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The Mid Term Elections May Not Be Cause For Republican celebration In The Long Term

Right wing blogs and columnists are getting themselves in a state of near hysterical excitement about the widely expected Republican gains in tonight’s mid term elections.  Janet Daley has talked about a ‘new American Revolution’ and Tim Montgomerie has blogged … Continue reading

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Challenging vested interests

“We are all in this together” George Osborne told us in 2009. We now know that ‘this’ is a £156billion black hole. It’s the equivalent of more than £31,000 for every person in employment. Every household will pay £1,896 this … Continue reading

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Mystic Betapolitics looks at tonight’s debate

Phase one of the election campaign is over. The parties have released their manifestos and tried to frame the debate. It is an old political tactic for a party to attempt to get the media, thus the public, to concentrate … Continue reading

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Saluting The Passage Of US Health Care Reform

In American politics, it all too often looks like tribalism, political positioning and gridlock are the order of the day – with all too little actually getting done.  Last week, this impression was fundamentally left for dust as Barack Obama … Continue reading

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Is the internet a hormonal teenager?

During a campaign every party strives to gain media coverage. According to some bloggers there is a battle raging between ‘new’, online forms of communication, and ‘old’, static ways of transmitting news. The truth is more incestuous. Many political blogstars … Continue reading

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