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Gordon Brown outlines plans to reform UK voting system

“Britain’s First Past The Post voting system could be scrapped if Labour wins the general election, under plans which have been outlined by Gordon Brown. The prime minister wants a referendum on changing to an Alternative Vote system, where candidates are ranked in order of voters’ preference”. Whereas superficially this proposed referendum to move to [...]

Johnson ‘will back’ Wootton Bassett Islamic march ban

“The home secretary has said he will back any request from police or local government to ban an Islamic group marching through Wootton Bassett. Alan Johnson said he felt ‘revulsion’ at the thought of Islam4UK’s proposed march through the Wiltshire town”. Now indeed, it is quite offensive that the group is indeed planning on holding [...]

Fury from the USA at the release of Abdulbaset al-Megrahi

“Speaking on US network CNN’s State of the Union, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm Mike Mullen said: ‘This is obviously a political decision. On the same programme, influential Senators Joe Lieberman and Ben Cardin questioned whether the move had been made to improve British-Libyan trade”. There has indeed been a lot of anger [...]