Politics

RBS boss Hester to struggle by on £1.2m salary alone

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RBS boss Stephen Hester has refused to take his £1m share bonus, insisting he is willing to struggle by on his £1.2m salary for the good of the taxpayer.

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‘Chaos’ if we stop rich people giving money to rich people, claims Duncan-Smith

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Iain Duncan-Smith has claimed the government can not intervene in the bonus given to Stephen Hester by the RBS board, because preventing rich people giving money to other rich people would leave the world in ‘chaos’.

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Archbishop of York reminded that slavery also had a ‘very clear social structure for a long time’

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After the Archbishop of York claimed that gay marriage should not be allowed because marriage has a very clear social structure which has been around for a long time, everyone reminded him this was also once true of slavery.

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Newt Gingrich to base Presidential platform on ‘sanctity of third marriage’

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Newt Gringrich is to base his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on the platform of American values and the sanctity of third marriages.

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Benefit cap to see rise in applicants per job from 23 to 2.68 million

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With unemployment rising and the number of job vacancies decreasing, critics have warned that the government’s proposed benefit cap could see the average number of applicants per job increase from 23 to about 2.68 million.

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Newt Gingrich attacks media for behaving like Newt Gingrich

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US Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has launched a scathing attack on the media for behaving in a way normally associated with Newt Gingrich.

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Andrew Lansley downgrades nurses from ‘highly revered professionals’ to ‘troublemaking harridans’

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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has moved to quickly to downgrade nurses’ standing in England to troublemaking harridans after the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives stated their “outright opposition” to the government’s NHS plans in England.

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Capitalism made popular by addition of word ‘popular’

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David Cameron has single-handedly renewed support for capitalism, by rebranding the economic model as ‘popular capitalism’.

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Radical cleric’s deportation ruled out on grounds that he didn’t infringe US copyright laws

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Radical cleric Abu Qatada has won his appeal against deportation from the UK to Jordan at the European Court of Human Rights after it transpired that he didn’t make the same mistake as Sheffield student Richard O’Dwyer, and infringe any US copyright laws.

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UK film industry should pander to morons, claims report

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Following the publication of Lord Smith’s review into the government’s film policy, Prime Minister David Cameron has urged Britain’s film industry to make more of the sort of films that morons like.

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