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Trouble for smug consumer 'Watchdog'…

Smart-arse BBC ‘Watchdog’ presenter Julia Bradbury seems to have been caught out in a £20,000 air miles ‘racket’, according to the Independent. Funny how these things always happen to people we knew we didn’t quite trust for some reason, but couldn’t put our finger on why. Ms Bradbury always comes across to us as a

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Blunkett admits ID card error

Fair enough …it takes a brave man to admit his mistakes, and all that. David Blunkett – the former Labour Home Secretary who actually introduced the idea of identity cards – now realises that the idea was big-brother-gone-mad and that compulsory ID cards for everyone is not the way to go. Just give them to

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Let's make it an EARLY summer of rage, then?

So we’re told that the police expect a ‘summer of rage’ against spiralling unemployment, bankers and the failure to protect British jobs from immigrants and foreigners. Well, let’s make it sooner than that and have an early summer this year, shall we? And while we’re at it, how about protesting against the vulture capitalism of

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Desperate Cameron plays the 'lower, lower!' game…

He never gives up, does he? Tory ‘call me Dave’ Cameron – descended from King William IV – really thinks that the way to curry favour with the British public is to play the ‘lower, lower!’ game on bank bonuses.  Dave is trying to underbid the government on the banks’ bonus payout shambles, which just

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