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Robert Peston on faith
21 February 2012
Just as the atheists want to abolish faith, it is back on the agenda again - but in the financial world.
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Rupert Murdoch still pulling the strings
20 February 2012
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch favours Scottish independence, which he has announced on his Twitter account, the social media network.
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What should we learn from the Greek financial crisis?
17 February 2012
BBC’s Newsnight discussed tonight the horror of Greece defaulting on its debt, and the inability of Greece to service its debt over the next decade or more. This is a rock and hard place for everyone concerned.
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Clash of legal jurisdictions as muslim activist is released from prison
13 February 2012
One of the UK’s most extreme muslim activists is to be released from Long Lartin top-security jail today.
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Rick Santorum rattles Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign
8 February 2012
The Republican US presidential candidate’s race has taken a new turn.
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Hester supporting bankers’ bonuses
8 February 2012
In an interview with the BBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland boss has said nothing to alter the bonus culture mentality.
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Does this sound familiar?
31 January 2012
The prophecy of Amos, chapter 8 tells us that the Lord will never forget v7 the sins of profiteering at the expense of the poor vv4-6 and impatience with the Sabbath v5.
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The Big Debate
26 January 2012
The Big Debate on BBC Scotland 25/1/2012 was a big flop.
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David McLetchie opposed to redefining marriage
14 January 2012
The former leader of the Scottish Tories opposes the change in the definition of marriage.
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We want clarity
13 January 2012
It is time for Alex Salmond to come clean on what he means by Independence for Scotland.
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Alex Salmond flushed out
11 January 2012
Alex Salmond has been forced to announce Autumn 2014 as his preferred date for the Referendum on Scottish independence.
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A positive message about marriage
5 January 2012
“Mend it – don’t end it” is the message from a High Court family judge to feuding couples contemplating divorce.
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Join the campaign against Islamic terror
24 December 2011
The Scottish Christian Party has added its voice to the campaign to deliver Youcef Nadarkhani from the death penalty in Iran.
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Why is David Cameron speaking up for Christianity?
17 December 2011
David Cameron has said that the UK is a Christian country “and we should not be afraid to say so”. It is good to hear the Prime Minister articulating a key policy of the Scottish Christian Party.
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Anti-sectarian Bill passed after Alex Salmond’s pressure
16 December 2011
Alex Salmond’s antisectarian Bill was pushed through the Scottish Parliament by 64 to 57 votes.
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Tesco support of London Gay Pride
16 December 2011
The Scottish Christian Party has complained about Tesco’s support of London Gay Pride.
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Can Scotland debate?
13 December 2011
Few people seem aware of the issues at stake in the debate on redefining marriage to include homosexual couples.
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The shot-gun marriage failed
10 December 2011
The europolitical attempt to force more political integration in the European Union has failed to include the UK in this shot-gun marriage.
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Scottish Government Marriage Consultation not Fit for Purpose
9 December 2011
The Scottish Christian Party has published its response to the SNP Government’s consultation on the redefinition of marriage, which was publicised at a recent Press Conference in Inverness.
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Moving the goalposts
8 December 2011
It has transpired that those outside Scotland have been surreptitiously completing the Scottish Government’s questionnaire online.
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The Kirk gets it right - for the most part
1 December 2011
The Church of Scotland has come out against the SNP Scottish Government’s desire to redefine marriage to include homosexual partnerships.
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Lib Dem Scottish leader does not understand
1 December 2011
The Lib Dem Scottish leader has said that he does not understand Christian concerns for marriage.
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Media non-coverage
30 November 2011
The BBC Scotland news gave 20 seconds of coverage to the Scotland for Marriage protest.
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Suggested answers and simplified questionnaire
23 November 2011
The Scottish Christian Party has produced a simplified questionnaire with the answers it recommends to the SNP Scottish Government Consultation on redefining marriage.
