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20/09/02 - "Evening Post - Iraq"
Parliament’s debate on Iraq will be caught between two cynical extremes. Saddam Hussain will do whatever it takes to avoid a war. George Bush is no less determined to do
whatever it takes to avoid a peace.
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15/10/92 "So Arthur Was Right All Along"
Lets not beat about the bush. Arthur Scargill was wrong.
In 1984 he told us the Government would cut the mining industry
down to 60 pits. Silly Old Arthur. only he'd said that we would now be cut down to 20. The trouble is,
we wouldn't have believed him. Silly old us.
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15/10/92 "Vision That MP's Lack"
OUT of the early morning mist a small armada‐of, coaches, cars and trains began to converge on London. It was not bout "shopping early for Christmas", but an expression of
public outrage at the Government's pit closure programme.
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29/10/92 "Abuzz With Good Sense"
PARLIAMENT is a strange place, governed by arcane rules and procedures. I seem to spend much of my time discovering these rules in the course of breaking them. Many of these appear to make no great or obvious sense but keep the place locked in a time warp........
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05/11/92 "Pilgrims' Progress? No Way"
LET me begin with a mention of my mum and dad. They're getting on a bit and don't travel around as much as they
used to. But every couple of years they make the pilgrimage from Liverpool to Nottingham to visit me.......
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12/11/92 "Knickers To Blaming The Poor"
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have a confession to make. You were bound to find out sooner or later so I'd better make a clean breast of it. I'm an economist. At this point people often go away and wash their hands, or move
their children to a safe distance......
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26/11/92 "Hidden Wins In School League"
YOU know how the advert goes... "I want to be..." Well let me tell you mine. I want to be Roberto Baggio. He is a dream of a footballer, swift as a sabre, bold as a bus driver, deadlier than Bobby Charlton. My only trouble is that I'm too old, too low and I'm not Italian.....
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10/12/92 "Lamont Is Not Alone In Debt"
I DON'T wish to add unreasonably to the problems Norman Lamont faces. He is certainly not alone in living beyond his personal credit limit. Britain now carries the highest per capita level of credit debt in the western world......
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17/12/92 "On The March For Our Future"
BY the time you read this the blisters will be in Reading. But the delegation of Scottish miners who are walking their protest to London have picked up a lot more man sore feet and aching limbs.....
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31/12/92 "Mince Pies. The Hidden Dangers"
THERE are lots of advantages about being vegetarian. One is that it has taught me to cook more irrelatively and it avoids the seasonal dilemma of what to do for the sixth consecutive meal of turkey left‐over’s.
There are also pitfalls.
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