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Published: 5th August, 2010 08:30pm

Missing the days when PR meant proportional representation

EVERY day of my working life I'm engulfed in an avalanche of drivel and verbiage served up by regiments of PR men and women.

Published: 5th August, 2010 03:30pm

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, August 5, 2010

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THERE has been much talk of the Big Society since the Prime Minister's launch a few weeks ago.

Published: 29th July, 2010 06:30pm

Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, July 29, 2010

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IT IS GOOD that we've reached recess. Tempers, exacerbated by the hot cloying weather, were beginning to fray around Westminster.

Published: 29th July, 2010 09:30am

Some are more entitled to justice than others...

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WERE any of us to walk up behind a policeman and push him to the ground with such force that he died shortly afterwards there's little doubt what would happen next.

Published: 28th July, 2010 12:30pm

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, July 28, 2010

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MUCH Parliamentary business is done away from the Commons Chamber in the Committee corridor.

Published: 22nd July, 2010 07:30pm

Alok Sharma's Westminster Diary, July 22, 2010

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IT'S almost the end of the summer term in Parliament, with recess starting at the end of next Tuesday, but the pace certainly does not seem to be slowing down.

Published: 22nd July, 2010 09:30am

A powerful message about renewable energy

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THERE were 13 of them, stretching across a valley ridge above the southern reaches of Champagne-Ardenne.

Published: 21st July, 2010 10:30am

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, July 21, 2010

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IT IS three years since the devastating floods of 2007. Floods then, drought now. Our weather seems to fluctuate between increasing extremes.

Published: 15th July, 2010 10:30pm

Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, July 15, 2010

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THE Pace of the Coalition Government is quite breathtaking and I must say a little unexpected.