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The Lib Dems are already paying the price for their role in the coalition in the polls with grim reading to be found in the recent YouGov poll, and the Reuters/IPSOS Mori Political Monitor, as Nick Clegg and the party more generally have become a target for student protest and today the Guardian reports how [...]

This is a cross-post by Shiraz Maher from Standpoint Magazine
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Call me crazy but I don’t think the good people of the Cambridge Union like Gabriel Latner.
I mentioned yesterday how the Union decided to fine Latner 20% of his vote for violating election rules. That violation consisted of campaigning for votes during an interview [...]

The Guardian has a scoop:
British-based men of Afghan origin are spending months at a time inAfghanistan fighting Nato forces before returning to the UK, the Guardian has learned. They also send money to the Taliban.
A Taliban fighter in Dhani-Ghorri in northern Afghanistan last month told the Guardian he lived most of the time in east London, [...]

Hussein al-Alak, whose campaigning background is described here, has a letter in the Morning Star today:
The police say that protests by the English Defence League are “fuelling Islamic extremism” (M Star November 19) with Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate claiming that “this demonstrates how hate breeds hate.”
Quite right.
So why was the “highlight” of one [...]

When interviewed on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Sarah Palin was asked how she would handle the situation that has developed in North Korea.  She responded: “Obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.” The interviewer has to correct her that the allies are South Korean.

Does anyone concur with me that it would be [...]

Only in the UK can you have student revolutionaries so comfortable with their own sense of entitlement that they complain on an ‘alternative media’ website that the police have failed to lay on sufficient mobile toilet facilities for the protesters.
The whinge is illustrated with a photo of a protester taking matters arising from this appalling [...]

I have previously discussed (here, here and here) the antics of Federation of Conservative Students in the mid 1980s. Tim Evans is a leading light in the Libertarian Alliance. In 1989 he produced the documentary film on this link.
Antoine Clarke, who had been on the anarchist wing of the FCS,  argued that  taxation is immoral. [...]

I’ll give Rupert Murdoch this much…
He tolerates this sort of mockery of one of his TV networks on another of his TV networks.

Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, America’s most famous unwed formerly-teenage mom (she recently turned 20), came in third on TV’s “Dancing with the Stars” competition, despite the effort of some rightwing bloggers to push her to the top.
The winner was Jennifer Grey, best known for her role in the movie “Dirty Dancing,” in which she appeared [...]