Can't work out whether to go and see England People Very Nice at the National Theatre.
It probably wasn't the answer that the Daily Mail was looking for as its loaded poll question "Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue?" went up on its Mail Online website.
That should stick it to the dyslexia deniers. An inquiry led by former Ofsted inspector Sir Jim Rose has prompted the government to help children who are held back at school because of the learning difficulty.
Is merger mania about to hit the voluntary sector? Help the Aged and Age Concern may have fired the starting pistol with the belated discovery that their aims and actions were overlapping.
It was less the night of the long knives, more the day of the long, white envelopes as ministers queued to hand their resignation letters to prime minister Gordon Brown.
Outside Left is always pleased to hear from the London mayor's office. So when Boris Johnson's aides last week replied to a blog published in April about the dishevelled one's apparent U-turn on funding for rape crisis centres, the impression given was of another U-turn - a W-turn, no less.
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