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He went to a Prep school but Adams Grammar is a state school.

Probably not but the thought of you in a menage a trois with Paul Daniels and Phil Collins in some cottage in the south of France must be worth a few thousand votes to Labour, at least.

Any chance of Labour making that an Election pledge ?

Women have been appointed as Chief Whip, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and to the Defence, Health and Education portfolios. There are more women than any other shadow or actual cabinet I can think of and more than twice as many as in Cameron's cabinet. I would have thought that those were...

Buzzer, there were still talks going on about the shadow cabinet earlier today which I am fairly certain is why he did not want to answer the question. This is the latest list I've seen: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/14/jeremy-corbyn-labour-shadow-cabinet-in-full As you will see...

He has not named the full shadow cabinet yet and already has the same number of women as in the actual cabinet. No end to Tory hypocrisy is there ?

A class player and a top man.

Good point about manufacturing. The Tories for the last 30 years seem wedded to finance capital to the exclusion of any idea of productive industry. Corbyn may have a few surprises up his sleeve.

Lebanon has a population of 4.7 million and Jordan 6.7 million. The UK population is over 64 million. I agree the Gulf states, whose obnoxious rulers are supported by our government among others, could do a lot more. However the impact on the UK is small compared to those countries nearest to...

The number of refugees in the Gulf states number in the hundreds. Elsewhere according to the UNHCR: Lebanon hosts 1,154,040 refugees Jordan 654,141 refugees Egypt 236,090 refugees Yemen 257,645 refugees Algeria 94,128 refugees Outside of the Middle East, Pakistan hosts 1,505,525 refugees...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-poor-are-paying-a-bigger-proportion-of-tax-than-the-rich-and-the-gap-is-widening-10353954.html The poorest families in the UK are losing more of their income in tax than any other income group, official statistics have revealed, putting pressure...

A pedant writes..."Dulwich Hamlet"

Other than leaving NATO I and I suspect a significant part of the electorate would support most or all of that. In truth the passage from the beliefs of a particular politician to actual implementation is long and winding.

I think most of us got back in the early hours of today due to delayed flights, trains, etc. Other than the football a great trip (actually we were quite solid if not massively exciting in the first 45 minutes).

Given the flurry of new signings, the Academy at Lancing and a club that looks far more coherent in it's thinking than 12 months ago, are the good people of NSC currently feeling optimistic, pessimistic or somewhere inbetween regarding how we will do in the coming season ? To put my cards on...

Which rare malt would you suggest for Saturday evening ?

Spot on. In 1972 Lord Whitelaw, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, had a group of republican leaders, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, flown to London for secret talks in Chelsea. There were repeated contacts with PIRA and Loyalist terrorists throughout The Troubles...

It may or may not have a bearing on anything but before people get carried away with the notion that voters only vote for right-wing Labour candidates it is worth noting that Under Blair the Labour vote decreased from 13,518,167 in 1997 to 10,724,953 in 2001 and 9,552, 436 in 2005. (Labour got...

The Khmer Rouge came to power due to the destablisation of Cambodia by illegal terror bombing. They murdered large numbers of people. They were kicked out by the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese were invaded by China and subjected to a vindictive trade embargo by the United States. The UK and USA then...

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2014/04/how-thatcher-gave-pol-pot-hand On 17 April, it is 25 years since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. In the calendar of fanaticism, this was Year Zero; as many as two million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were to die as a...