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One of the musicians who runs a singing club in Canons' Gait, the pub in which Nigel Farage was locked after being mobbed by angry protesters in Edinb...

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When people with any level of responsibility are accused of a serious crime or activities that offend common decency, the normal procedure in the UK is for them to be suspended from their job pending an investigation.

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A Cornish councillor who said "disabled children cost the council too much money and should be put down" has been re-elected in his division of Wadebr...

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"Divisive" is the word that perhaps most accurately characterises reflections on the recent passing of Baroness Thatcher. But paradoxically, as David Cameron pointed out today, the day of Mrs. Thatcher's funeral, "we are all Thatcherites now".

Thatcher's real legacy is that self-interest has become the driving force, socially and economically, for everyone regardless of whether they are on the left, the right or that irritating bit in the middle.