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So, with Cleggmania sweeping the nation, where do we find the hero of the hour?The Lib Dem leader is riding high in the polls and the time is ripe to seal the deal with the Great British Public.That must be why Nick Clegg has chosen to take today, Saturday, off.Wants to spend some time with his kids, he says.That's nice, Nick.Why not do some fin...

Have you noticed?The newspapers that seem most apocalyptic that BRITAIN IS SHUT because of Iceland's evil volcanic ash cloud of death are the same ones normally most keen on shutting Britain to foreign influences.It turns out we're all more interconnected with everyone else on this planet than some would like us to believe.I just hope my supermarket fine green beans from Kenya don't ge...

For all the column inches, it doesn't look like the war in Afghanistan will divide the parties at the General Election.Forget for a minute whether Our Boys have enough kit, or are worked too hard - what do the major parties have to say about whether we should be in Afghanistan at all?In a long section, the Labour manifesto says: "Afghanistan is not a war without end."Together ...

Those adverts for the Halifax.Why, on God's green earth, are these people who work in a bank running a bloody radio station there?
And, on the morning of Haye v Ruiz, I wonder yet again about heavyweight boxing match weigh-ins.Aside from all the hoopla, the purpose of a weigh-in is to ensure the fighters are under the weight limit.

Most redundant job of
the week:

Approached by a charity
chap the other day, wanting me to sign up by direct debit.

&...

In 2006 then Defence Secretary John Reid said he would be perfectly happy if we leftAfghanistan in three years without firing ashot.
IN fact, we have learned more than 17 million shots have been fired, costing £44 million.

The Ministry of Defence told us we fired £44,700,000 of ammunition in
Afghanistan from August 2006 to October 2009.

In Iraq from 2004 to 2009 we fired £11,300,00 of ammo...