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SCP respond to Redefinition of Marriage Consultation
19 November 2011
The Scottish Christian Party has published its response to the SNP Government’s consultation on the redefinition of marriage and adding religious ceremonies to civil partnership registration.
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Is China actually bankrupt?
18 November 2011
A Chinese economics professor has declared China bankrupt.
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Polygamy is already recognised in UK legislation: it is time to close this loophole
17 November 2011
A legal loophole is allowing international law to change the law in the UK.
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Scottish Tories follow suit
4 November 2011
The Scottish Tories have voted for David Cameron’s acolyte as leader of the Scottish Tories.
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Scotland needs a Reformer
2 November 2011
Scotland has many theologians and Christian leaders, but no Reformer.
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Europe's legacy to its children
27 October 2011
European leaders have reached a “three-pronged” agreement which they say is vital to resolving the region’s massive debt crisis.
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Scotland: hold your nerve
21 October 2011
At the SNP Conference today in Inverness, Nicola Sturgeon, the Deputy Leader of the SNP, said that this was a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to win independence”.
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Annual Conference 2011
15 October 2011
The first annual Conference of the Scottish Christian Party was held in Glasgow on 8th October 2011.
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Creeping Constitutional Change gathering momentum
12 October 2011
Our politicians, who can hardly draft equitable laws, nor oversee major projects such as the Scottish Parliament, the Edinburgh trams project, and the Millennium Dome, are tinkering with our constitutional laws.
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The Conservative transformation is complete
5 October 2011
David Cameron, the Leader of the Conservative Party, has defined Conservativism as supportive of “gay marriage”.
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Scottish Tory home truths
3 October 2011
The Scottish Tory leadership debate has throw up some home truths.
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Paedophilia: the next taboo humanists want to break
1 October 2011
A group of American academics are attempting to normalise paedophilia and to make it acceptable.
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Burdening the next generation
1 October 2011
The financial crisis is laying a heavy burden on the next generation.
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Is the Government listening to the SCP?
29 September 2011
The Government has suggested raising the maximum speed limit on the UK’s roads from 70 to 80 mph.
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Eurozone: “too big to fail”?
29 September 2011
The Germans have voted that the eurozone is too big to fail.
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Throwing good money after bad
28 September 2011
The crisis in the eurozone is concentrating minds, but not necessarily in the correct direction because the wrong minds are in charge.
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Wishful thinking: a post-Christian era
27 September 2011
The relentless march of Newspeak aims to remove the Lord Jesus Christ out of daily life - even in the way we write the date.
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Following my Scottish Leader
26 September 2011
Scottish Labour and possibly the Scottish Conservatives are following the Scottish Christian Party lead for distinctly Scottish structural reform to the national Party.
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More police over-reaction
26 September 2011
Police in Lancashire have told the owner of a Christian café that he should stop displaying Bible verses on a TV screen because it is offensive and a crime.
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So the consultation has arrived
3 September 2011
The Scottish Government is consulting on the definition of marriage.
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Has cash had its day?
3 September 2011
It is a worrying development that cash is no longer acceptable as a method of payment in some circumstances.
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When will we ever learn?
27 August 2011
Last night on BBC 2 Newsnight, Charles Moore said that Britain is economically and morally bankrupt.
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Can we rely on the Tories?
26 August 2011
Which way will the Tories and the SNP vote when the question about homosexual ‘marriage’ comes before the Scottish Parliament?
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Scottish Christian Party Annual Conference 2011
23 August 2011
The first SCP Newsletter gives details of the SCP Annual Conference to be held in Glasgow on 8th October 2011.
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Will things ever be the same again?
19 August 2011
We hope not. We don’t want more of the same. The Lord Jesus Christ has a better vision for this world, and we share it.
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The root of the problem
17 August 2011
Commentators are advising that the response to the English city riots must get to the root of the problem.
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Is this the beginning of the right wing backlash?
15 August 2011
David Cameron’s Big Society agenda has been derailed by his Broken Society agenda.
