Gordon Brown responds to critics over the Lockerbie bomber scandal, and answers questions about new polls showing a commanding lead for the Tories:
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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi blew up a plane. Two hundred and fifty-nine passengers and crew died in unimaginably horrible pain – there’s nothing instant about death by sudden decompression. Eleven people in Lockerbie were killed by debris. They cannot be released from the grave, nor their relatives from their grief.
Hundreds of people spent days collecting hundreds of [...]
Filed under: Gordon Brown, Labour, Politics, Scotland, Terrorism, USA | Tagged: Foreign Policy, Lockerbie, Megrahi, Terrorism | 4 Comments »
When the Government can’t get its own way, it gets nasty. This is, or should be, an accepted fact; we saw Gordon Brown’s coterie’s nastiness in perfect clarity earlier this year when Damian McBride baselessly defamed David Cameron, George Osborne and others in ‘those’ emails. You might have thought that our Prime Minister had learned [...]
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Well, I had a fine time in France. The food was trés magnifique, the wine was superb, and the people were suitably barmy – particularly one crazed tax collector named Collette, who joined me (uninvited) for a few glasses of kriek in the evening sunshine on Saturday. She behaved as though she had ants crawling [...]
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US Senator ‘Sir’ Edward Kennedy has joined six other senators to write a letter to the Scottish Justice Secretary to plead with him not to release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, convicted of murdering 259 people by bombing PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988.
Leaving Megrahi’s conviction and potential early release to one side, I [...]
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Labour’s baseless attacks on the Conservatives over the NHS are becoming tiresome. Dan Hannan expressed a personal opinion on Fox News – not party policy. His views on the NHS no more represent Conservative policy than Dennis Skinner’s ideas about tax policy represent those of the Labour Party. To claim otherwise is simply desperate.
Not only [...]
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Oh dear. Poor, poor Harriet Harman is not having a good month.
Last week, she claimed that Labour had to change its constitution to ensure that one of its top two posts is always held by a woman. Brilliant – the party that used to promote meritocracy now has a deputy leader who thinks that the [...]
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It seems I live a rather charmed life at the moment. Quite apart from Tuesday’s simply glorious trip to see Rusalka at Glyndebourne, this evening I’m off to France for a long, and hopefully very warm, weekend. So, no blogging from me from Thursday evening until Tuesday.
I’ve always been a big fan of France. It’s [...]
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Tom Miller has been selected as Labour’s PPC for Woking.
I’ll say it again, because it nearly made me fall off my chair. Labour has chosen Derek Draper’s jobless bag-carrier to be its PPC in Woking.
I don’t usually comment on candidates, because I think that most people who are willing to fight for their principles are [...]
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This morning, the convicted, unrepentant, sardonic criminal, Ronnie Biggs, awaits release from prison. This man, who escaped from custody and went on to laugh at his sentence as a near-celebrity for decades, is seriously ill, and our terminally inept Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, has decided to release him on ‘compassionate grounds’.
Biggs’ lawyer, Giovanni di Stefano, [...]
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