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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 would... Full Article at The First Post
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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 again... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Tony Benn's daughter, the Hon Melissa Benn, and Alastair Campbell's partner, Fiona Millar . . . well-connected media types from London's most privileged circles
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After reading history at Christ's College, Cambridge, Baron Cohen studied for a year under the French clown Philippe Gaulier. In the 1960s, Gaulier and Jacques Lecoq revived a long-forgotten style of comedy: buffoonery.He has been acting the buffoon... Full Article at Dublin Evening Herald
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He has been acting the buffoon ever since. Think of Ali G's interview with Tony Benn, in which the Old Labour grandee railed against his suggestion that unions call strikes "cause they is lazy and wanna chill", or Bruno's trip to Lebanon, where he... Full Article at DNA India
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The only effective opposition to the government's policies is by extra-parliamentary struggle - demos, strikes, organised civil disobedience on such a scale as to make the country ungovernable. Rather than repeat previously unsuccessful attempts to... Full Article at Morning Star Online
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Salt and Sauce, of which Mr Sheppard is the director, to operate the George Street venue during the Fringe. Mr Sheppard told the BBC Scotland news website Mr Burdett-Coutts's request to change its name was "stunningly arrogant". WWE Hardcore wrestler... 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... Full Article at BBC News
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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, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad;... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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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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