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The certainty of getting caught
11 August 2011
On Question Time tonight it seemed to be agreed that what will stop rioting and looting is the certainty that looters will get caught.
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Biblical comment on English city riots
10 August 2011
Yet again, David Cameron is playing catch-up - this time over the English city riots.
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Keeping our Christian Constitution
8 August 2011
Some Christians seem not to care whether Scotland keeps its Christian constitution or not.
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A second credit crunch?
6 August 2011
Fears about the solvency of the financially stretched southern eurozone states is making it harder for their banks to borrow, which raises the possibility of a second credit crunch.
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E-petitions for the death penalty
6 August 2011
Capital punishment has topped the list of the e-petitions submitted to a new government scheme launched on 3rd August 2011.
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Crisis in the institutional church
5 August 2011
What happens when a national church fails a nation? Who does it serve and who will call it to account?
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The adoption scandal
27 July 2011
Forced adoption is an unspoken scandal which is coming to light too slowly for those affected by it.
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Humility and repentance in the spotlight
21 July 2011
There has been a large display of humility and repentance among politicians and the media in recent days - but is it genuine? There has been a shift of policy but no change of heart. The deck chairs are being moved around the Titanic.
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Who sets the agenda?
16 July 2011
Who is it that sets the national agenda?
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Religion and politics mixing
16 July 2011
At last we have discovered a politician who actually uses the word ‘eternity’ publicly - although she is now a retired politician.
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Misleading teaching on suicide
15 July 2011
Supporters of assisted suicide are taking the law into their own hands.
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Interesting developments at the Equality and Human Rights Commission
13 July 2011
Christian concerns at the unequal equalities legislation is beginning to tell upon the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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Agreed problem, but no diagnosis nor solution
12 July 2011
There is a growing consensus that Britain’s institutions are not fit for purpose, but there is no diagnosis, so how we will find a solution?
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Why do the public trust our institutions?
7 July 2011
Trust is at a premium in public life. The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey explains how things improve with trust, and deteriorate when trust is absent.
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News of the World and the police crisis
6 July 2011
British society is lurching from crisis to crisis.
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Greece and the euro crisis
30 June 2011
Money talks. Second only to violence, money is the global language which everyone understands.
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More Law or more Gospel?
25 June 2011
Should more police resources go into Easterhouse or into the Northern Constabulary?
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Islamic Sharia Council criticises Baroness Cox
18 June 2011
Muslims are engaging actively in politics at various levels.
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Where is fairness and common sense?
16 June 2011
The Lib Dems trumpeted fairness in their recent election campaigns, and the Conservatives trailled common sense in the Scottish election. It is apparent that neither fairness nor common sense is much in evidence.
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Minor Party Scottish Election Analysis
31 May 2011
Of the unelected political Parties in Scotland, the Scottish Christian Party is among the top runners.
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Intolerance of Christianity continues
30 May 2011
A Kent doctor faces losing his job after discussing Christianity with a patient, and another Christian doctor has been denied the right to vote on adoption cases.
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What has politics to do with hell?
14 May 2011
International news had told us about two horrific stories in one day.
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Abstinence education does not work says BHA
14 May 2011
The British Humanist Association (BHA) says that abstinence education does not work.
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SCP election analysis
11 May 2011
The Scottish Christian Party is back on the road in Scottish politics.
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Where now with Scottish politics?
10 May 2011
With a majority SNP government in Holyrood, the question of Scottish independence from England is firmly on the agenda.
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Scottish Election Analysis
9 May 2011
The SNP has had an historic landslide victory in the election to the Scottish Parliament.
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Alex Salmond supports homosexual marriage
5 May 2011
Only days before the Scottish Parliament Election Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National Party, has declared himself in favour of homosexual marriage.
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SNP getting desperate with illegal posters
3 May 2011
The SNP appears spooked by the Scottish Christian Party’s campaign for the second vote.
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Osama bin Laden is dead
2 May 2011
A US special forces operation has killed Osama bin Laden in an expensive re-inforced house in Abbottabad, not far from Pakistan’s foremost military training institute.
