article at BBC News
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Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician and the current President of the Stop the War Coalition. Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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