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Queen Elizabeth's Balmoral Estate To Go Green

Balmoral, Queen Elizabeth's Scottish estate, is to become the first in the Royal household to be self-sufficient in energy. The queen, who set up an energy-saving committee at Buckingham Palace to look at how to reduce consumption, has installed a ...

From ANDREW PIERCE, The New York Sun,  18 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Queen Elizabeth II

It feels like 1990 again

Full coverage of UK politics It is beginning to feel like 1990 all over again. Then the Tories used victories in the flagship London boroughs of Westminster and Wandsworth in the local elections as a decisive vindication of Margaret Thatcher’s ...

From ANDREW PIERCE, The Telegraph,  24 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Margaret Thatcher

Gordon Brown grins and bears it

The smile on Gordon Brown’s face today, as he appeared alongside Ken Livingstone, was even more forced than the toe curling performance from Downing Street for American Pop Idol. The truth is Brown loathes Livingstone and the feeling is entirely ...

From ANDREW PIERCE, The Telegraph,  14 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Ken Livingstone,  Tony Blair,  Neil Kinnock,  UK Labour Party

PM's lack of leadership on embryo bill

Another test of Gordon Brown’s leadership and another example of a lack of it. If Margaret Thatcher, who was never exactly tolerant of backbench dissent, was willing to give MPs a free vote in the original Embryology Bill in 1990 it was obvious that ...

From ANDREW PIERCE, The Telegraph,  25 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Margaret Thatcher

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