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A Hobson's choice for "the feartie" PM

Thurs Nae Limit

Independence

Compare and contrast

2,300 UK military involved in Libya

Boris Island A Penal Settlement For Taxpayers

Scotland's Economic Future

When yes means yes

Warsi

Owned

Hootsmon Headlines

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Land of mist and sophistry ... and corruption?

Jamie Oliver - Food industry shill

Who do you believe?

Quote of the Day

Fox Gone

Indignant or Occupy?

Apple Day 2011

Health and Safety rules cost church £500 to change £2 light bulbs

The Guardian's 'Disunited Kingdom' series

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Statement of the bleeding obvious

Is Britishness now doomed?

Friday Illusion (very short video)

The truth about trains

To take back power we need to change focus

Having no money means you have no money

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Are tax cuts for the lowest paid progressive? Er, Yes.

ABC Interviews "Future President" (video)

Give Fate A Chance

The Art Of Supression

Clean energy credits tarnished

Ben Parkinson and the Military Covenant

The assassination of Rory Weal

New Railway Plan 

A Challenge

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Until the Day of Judgement

How Scottish Labour can build its own identity

China To Govern Australia and New Zealand

The Great Train Robbery was peanuts...

Start executing, please

Stench

From socialist hero ... to zero

How time flies

Clegg: right but wrong

That anti-sectarianism Bill in full...

Surveillance: the other side of the lens

And now Greenpeace is writing the IPCC reports

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Edinburgh's Millennium Dome

Specialist Subject?  The Bleeding Obvious

The Fraser Case

The Ballad of Elliot Morley

Nowhere left to hide?

Iranian One Night Stands

Rajan Tata, Chorus Steel and the idiot

The Problem Began When the Invention of the Spear Reduced the Price of Food

Is College Worth It?

Global Government

Now I'm off to play with my new hi-tech keyboard.  I only wanted a digital piano but they require a permanent space and I preferred something which I could move room to room as family atmosphere permits - my keyboard skills do not create joy in everyone's heart and I've yet to conquer that.  The machine, which arrived today, has so many buttons of varying shapes and sizes, I foresee hours of 'fun' understanding the handbook.

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Raedwald - It's not just years that kill

A Very Public Sociologist - Top 100 Worst Blogs Poll

Witterings from Witney - Dance Me to the End of Love

Big Government - Faber: Nations will print money, go bust, go to war ...

The Idle Pen Pusher - Green Investment Bank Deception

Mrs Rigby Says - Battle of, and for, Britain

The Foundary - Cap and Trade Was Never About Climate

Karthik Reddy (adamsmith.org) - Gay marriage, rights and privatization

Reason.com - McDonald's to Happy Meal Haters: Drop Dead!

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Two bloggers have hung up their keyboards recently. Both were on my regular reading list and will certainly be missed. They are Ian Hamilton QC and Yapping YouSuf who has now made his blog invitation only. I'd like to thank them for contributing to my knowledge and for providing access to quality debate.

This week's choices:

Alison Prince - The proper use of hot air

Slate - Why e-books will never replace real books

Burning Our Money - Game Changers

Taki's Magazine - Prince Charles saves Chelsea Barracks

The Cynical Tendency - Affairs of State

All Seeing Eye - A New Scottish First Minister

Tim Ambler (ASI) - The Coalition has its head firmly in the EU sand

Aangirfan - Teach Us To Sit Still

The Idle Pen Pusher - Prison Fails

Police Inspector Blog - Shine forth upon our crowded hills

Power and its Minions - 'Significant' UK Scientific Breakthrough

If anyone has written or read a post they would like mentioned in this weekly listing please email me. I do my best to read as many blogs as possible but often many good posts are missed.

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Calling England - MPs shamed into apology

Think Defence - What does £2 billion buy these days?

Old Holborn - Big Issue, Sir?

13th Spitfire - Talk at the IEA

A Tangled Web - The Darling Buds of May

Mrs Rigby Says - Fleas have rights too!

Captain Ranty - Tips for ConDems

The Boiling Frog - EU Budget Must Be Cut

Your Freedom and Ours - If at first you don't succeed

Scot Goes Pop - Salmond still a class apart

Another side of Lesley Riddoch - The 'one election away from victory' podcast

A Very British Dude - Labour's Desperate Spin

Not a Sheep - Global Warming

Idle Pen Pusher - Budget Verdict B

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Calum Cashley - Holier than who?

Charlotte Bowyer - Time to rethink prostitution

ConservativeHome - Andrew Lansley rejects minimum unit pricing of alcohol

Pseudepigrapha - Hootsmon Headlines

Go Lassie Go - Economic powers or full independence?

Lallands Peat Worrier - Scottish Independence "Tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow..."

J Arthur MacNumpty - New appointments

Welcome to my world - Screens please nurse

A Rabbit's Eye View of the Hyperborean North - Pearl Mussel Theft in Scottish Rivers

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Catosays - Have a warm day!

Constantly Furious - Off Your Trolleys

A Rabbit's Eye View - It Is All Within the Rules

Dizzy Thinks - Will someone please rid us of international development?

J Arthur MacNumpty - A Vision of the Scottish Tory Frontbench

Think Defence - A gentle reminder

Devil's Knife - In Europe, ruled by Europe...

