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After the debate over creationism/evolution. The Onion brings us the "intelligent falling/gravity" debate. You can't get much more satirical than that can you.

Tonight Charles Dundas who stood in the seat for the May General Election was overwhelmingly elected as the PPC for the Livingston by Election in a vote by local party members. He said, "News of my premature candidacy has been greatly exaggerated. However, I am glad that I have the continued support of the Local Party and was tonight selected to contest the forthcoming by election in

The Islwyn constituency seems to have reached centre stage in the silly season. Firstly, there was the case of Irene James' mis-remembered education record, then the former MP for that seat changed his mind once more on devolution, and now I find that the present MP has had a makeover: I wonder if Don is a horse-racing man.

So what is Neil Kinnock up to? Having built his reputation within Wales by campaigning against devolution in 1979, he then supported the Welsh Assembly in 1997. Now, he has reverted to his original default setting - devolution of powers at different paces across Britain would lead to misunderstandings and enmity between the nations and the regions, blah, blah, blah...Frankly, his talk of tensions between nations fostering fears of a break-up of the UK is just nonsense. He knows that devolution is not about independence but empowerment. People need to move at their own pace. They also need to ...

How come the Conservatives' belief in more choice doesn't extend to voting systems?

The climateprediction experiment on my computer has reached August 1812. Napoleon is approaching Moscow. I've checked the weather. The sky above Russia is clear and they are having a heatwave.

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by Jabez Clegg Jackie Ashley, writing in The Guardian has a piece today on Tory Leadership contender Ken Clarke. She believes him to be a serios threat to Labour and therefore, by extention, the candidate liked least by the Progressive Left. Clarke, she feels, could get in touch with Midlands, Middle England, Middle Class anti-liberal voters: "Clarke's guffaw is a dangerous sound." All is not lost though, for she's sure that the Tories will once again fail to recognise this. Or is there perhaps an element of double bluff here? Would Guardian Readers really quite ...

Finally got around at the weekend to seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Very much enjoyed it so it’s only fair to start off with the negatives. Its unfair to compare the film with the very different mis-titled Gene Wilder version - with the notable exception of the Oompa Loompas. Deep Roy works his guts out [...]

I have just found that there is a spam filter on the @parliament.uk domain. This squirrels away emails it thinks are spam. Of course not all of them are spam. Furthermore it doesn't tell the sender that it has trapped spam. What this means is that the @parliament.uk account is actually quite a dangerous one to use. There is absolutely no certainty that email gets to people. Sadly,

Surprise, surprise Labour announces a short list comprised of one gender for the Livingston by Election and there is an outcry. This time however it is because it is an all male short-list. You would have thought out of 40 applicants from across the country there would have been at least one competent woman amongst them. Maybe I'm just naive about the potential of women in politics, too much