Fernando Lugo rides the red tsunami
This isn't a red tide: a tide rises gradually. What we are witnessing in South America is a scarlet tsunami: a towering wave crashing across the continent, pounding political structures to rubble.
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A chance for the Lords to justify their existence
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/587311/a-chance-for-the-lords-to-justify-their-existence.thtml
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Labour's oaths and flags do not a nation make
Lord Goldsmith's proposals for flags and national days and citizenship oaths are almost a Left-wing parody of how Right-wingers are meant to think. Labour is an unconvincing latecomer to patriotism and, as such, it tends to go for the most ham-fisted and ham-acted variety.
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MPs can't distinguish right from legal
Peter Hain has made history: his is the first British ministerial scalp to have been claimed by a blogger.
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EU treaty censored by Euro-federalists
Shall I tell you the most annoying thing about Eurocrats? It's not their readiness to toss aside inconvenient referendum results, nor their intolerance of dissent. No, the truly maddening thing about them is the flagrancy with which they break their own rules.
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