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10 Downing Street - The UK Prime Minister's home page, providing news and information about the activities of the Government, a history of Number 10 and previous Prime Ministers and a virtual tour of the building.
Foresight - Strategic planning programme which brings people, knowledge and ideas together to look ahead and prepare for future technological and environmental challenges.
National Board of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting in Scotland - Statutory body responsible for ensuring standards of education and training for nurses, midwives and health visitors in Scotland.
PoliticsDirect.com - Political information on UK Parliament, Pressure Groups, Think Tanks, UK political parties, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly, EU parliament, and Ireland.
The Civil Service Year Book online - Official directory of the British Civil Service and United Kingdom (UK) government, with contacts, addresses, websites and email links.
Government Gateway - The centralised registration service for e-Government services in the UK. Registering with the Government Gateway enables you to sign up for any of the UK Government's services that are available over the Internet.
Dod On Line - Political monitoring service by Vacher Dod Publishing Ltd, with analysis, news, election results, government departments, what's on in parliament, and constituency and MP details. Also MP profiles, subject to registration.
Government Online - Directory of information providers for key government departments and their suppliers.
Public Sector Benchmarking Service - Focal point for managing benchmarking knowledge, information and advice. Provided by HM Customs & Excise and the Cabinet Office.
TSO - Parliamentary & Government Online Bookshop - Stationary Office (formerly HMSO) bookstore offering official publications covering legislation, official reports, Government and Parliamentary papers.
The Government Machine - Includes information on the role of cabinet committees, central intelligence machinery and ministerial codes.
Tagish - A comprehensive directory of UK local government and councils.
Number 10 - Unofficial site containing postings that have appeared in the speakers corner section of the official Number 10 Downing Street site.
Ministers and Departments - Provides a full listing of Cabinet Ministers and Junior Ministers as well as detail on Departments and legislative procedures.
Westminster Village - Links to information on UK politics, government, media and pressure groups - run by Westminster Strategy.
Office of the Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street - The policy section of the British Government's 10 Downing Street web information and news service. News, links, background papers, research facilities and policy documents.
UK Resilience - Civil Contingencies Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, a central reference point and directory for use during wide-ranging national emergencies.
British Government and Politics on the Internet - Directory of mainly British government departments and publications, compiled by a retired librarian/web editor.
The Citizens Advice Bureau Service - Portal that provides information on your rights, including benefits, housing and employment, and on debt, consumer and legal issues across the UK.
Government Car and Despatch Agency - Securely transporting the UK's most influential people and important documents for the government and related entities.
Downing Street Says - Briefings by the Prime Minister's official spokesman, presented in an easy-to-read format with comments and feedback from readers.
Audit Commission - Independent body responsible for ensuring that public money is used economically, efficiently and effectively.
Directgov - Portal to public service information from the UK Government, including directories, online services, news and information of relevance to specific groups.
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Government Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Government The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf Government Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Government "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Government I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Government In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Government Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Government I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Government Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Government A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw Government Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Government Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Government When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Government "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard Government Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Government I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Government Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Government Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Government He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Government The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Government If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Government
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