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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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Is the Christmas recess too long?
MPs’ Christmas

Parliament goes into recess on Wednesday December 16th for the Christmas break, and returns on Tuesday January 5th. The break is criticised in some quarters as excessively long, with many observers suggesting the recess should be cut down to reflect normal business practises outside Westminster. But parliamentary traditionalists insists the long breaks are necessary to… Read more »

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Clegg: Discredited parliament
Clegg: Cancel the Queen’s Speech

By politics.co.uk staff The Queen’s Speech should be scrapped this year and replaced with thorough implementation of reforms to parliament, Nick Clegg said this morning. In a comment piece for the Independent, the Lib Dem leader described this year’s Queen’s Speech as a “fiction”, because there wasn’t enough parliamentary time left until the election for… Read more »