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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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MPs take lesson from our feathered ostrich friends
Sketch: Expenses? What expenses?

MPs spent this lunchtime indulging in some mutually reinforcing head-in-the-sand behaviour as Sir Thomas Legg’s expenses judgements broke around Westminster. By Alex Stevenson The press gallery of the Commons is a beehive of activity as journalists frantically pour through Legg’s final report. The news channels are filled with figures: 390 miscreant MPs, £1.3 million repaid… Read more »

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A bad PMQs for Labour's commander-in-chief
PMQs sketch: Brown in retreat

David Cameron deployed the overwhelming force of his backbenchers to rout Gordon Brown in this week’s prime minister’s questions. By Alex Stevenson The Ministry of Defence (MoD) began the work of the strategic defence review with today’s green paper, as Bob Ainsworth was to explain immediately after PMQs wrapped up. It seems they forgot to… Read more »