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Disclosure: We'd never even been to a club when we made our first single
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The Iraq Canard
The anti-war Blair rage is subsiding. The proof is that Lord Sumption’s lecture at the London School of Economics on 14 May went unreported. In it, the Supreme Court Justice said:
The great majority of international lawyers of repute considered it [the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003] to be contrary to international law.
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Disclosure: We’d never even been to a club when we made our first single
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Jack Straw and David Davis have a joint article in the Telegraph today, urging the Government to ignore the European Court of Human Rights and to refuse to give convicted prisoners the right to vote.
I agree with them in principle, and draw almost the opposite conclusion. The Government ought to welcome the ruling of what [...]
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As England supporters, we should scorn at any such deciding factor within football. On so many occasions have we watched our team fall foul at a single kick of a football.
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