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STV interview with Scottish Christian Party Leader
29 April 2011
The Leader of the Scottish Christian Party was interviewed by STV’s political editor Bernard Ponsonby about the Party’s Manifesto for the 2011 Scottish Election.
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Congratulations to the Royal newly-weds
29 April 2011
The Scottish Christian Party welcomes and congratulates the world’s newest and most highly-publicised newly-weds.
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Syria’s Shame
26 April 2011
The Syrian government’s violent and bloody crack-down on its own citizens protesting for change demonstrates how unable this incompetent regime is to govern its own people. This is Syria’s shame and it is an acute embarrassment to many of its population.
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The consumer at heart
25 April 2011
The Scottish Christian Party has put the consumer at the heart of its Holyrood campaign.
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So much for the political process
22 April 2011
Politicians express concern at the low turnout at elections and the lack of engagement by the public, but the latest evidence of non-engagement with the political process comes from the media itself.
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More persecution of Christians
18 April 2011
If Christians thought that persecution was going away, then they are wrong. The Thought Police are alive and well and may soon be in your area.
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Politicians plumb new depths of inanity
16 April 2011
The Government is consulting with Commonwealth countries about the law of succession.
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Legalising homosexual marriage: an unholy alliance
15 April 2011
There are plans afoot to use Holyrood during the next Parliamentary session to redefine marriage to include homosexual partnerships.
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Confusion about marriage
12 April 2011
It seems that many politicians are confused about marriage. It may be something to do with their education.
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How to hold governing parties to account
11 April 2011
The “No to AV campaign” election broadcast highlights the cynicism of parties abandoning their Manifesto.
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Scottish Christian Party standing in all Regions across Scotland
7 April 2011
The Scottish Christian Party has a full complement of candidates standing across all eight Regions in Scotland.
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Danny the Axe-lander blamed for North Sea oil tax raid
30 March 2011
The Lib Dem Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander is being blamed for the cancelling of two North Sea investment programmes with about 40,000 current and future jobs being put at risk.
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Equalities Commission unequal agenda
29 March 2011
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wants teachers to ask children if they are homosexual.
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Highlands and Islands List announced
26 March 2011
The Scottish Christian Party list of candidates for the Highlands and Islands Region has been announced.
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Further BBC downgrading
24 March 2011
It seems that swearing is the politically correct version of modern parlance – at least the BBC has introduced swearing into Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights.
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Judge upholds freedom of speech for Christian doctrine
22 March 2011
In a landmark ruling, a High Court judge has quashed an adjudication by the Advertising Standards Authority that an advertisement which proclaimed sodomy an abomination was homophobic.
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The price of anti-Americanism
17 March 2011
The Americans have changed their mind about imposing a no-fly zone in Libya. The world has seen the price of the anti-Americanism which led to America’s holding back from intervening in Libya. The responsibility laid upon the UN has been shown to be too much for its uneven shoulders, as it has dithered to the point that Gaddafi has recovered from the initial shock of the uprising and is within an ace of suppressing it.
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The end of American policing?
9 March 2011
The world is learning the cost of its complaints about America being the only superpower and the world’s international police force. The unfolding civil war in Libya is exposing the hesitancy of the international community, but the media still want to blame America.
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Why do we trust politicians to make good laws?
8 March 2011
Why do the public trust politicians to make good law? What proof do we have that the average politician can adequately scrutinise proposed legislation? Do constituents question their politicians to see if they can retain and understand lengthy or complicated documents? Even if they have the ability - do they have the time? Yet the main function of politicians in Parliament is to debate, scrutinise, propose and amend laws. They have functions outside Parliament, but the average constituent rarely meets their MP, MSPs or MEPs. When they do, it is often a deferential relationship, rather than viewing politicians as public servants.
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Our hapless Government
7 March 2011
The Tory government’s shambles over Libya continues apace.
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