Munguin's Republic - A wee note for Jim Murphy

Dick Puddlecote - There's None so Blind as a Scottish Publican

Rantin Rab - Welcome to my scheme

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Caledonian Comment - Fair Treatment for all the Parties and Politicians

13th Spitfire - Gay as Christmas or Mr Grayling?

Mrs Rigby - UOTC numbers fall by more than 50%

Scotland Unspun - Scotland is Viable, Britain is Not!

Eric Joyce - What's the point of the Lib Dems?

Radio Free Britain - At least one Idenitarian MEP spotted the Bilderbergers

Go Lassie Go - Is that all there is? TV election coverage in Scotland

Oh What Now! - Nursery rhymes won't die out if we keep them updated

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Aangirfan - Obama and Blair were meant to come to power. Salmond was not?

Centurean2's Weblog - The United Nations Exposed: A View From Within

Grumpy Optimist - Byers et al - what do you expect?

Jan Boucek (ASI) - My ruined weekend

Joyce McMillan - Declining marriage rates and celeb weddings

Letters from a Tory - The next target

Police Inspector Blog - Make the lie big, make it simple and keep saying it

Slate - Tear Down That Wall

The Daily Rant - A Sense of Scottishness

ukwebspider - Is looking for advice/help

underdogs bite upwards - Paved with good intentions

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All Seeing Eye - Carbon and blogs

Brownlie - Yes, First Minister

Calling England - What Has Europe Done for Us?

Coffee House (Daniel Korsi) - A welcome return of defence diplomacy

Don to Earth - It bothers me that I have to go

Letters from a Tory - First they came for the communists...

Newsnet - Murphy apologises

RantinRab - Quango-tastic Glasgow style

Scotland - A 60% increase in oil and gas

Start Up Cafe - The Saltire Fellowship

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Barking Moonbat - Ian Blair and Azad Ali

Burning Our Money - Her Majesty's Worst Ever PM

Corrugated Soundbite - Learned helplessness

Captain Ranty - Hey Teacher! Leave Them Kids Alone!

Craig Murray - Control Orders

Fausty's Blog - Speech by Geert Wilders in Almere

John Redwood - Sell the foreign and investment banks taxpayers own

OldRightie - You and Me

SNP Tactical Voting - We need to talk about England

The Cynical Tendency - Water, water everywhere - Plumbers and Politicians

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Aangirfan -  Turkey to be Split Up

Barking Moonbat Early Warning System -  School Spied on Pupils Through Webcams

Counting Cats in Zanzibar -  Tracy Gets It

Cynical Tendency -  Are We Greeks or Romans?

Dr Grumble -  What can you see?


Joyce McMillan -  Spontaneous, Genuine or Just Plain Repellent


Lobbydog - Reform will have to be fought for


Letters from a Tory -  Don't Look so Smug Darling


Man in a Shed -  How state-funded climate hysteria works


Oh What NOW! -  Sheer Arrogance


The Anger of a Quiet Man -  The beam in your own eye

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A Tangled Web - A Family Affair

Boballs - NI Politics? Stop the world, I want off...

Idle Pen Pusher - EU - Time to Leave

John Redwood - The bedding plant murders

Old Rightie - The West's Banker?

Muffled Vociferation - Wilders on Trial

Old Holborn - Filthy Lucre

RantinRab - The Madness that is the EU Part 1

The Anger of a Quiet Man - This is where libertarianism and legalisation would have worked.

The Big Dollop - The Anger of the Silent Majority

WhollyRude - The Scottish Suppression of Information Act

13th Spitfire - Conservative Policy - another one bites the dust

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Subrosa's Super Seven blogs

Ampers Rants - Jobs for the Boys

Caledonian Comment - Cancel this Copenhagen Climate Change Farce Right Now

Lallands Peat Worrier - Irish (un) parliamentary language

Little Man in a Torque - Jack Straw Denies Devolution FOI Request

PRWatch.org - Scientist Warns Against Climate Compromise (not a blog but interesting)

Radio Free Britain - Brown needs to help with Afghan postal surge

scunnertnation - World Health Organisation - Bent?

A glass of glüwein to:

Calling England - PMQs: Verdict (have a tissue handy)

Dick Puddlecote - Traitors Among Us

EU Referendum - A political contraceptive

Late addition: The Daily Politics - Question Time for the BBC

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Bucket of Tongues - Common Fisheries Policy

Calling England - Post of the week

Captain Ranty - Tax or Theft?

Ian Hamilton QC - Bedmates

Muffled Vociferation - UAF are the New Nazis

Scot goes Pop - Politics is driven either by emotion or a thirst for power - which do you prefer?

Watching History - Copenhagen

White Pudding Suppers to:

EU Referendum - Appalling Bad Judgement

Munguin's Republic - The SNP alone will oppose nuclear power and WMDs

Two Doctors - Why votes at 16 matter

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Subrosa's Super Seven blogs

Advanced Media Watch - Scotland's First Minister

Barking Moonbat - Rats that haven't left the nest...

Caledonian Comment - In politics sometimes the losers are the real winners

Craig Murray - And How Many More Body Bags Are They Sending?

Fitaloon - A Story of EU 'Co-operation'

Ideas of Civilisation - Politics without detail or understanding

Very British Dude - Any tartan paint left Quartermaster?

A choice of curries for the following:

And there was me thinking ... - It's art Jim, but not as we know it

Charlotte Gore - Why I don't touch local politics

David Forward - I would like to be incandescent with rage

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