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The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant story)

 

1. Miliband shores up his leadership at noisy PMQs
2. Why is Ed playing into the Tories hands on the union link?
3. At last we have a Labour Leader serious about a building a mass movement
4. A Very Blairite Coup
5. For all the talk of reform, ordinary people have lost interest in party politics, Ed Miliband’s gamble over party funding might work, it might not, but to the disenchanted majority of people, it doesn’t matter
6. A former Glasgow Labour councillor Boldly goes where  Margaret Thatcher didn’t.
7. Did Labour MP Simon Danczuk fabricate message used in ‘BNP Labour’ attack?
8. And he replies with Let’s all take a deep breath…
9. The power of wives: how a row about money could spoil the Conservatives’ summer bliss
10. Income inequality at its lowest since 1986 – a good result for the Liberal Democrats in Government
11. Universal Credit? Universal DISCREDIT, more like, say insiders Government sources reveal ‘one dole to rule them all’ in ‘total disarray’
12. Labour’s vision for a green economic future
13. Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Ed Miliband: My brother David is hotter? That’s not what my wife says! (warning, clicking on this link, brings up the concept of the two Eds sharing a girlfriend)
14. The Laughter of the Privileged Left
15. Bicycle race for Mark Cavendish to forget, Mark Cavendish has urine thrown at him
16. At long last, Cameron is considering an appeal to aggrieved English voters
17. A majority of Scottish voters  think Andy Murray should receive a knighthood following his victory at Wimbledon, whilst a majority of voters in the rest of Great Britain say the opposite
18. Was that a Saltire flag or Alex Salmond’s Wimbledon undies?
19. Scottish Labour’s new Shadow Cabinet
20. Police Anti-theft banner stolen
21. For one PBer in particular, Picturesque Scottish island that Bonnie Prince Charlie used to hide after defeat at Culloden goes on sale 
22. Piper Alpha: Fire in the Night – An award winning documentary worth watching.

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