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<title><![CDATA[No masks, no daggers, no surprises]]></title>
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Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:26 BST
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<![CDATA[On Wednesday night I literally lost the plot&amp;#46; The experience led me to some surprising thoughts about politics and journalism&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Cannabis: a good (but wrong) move]]></title>
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<![CDATA[As expected, the Government announced yesterday that it will overrule its own 
advisers and reclassify cannabis as a Class B substance. This will &#8220;send out 
a message&#8221; that the drug can be dangerous. As I'm sure the criminal law is 
not the way to do this, why does something in me raise a quiet cheer? It's 
not as if the Government's right. This diary inveighs ceaselessly against 
the &#8220;sending out a message&#8221; school of lawmaking. The Government had asked 
its Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, experts in their field, a clear 
question; and they had given a clear answer.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[My advice to Labour MPs &#45; give up]]></title>
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Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:30 BST
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<title><![CDATA[Mr Brown and the man in a bobble&#45;hat]]></title>
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Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:34 BST
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<title><![CDATA[Tories, prepare for government]]></title>
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<![CDATA[A year ago I was still holding to two opinions about the medium&#45;term future for the British Government and its Official Opposition&amp;#46; The first was that the great danger for the Conservative Party at the next general election was that it would win&amp;#44; but win very small&amp;#46; The second was that unless Gordon Brown had the nerve to go early to the country last year &#45; when he would win &#45; then any general election was most likely to be delayed until 2010&amp;#46;]]>	
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