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Women's Institute Boldly Leads The Way In Move To Create Safe, Legal, Regulated Brothels. 7000 Strong Hampshire Section Have Already Passed A Resolution In Favour

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Issue No 22 Friday 06 February 2009

DRUGS

Our Government’s Response To Mexico’s Narcoterrorism: Reclassify Cannabis From C To B

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Issue No 21 Friday 29 January 2009

RIGHTS

Newly Formed Rights Campaign MODERN LIBERTY Holds Nationwide Convention on Saturday 28 February 2009

Anti-Terrorist Laws Used Against Iceland. This Abuse Of Power Must Be A Warning

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Issue No 20 Friday 23 January 2009

AFGHAN WAR

The Lie Used By The British Government To Justify The Afghan War

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Issue No 19 Friday 16 January 2009

USA CONSTITUTION

How the US Cabinet Works. With President Obama’s Inauguration Next Tuesday He Brings A Whole New Administrative Apparatus With Over 4000 New Staff

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Issue No 18 Friday 9 January 2009

· MONARCHY

King Charles III, To Gag Or Not To Gag. That Is The Question - For Some. But Perhaps We Should Not Be Afraid To Upset The Apple Cart

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Issue No 17 Friday 2 January 2009

BANKING CRISIS

The Fundamental Problem That Brought About The Financial Meltdown --- The Creation Of The Money Supply Was Left To Private Banks Not The Government.

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Issue No 16 Friday 19 December 2008

UK CONSTITUTION

This is “The Criminalisation Of Politics” - Michael Portillo, Ex-Tory Cabinet Member and Journalist

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Issue No 15 Friday 12 December 2008

UK CONSTITUTION

“Commons Now Managed By Government - Totally, Absolutely And Completely” -David Starkey, Historian

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Issue No 14 Friday 5 December 2008

SPECIAL JOHN MILTON QUATERCENTENARY EDITION

The Republican beliefs of John Milton, our greatest poet, mean that the 400^th anniversary of his birth on Tuesday, 9^th December 2008, is being ignored

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Issue No 13 Friday 28 November 2008

TELEVISION

British Television At Last Broadcasts A Series Focusing On British Republican History

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Issue No 12 Friday 21 November 2008

RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION

"Russia's Proposal to Extend Presidential Term May Not Be Just A Ploy For Putin To Return As President"

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Issue No 11 Friday 14 November 2008

UK CONSTITUTION

“A British Equivalent Of Barack Obama Would Find It Extremely Difficult To Become Prime Minister.” But The Problem Is The Constitution Not The Voters

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Issue No 10 Friday 7 November 2008

HEALTH

Allowing Top Up Payments For Medication Will Usher In Top Up Health Insurance. We Must Act Quickly To Regulate This

RIGHTS

Brown Courts Trouble With Ill-Thought Out Proposals For A “Bill Of Rights And Responsibilities”

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Issue No 9 Friday 31 October 2008

UK CONSTITUTION

Full Text of Speech in support of Civic Republican motion at Republic Annual Conference.

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Issue No 8 Friday 24 October 2008

RIGHTS

"Necessitous men are not free men” Important Parliamentary Committee Bill of Rights Report evokes Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Issue No 7 Friday 17 October 2008

UK CONSTITUTION

Come and vote for Civic Republican motion at Republic Annual Conference next Saturday.

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Issue No 6 Friday 10 October 2008

UK AND USA CONSTITUTIONS

Measures to deal with the financial crisis in Britain and USA may not be quite the same, but the way the constitutions responded to them are a world apart.

Unelected Mandelson parachuted into key position.

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Issue No 5 Friday 3 October 2008

ECONOMIC MELTDOWN

Financial Meltdown May Produce Moral Meltdown As Well

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Issue No 4 Friday 26 September 2008

DRUGS

The Prohibition On Recreational Drugs Debate

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Issue No 3 Friday 19th September 2008

HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM

Why An Elected Lords Is Not Good Civic Republicanism

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Issue No 2 Friday 12 September 2008

MORTGAGES

Brown and Darling pull a shabby trick on first time buyers

BANKS

Why Britain's banks are on borrowed time....

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Issue No 1 Friday 5 September 2008

BELGIUM

Coming Break Up Of Belgium Could Have Great Ramifications

ECONOMY

Our personal finances are the worst they’ve ever been

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* The power of the PM is stated clearly, if softly, on the 10 Downing website. "The Prime Minister is the head of the UK Government and is ultimately responsible for the policy and decisions of Government. As head of the UK Government the Prime Minister also oversees the operation of the civil service and Government agencies, appoints members of the cabinet, and is the principal Government figure in the House of Commons policy". If you read that statement quite literally, as you no doubt should, it is clear that the PM covers all Executive and Legislative decisions. The terms "policy and decisions of Government" and "government agencies" are all inclusive.

*By Lord Hailsham

* The Republic of Britain 1760 to 2000 by Frank Prochaska (2000) p.xvi

* The Republic of Britain 1760 to 2000 by Frank Prochaska (2000) p.xvii

*It is not that Republics can’t change should the long term will of the people desire it, but that on fundamental constitutional issues such as this they only change gradually. Republicans are conservatives (with a small “c”).

*This practice has lead over the last few years to an intense crisis for the bank buying the "security" often did not know how well the loan was secured. In a huge number of cases this has been not very well and so the banks who bought the "securities" were taken for billions, such is the level of their incompetence and greed.

*See P25 The Grip Of Death by Michael Rowbotham published 1997.And up to date figures for April 2008 show HBoS holds just 6% capital against debt "assets". The figure for Barclays is a measly 5.1%. (Moneyweek 2 May 2008. p.4). Exactly how much of this "capital" represents solid "non-toxic" capital assets is a question many would want to ask. The banks themselves are unlikely to know.