http://newsjunction.co.uk/news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:17:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over at Guido Fawkes... When Sarah Palin said Obama’s healthcare plan would result in “death panels” that would see bureaucrats making subjective judgements on life and death, she was furiously howled down by Obama supporters. So how should we describe the expert panel of the National Institute for Health and Clinical ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/11/22/government-values-life-6p-minute/% Vince Cable was, according to Socialist Economic Bulletin, "one of the first to call, rightly, for the nationalisation of Northern Rock." Back then the Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman wrote in The Times; The Government dithered for far too long before concluding that Northern Rock had to be nationalised. And in December ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/11/22/tale-vince-cables/% Sinn Fein President and devil lookalike Gerry Adams has started blogging. There's one that won't be appearing in my blogroll links! Worth noting however is the truly odd way Mr Adams refers to himself in the third person so often. Sure sign of a self important egotist. Apart from refering to himself ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/11/16/433/% Labour's poster depicting David Cameron and George Osbourne as the so bad they're funny X Factor twins John and Edward ("Jedward") with the tagline "You won't be laughing if they win" has got a good deal of press coverage, far exceeding the impressions the paid billboards will chalk up. In ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/11/16/labour-jedward/% Dr Rowan Williams said that taxation should not be seen as a way of stifling business or redistributing wealth but helping to make the world a better place in which to live. He called for new levies to be introduced on financial transactions and carbon emissions, and an end to ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/11/16/remember-good-samaritan-good-intentions-money/% The Union Flag... How do you fly yours, Mr Griffin? ...The wrong way up evidently. Doesn't every true patriot know how to fly the flag properly? http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/11/14/nick-griffin-poses-wrong-union-flag/% It has been a bad week. Eight British soldiers died in Afghanistan in just 24 hours. Their deaths take the number of troops killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 184; five higher than the 179 killed in Iraq. It has been the most high intensity fighting British troops have faced ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/07/11/soldiers-buy/% [caption id="attachment_412" align="alignright" width="278" caption="Only a bird brain would bet on a V-shaped recession these days."][/caption]First we talked about whether there would be a recession. Then we talked about who was to blame. Then we talked about what to do about it. There then followed a not so brief interlude ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/07/01/economic-scrabble-recession-edition/% The Conservative Penrith and the Border MP David Maclean is to step down at the next General Election because his multiple sclerosis has worsened this year. The MP was taken by ambulance this week with the support of two medics to vote for a new Commons Speaker following what he ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/06/28/david-maclean-proves-reform-parliament/% [caption id="attachment_403" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Tim Yeo MP - sans neck tie"][/caption]Tim Yeo isn't your typical revolutionary. He comes from Suffolk, writes for Country Life and Golf Weekly Magazines, and is a Conservative former Countryside Minister. But on Monday he struck a blow for freedom - the freedom not to wear ... http://newsjunction.co.uk/news/2009/06/25/erskine-dead-time-ditch-tie-wig/%