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Accommodation in Birmingham (ConservativeHome's ToryDiary)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:48:45 GMT

We've received a handful of emails complaining about the cost and scarcity of accommodation in Birmingham for this year's autumn Party Conference. One correspondent said that she was paying double what she has usually paid for seaside accommodation. How are...

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In a credit crunch, we still have to trade with dubious regimes (The Telegraph)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:17:03 GMT

David Cameron is unwise to suggest banning Russians from shopping here.

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Beijing Olympics won't beat London 2012, says Boris Johnson (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:07:59 GMT

London's mayor has said he is convinced 2012 will rival the Beijing games

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Team GB aiming to deliver a knockout blow (Times Online)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:00:04 GMT

No sooner had Boris Johnson joked about dropping the Olympic flag as it is handed over to London this weekend than Great Britain's athletes were being disqualified for messing up a relay baton switch at the Bird's Nest stadium. But it was a rare slip for Team GB, who secured their seventeenth gold medal yesterday, with the promise of more to come in the last three days of competition.

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Leaders who seek readers (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:46:18 GMT

Comment is free: Mark Lawson: JFK did it. Brown does it. And now every aspirant puts out a book. But the psychology is very odd

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Convention fever: MPs fly in hoping to find prescription for success (Times Online)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:00:32 GMT

It used to be said that “when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”. These days, at the slightest sign of a sniffle in the US political process, British MPs catch a plane.

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Boris Johnson London 2012 will match Beijing (The Telegraph)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:22:03 GMT

Perhaps the best performance by a Briton in Beijing came from the Mayor of London in town to receive the Olympic keys in the handover ceremony.

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London Mayor reopens stadium debate (footy247)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:30:57 GMT

Boris Johnson has re-opened the possibility of a Premier League football club taking over the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Olympics.

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Friday 22nd August 2008 (ConservativeHome)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:04:50 GMT

ToryDiary: Accommodation in Birmingham Jeremy Hunt MP on Platform: What I learnt in China PlayPolitical videos: Barack Obama attacks John McCain for owning seven homes and a Swift Boat-style ad hits Barack Obama for links to 1970s terrorists AmericaInTheWorld: There...

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Off to a flying start, Boris Johnson awaits the next hurdle (Times Online)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:29:06 GMT

After a long-haul flight without the flat-bed usually enjoyed by dignitaries, a whistle-stop tour of the city and a ten-course lunch with the Mayor of Beijing, Boris Johnson could have been excused for a slow start in his preliminary event of the Games yesterday.

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Putting on the Olympics (a from l)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:43:00 GMT

Above: the Olympic laurel crown used as an architectural motif on one of our more important public buildings. The British team is currently third in the gold medal table. Given Boris Johnson’s classicist background, perhaps he should welcome the team back to London with a traditional arch of victory (albeit one made of white cardboard and completely recyclable). My immediate boss is the agency’s Creative...

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Tom in the Stocks! (A New Direction for Wirral West)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:31:16 GMT

Fun and Games ….. Cllr Tom Anderson helping raise money….. Top Sport Tom offered to stand in the stocks whilst, well I won’t say who paid to throw the sponges! Safe to say we rasied a few quid for the Overchurch Residents Association. What a fantastic day it was, the army was there paint-balling with the local [...]

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Conservatives to tackle unfairness by cutting poor households’ energy bills by up to £100 a year (A New Direction for Wirral West)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:39:04 GMT

As part of the Conservative Party’s campaign on fairness, George Osborne and Alan Duncan today announce that a Conservative government will reform Post Office Card Accounts to enable families without bank accounts to benefit from the lower energy and water tariffs offered to customers paying by direct debit. It is estimated that this could cut the [...]

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Boris in Beijing (MayorWatch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:59:05 GMT

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has been meeting with his Beijing counterpart Guo Jinlong, to discuss lessons London can learn from Beijing's successful hosting of the Olympics.

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A victory for common sense! (Curly's Corner Shop, the blog!)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:58:06 GMT

South Tyneside to lead way in photographer’s rights dispute I have had a very fruitful and meaningful meeting with Tony Duggan, South Tyneside’s Head of Cultural Services this afternoon, following the world wide protests that erupted after this post and this picture appearing in South Shields Daily Photo. The background to the story involves a number of [...]

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Olympics: Boris Johnson in Beijing (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:59:43 GMT

It's been a mixed week for Boris Johnson. But he remains an utterly magnetic politician

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Boris As Hezza. Piffle? (Boulton & Co.)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:43:04 GMT

Just what is going on with David Cameron and Boris Johnson? Only a couple of days ago the London Mayor risked the wrath his party leader when he said Mr Cameron's claim of a broken society was "piffle" (not an "inverted pyramid of piffle"... there are clearly differing orders of piffle). And in tomorrow's edition of Total Politics , when asked if he would want to be party leader Mr Johnson said he...

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Prem Sikka: Conservative ideology is why Britain is failing (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Prem Sikka: George Osborne blames the state for the country's woes, but they are the result of Labour's enthusiastic embrace of Tory ideology

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The real Olympic medal table (Not a sheep)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:30:00 GMT

I was wondering how the UK's medal haul would compare on a by population basis, and so I was pleased to find Channel 4's alternative table generator . Of course being Channel 4, as well as a population comparative (currently topped by Jamaica, Slovenia and Bahrain) they have comparisons by GDP (fair enough - currently topped by North Korea, Zimbabwe and Jamaica), by "US ordering" which is by total...

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London mayor vows spectacular 2012 (Financial Time)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:43:00 GMT

Boris Johnson bowls into Beijing promising both a spectacular and a cost-conscious London Olympics and saying he does not feel 'intimidated' by the standards set by China

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