Peter Hoskin

Work-shy Labour?

An eyecatching snippet from the Telegraph:

“[Labour chief whip, Nick] Brown said that he was concerned that a hardcore rump of five per cent of Labour MPs were responsible for a quarter of all ‘unauthorised absences’ from the Commons.”

Now, I wonder who they might be…

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Where have all the rabbits gone?

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It’s spring and in this corner of rural Sussex, the bluetits are at the window, newborn lambs are bleating in their pens, and all the rabbits are dead. The burrows are still there, but the chewed grass, the little collections of brown pellets, the white bobtails scattering before your headlights at night, they are gone.

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