A nation that stands on ceremony has once again made it through another budget day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, left Number 10 for the short drive to Parliament where he delivered the annual budget report message to a sceptical House of Commons.
The pregame festivities started with the usual snarkfest between the Prime [...]
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Budget Day in the UK
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OMG He’s Here… LOL
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London is all a Twitter as President Obama arrived here three hours ago, walked to the base of the Air Force One staircase then levitated across the tarmac to the amazement of startled onlookers, his red cape flowing beneath his 50,000 watt smile.
OK, I mean the BBC providing a live feed was a bit much [...]
The Brown Mutiny, Chapter One
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It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]
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