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Dispatch box gets primeval
Sketch: Bipeds at the dispatch box

Cameron and Brown used their best tricks on each other this week, but both came across a little primitive. By Ian Dunt Something about politicians makes me come over all anthropological. Not because they are simple beasts, not entirely anyway. It’s because of their setting. These odd environments they trap themselves in and the importance… Read more »

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Another step forward for Stormont
Policing budget moves NI devolution forward

By Alex Stevenson Financial proposals for policing and justice in Northern Ireland have been published by Gordon Brown, in what the prime minister has called a “very strong settlement” for the province. The prime minister told MPs the package was “designed to make possible the completion of the last stage of devolution in Northern Ireland”…. Read more »