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Well! who would have thought so, I’m in shock, I’m in disbelief! Our very own Jose Maria Aznar, the rock star politician, is rumoured to be the father of the child expected by French Justice Minister Rachida Dati. The world is gone crazy: that’s a fact.
Those years playing squash are really starting to show Mr. [...]

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As promised yesterday I would like to throw out there a couple of ideas for a new political message for Labour. Now that Brown is finally taking some time out (and hopefully getting some good sleep to clear his head) I hope No. 10 staffers are working hard on the new message and calendar to [...]

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Spanish conservatives like to boast about great unity within the party. Discipline is the key see, in the spirit of those dictatorships of the like of Mugabe or Castro, PP leaders are elected with 99% of the vote as the party apparatus makes sure only one candidate at a time runs.
But as we saw in [...]

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Charlie Black probably wishes he didn’t get out of bed yesterday morning. One of McCain closest aides fed a quote on the record to Forbes magazine saying that another 9/11 style attack would help McCain get elected.
This is a classic political moment. When ‘not for public consumption’ real political manouvreing emerges. Like that politicos’ favourite [...]

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The Spanish Conservative Party (PP) today started its party convention in Valencia.
After his crashing defeat in the May 9 general election Rajoy has been openly criticised by several high-profile party leaders within PP. The party leaders in Madrid and the Basque Country, Esperanza Aguirre and Maria San Gil, as well as MEPs’ leader Jaime Mayor [...]

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