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Election 2010 Lib Dems Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Isn’t

by AT on April 27, 2010

Vince Cable of the Liberal Democrats squirms under intense questioning about party donations

Saint Cable, his faith and their cash.

Favourite uncle Vince Cable and his Lib Dems are going to put a stop to political parties taking donations from thieves and fraudsters. Unorthodox and very welcome, you might think.

Of course let’s just skip over the admitted fact all the parties have been feeding off dodgy dough up to this point. Provided lessons are learned, what’s a little dirty money between ravenous, cash guzzling pigs?
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Money Bombs

by AT on August 21, 2009

In a free fraud zone you can steal anything you like. Channel4’s Dispatches investigates Iraq’s missing billions.
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Politicial Fantasies

by AT on August 19, 2009

The Power of Nightmares. How the politicians reinvented themselves by preying on your darkest fears.
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Corporate Psycho

by AT on August 17, 2009

If a corporation was a living, breathing being, what sort of person would it be? Not somebody you’d want to meet in a dark alley.
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Politicians Still Don’t Get It

August 16, 2009

Alan Duncan, shadow leader of the Commons, has been forced to apologise following his recent indiscreet remarks about the expenses scandal.
Apparently he feels he’s been “treated like shit” by the public, been “forced to live on rations” since the trough has temporarily been hidden and concludes the “world has gone mad” in response to his [...]

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War With Extra Gravy

August 14, 2009

Why do we go to war? For liberty, justice, humanitarianism? To promote peace? That’s what the sales pitch tells us.
Do the invariably rich and powerful men who make the decision to go to war really spend human lives and mountains of money because they are concerned for the fate of their fellow man? It’s [...]

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