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Abolishing an elected European Parliament is no way forward – a response to Jack Straw

Straw says abolish the European Parliament
Straw says abolish the European Parliament

I don’t know what annoys me more – that a high-level Labour politician can have such misguided ideas, or that the outcome of an event is reported in such a one-sided manner in the press. I am referring to The Guardian’s report on today’s IPPR event on the EU’s democratic deficit (I attended), in which former Foreign Minister Jack Straw st [...] Read more ...

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22 Feb 2012

Storify for iPad is here, free.

Storified by Storify · Wed, Feb 22 2012 02:59:01 Storify is reinventing storytelling for the social media age, and today we're bringing our platform to the device that is reinventing computing: the iPad. Our free app is a powerful tool that gives you a new way of creating content on a tablet. Read more ...

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22 Feb 2012

London Conference on Somalia

Storified by Foreign Office (FCO) · Wed, Feb 22 2012 09:03:27 This is where you'll be able to keep up to date with latest news from around the web on the London conference on Somalia. Read more ...

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22 Feb 2012

Ford beefs up pension funds and steers to bonds

Ford has more than doubled its annual contribution to its pension funds, to $3.8bn, as the carmaker aggressively shifts its investments towards bonds in an attempt to limit its exposure to volatile stock markets. Falling interest rates have hit the [...] Read more ...

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22 Feb 2012