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Monday, October 8
Government 'Newspeak' trumpets free speech while trampling on it
by
IanPJ
on Mon 08 Oct 2007 21:53 BST
Henry Porter writes in The Observer:
The art of government these days is to extend power without people noticing. Gordon Brown proclaims his solemn duty ‘to uphold freedom of speech, freedom of information and freedom of protest’, yet his ministers steal through the night to attack each one of these rights. We are moving with a sickening speed to a point where the reality of government intentions is the precise opposite of its presentational rhetoric. more »
Iraqi interpreters - tomorrow's meeting room moved
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IanPJ
on Mon 08 Oct 2007 21:07 BST
Meeting moved.
It's now in the Attlee Suite in Portcullis House.
The meeting on Iraqi Employees will take place on the same day (Tuesday 9th October) at the same time (7-9pm) with the same speakers in a changed venue very close to the original one: the Attlee Suite in Portcullis House (MPs' own office block, opposite Parliament). more »
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