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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,… Read more »

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By Ian Dunt Ed Miliband has insisted he has the momentum to win the leadership contest, and praised the ‘secret weapon’ of his campaign. Talking to politics.co.uk, the Labour leadership candidate insisted he was running “the largest field operation that any political campaign has had in a leadership election in the history of British politics”…. Read more »

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Three 'secret meetings' costing taxpayers money have been highlighted by Priti Patel
Taxpayer’s union expenses rile Tory MP

By Alex Stevenson Trade union officials are under fire from a Conservative MP who has unveiled nearly £40,000 of expenses, paid by the taxpayer, spent on senior ‘union barons’. Figures obtained by Priti Patel showed the chair of the union modernisation fund supervisory board, former Usdaw union general secretary Sir Bill Connor, had received over… Read more »