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		<title>Comment of the Day &#8211; Christianity is playing a part in Conservative thinking, and may soon do the same for Labour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;America’s religious right is largely defined by divisive lifestyle issues such as gay marriage and abortion, the Christians influencing the Tories focus on social problems such as poverty and delinquency. Hence their attractiveness to the Conservatives’ largely non-believing strategists and policy wonks.&#8221; Read in full in the Economist
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		<title>Comment of the Day &#8211; How a Cameron Government would make policy by James Forsyth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the slight delay in posting this, but its a good one.
&#8220;There is one promise that David Cameron makes regularly that even the shadow Cabinet doesn’t believe he intends to keep: that he is going to end the era of ‘sofa government’ and bring back ‘Cabinet government’. Their experience over the past four years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com&blog=732463&post=1247&subd=cornerstonegroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment of the Day &#8211; Motorists stung by £328m parking fines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a report from the TaxPayers&#8217; Alliance it has been reported today that, &#8220;Drivers had to fork out £328MILLION in parking fines over the last year, figures reveal today. Critics claim the massive bill proves local authorities are fleecing motorists to fill their coffers. Posh Kensington and Chelsea Council in London raised the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com&blog=732463&post=1243&subd=cornerstonegroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment of the day &#8211; Conscious man &#8216;in coma&#8217; for 23 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the end of the consultation period of the DDP’s guidelines on assisted suicide I was struck by an article that appeared in today’s Telegraph.
“A Belgian man diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time.  Rom Houbens was simply paralysed and had no way to let [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com&blog=732463&post=1239&subd=cornerstonegroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better a quiet man than a megalomaniac – by Edward Leigh MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been the predictable uproar from the British Press at the appointment of the new EU President, but is he such a bad chap as all that? A man who is a devout Christian, who goes on a monastic retreat every month, enjoys Japanese poetry and likes nothing better than a camper van holiday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com&blog=732463&post=1238&subd=cornerstonegroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson hits back at the climate change fanatics in the Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The reason we use carbon-based energy is simply that it is far and away the cheapest source of energy, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Switching to much more expensive energy may be acceptable for us in the developed world. But in the developing world, there are still tens of millions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com&blog=732463&post=1233&subd=cornerstonegroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing a new feature – Cornerstone’s favourite daily comment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers know it is highly unusual for me to add a post to this site, but today I am delighted to announce our new feature. Each day during the Parliamentary session, Cornerstone’s editorial team will post a short version of our favourite news item, or comment piece along with a link to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com&blog=732463&post=1227&subd=cornerstonegroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Victories &#8211; by Edward Leigh MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went along to the Chamber and found out that the Government had run up the white flag over Lord Waddington’s free speech amendment on the Coroner’s and Justice Bill.
This is a great victory for free speech which in a democracy should be paramount.
In the evening I debated at the Oxford Union alongside the Bishop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com&blog=732463&post=1222&subd=cornerstonegroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liz Truss case not typical of Tories &#8211; by Nadine Dorries MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Last night, many of us realised – with a gasp and a phew – that we had been holding our breath for some time, as the chairman of South West Norfolk Conservative Association announced to the waiting cameras that Elizabeth Truss had survived the attempt to deselect her as the Conservative party parliamentary candidate.
The unfortunate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cornerstonegroup.wordpress.com&blog=732463&post=1220&subd=cornerstonegroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A ride in the park &#8211; by Nadine Dorries MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The row concerning the sacking of professor Nutt continues with steady momentum as one advisor after another resigns at key moments, providing the story with the turbo thrust it needed to propel it from Friday night PM to the Monday morning Today.
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