The Talking Clock: The Week in Review

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"The laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof; and all the kings and queens, who shall ascend the throne of this realm, ought to administer the government of the same according to the said laws; and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively, according to the same."
Act of Settlement, 1700/01

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Bill of Rights, 1689
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Friday, 10 September 2010

The Week in Review

So, another week draws to an end. Here are the ten stories which generated most interest on this blog over the last seven days:

1. Blair talks Diana and we answer back
2. Blair's Bogeymen playing BNP/EDL recruitment sergeant?
3. Lord Pearson's Gift exposing BBC pro-EU bias
4. Sunday Paper Review from 5th September
5. EDM 406 and four more brave politicians
6. UKIP news round-up from conference
7. Dictator Watch an EU news round-up
8. Say Pants! to airport naked body scanners
9. BBC and EU rebate even praising Thatcher?
10. Quote of the Day goes 'follow the money' mode

We've had two days away, having a well earned rest. But we still collated ten great reads for you all during the week, from bloggers and commentators elsewhere:

1. Charles Crawford European Financial Crisis
2. The Slog Eurozone Crisis Imminent
3. The Slog Swine Flu Aftermath
4. Daniel Hannan Heath worst ever PM
5. Christopher Booker Ruins of the IPCC
6. England Expects Climate Power Grab
7. England Expects Greenland not melting as fast
8. Prison Planet Pachauri guesses the numbers
9. EU Referendum A pretend crisis
10. Working Class Tory Inside the mind of Met Chief

Thank you to all of those who have linked to us this week, and to those who have submitted thoughtful comments which are always wonderful to read - it's nice to know what people reading this blog think of the stories that get us animated.

Enough stats and recommending... a new week begins.

2 comments:

Harbinger11 September 2010 20:49
Hi TC,

Forgive me for posting on this space but I saw no email link on your website and while perusing the net I found this which I think is not only right up your street but something you'll find incredibly useful.

Affidavit of Richard Tomlinson

Enjoy
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The Talking Clock11 September 2010 22:30
Hey Harbinger, that was thoughtful of you and nice to know that you were thinking of me and this here ickle blog.

It'll probably comes as no surprise whasoever to you to hear me say that I'm incredibly familiar with his affidavit already... there's probably very little regarding statements people have made on the record about the case which I do not know!

More interesting, is mapping out from those connected dots to a wider web... ;)

Hope you're well,

TTC
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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992