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ePolitix - News, analysis and information on government institutions, legislation and politicians.
Ananova : Politics - Breaking political news from Ananova.
BBC News : UK Politics - Political news, background and analysis from the BBC, including photographs and soundbites.
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.
Guardian Unlimited: Politics - News, comment and analysis about politics in Westminster, Whitehall, Europe and the world. Resources include online surgery, Ask Aristotle database, poll results and special reports.
Guardian Unlimited Politics: Local Government - Ongoing special report includes news, comment and analysis about local politics, issues, budgets and elections. Includes index, policy and organisation links.
Parliamentary Brief - Commentary on British Political Affairs.
Policy Brief - Public policy briefing service.
PoliticalNews.co.uk - Links to various services for UK political news headlines, including searches on Moreover.com and Newsnow.co.uk real time news services.
UK Politics Brief - A set of notes for A-level Politics students on British Government and economics topics. Warning: cannot be viewed in Netscape 4.
WestminsterWatch - News, reviews and information on UK politics from Westminster, plus links to other government, political, policy and campaigning resources.
YouGov - 24 hour news, comment and information on UK government and politics; online opinion polling on a wide range of current issues, People's Parliament, and how to contact your local MP and councillors.
Observer: Politics - Weekly coverage of political news with in-depth analysis and comment. Includes links to related Special Reports.
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur News and Media It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner 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 News and Media Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev News and Media Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill News and Media Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. News and Media Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life News and Media Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) News and Media The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx "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) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews 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 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais News and Media When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov News and Media "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball News and Media If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge News and Media Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die News and Media A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 News and Media The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, News and Media To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous News and Media Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau News and Media The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings News and Media There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "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 surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes News and Media The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position News and Media "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. News and Media
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