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The New Party is urging people across the country to support a local campaign to remove the stealth tax before other local authorities decide to follow suit.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2009/bike-tax-campaign.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Party calls for BBC to end its 'discrimination' of smaller political parties</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/KOxh5unAMxY/bbc-discrimination-claim.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Following the BNP Question Time fiasco, New Party National Spokesperson Richard Vass called on the BBC and other programme-makers to devote more airtime to developing political parties to show the electorate there is more to UK politics than extreme choices and career politicians.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2009/bbc-discrimination-claim.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Party praises ASA for investigating 'sickening' carbon advert</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/lwNC0JSzmwM/ASA-move-welcomed.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>After lodging an official complaint with the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) concerning the Government's latest carbon reduction advert, the New Party today welcome confirmation from the ASA that it is to investigate whether the advert breaches the rules.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2009/ASA-move-welcomed.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Time to unburden 10 million low earners of income tax</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/cskV4Tnj3F0/unburden-low-earners.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>If the Chancellor is serious about fixing the economic mess he helped create then he needs to start by freeing hard working people earning the minimum wage from the burden of income tax.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2009/unburden-low-earners.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>'Orwellian' C02 advert prompts New Party call for withdrawal</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/tlRHaMNlZ6M/orwell-advert-withdrawal.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>New Party National Spokesman Richard Vass has written to the ASA demanding the immediate withdrawal of a new television advert being aired by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2009/orwell-advert-withdrawal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Richard Vass' letter to the national press</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/y9L83XqQVEw/letter-to-the-editor.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>After hearing the same old ideas being dressed up as progressive thinking during this year's conference season, New Party National Spokesman, Richard Vass, felt compelled to write a letter to national papers calling for a wake up call for UK voters.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2009/letter-to-the-editor.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Not enough, George</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/EyJceh34hRU/not-enough-george.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Conservative proposals do not begin to measure up to the scale of the crisis and there is no convincing path to economic recovery and growth.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2009/not-enough-george.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Red Tape has left thousands across Britain jobless</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/fw_nYASMinU/red-tape-makes-thousands-jobless.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>As well as fighting the recession, job-seekers are also fighting the legacy of Britain being tangled in red tape in their hunt for employment.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2009/red-tape-makes-thousands-jobless.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>After Lisbon</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/zFDF8mernBc/after-lisbon.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Institutional navel-gazing has occupied the EU for too long now.  It is time to put Lisbon behind us and move on.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2009/after-lisbon.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Letting the killers get on with it</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/cblRM2YO_XA/letting-the-killers-get-on-with-it.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>What is the alternative to a liberal interventionist foreign policy?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/letting-the-killers-get-on-with-it.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Germany gets down to business</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Bwog6nrBOoQ/germany-gets-down-to-business.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Germany has voted for action rather than paralysis.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/germany-gets-down-to-business.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Betraying liberalism</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/TFyidJn99WE/betraying-liberalism.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Vince goes back to his socialist roots</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/betraying-liberalism.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A spent force?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/nLQgljTlkAY/spent-force.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Confusion reigns among the Liberal Democrats.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/spent-force.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New campaign leaflet</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/tAbFOvk-noM/new-campaign-leaflet.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Take a look at our new campaign leaflet.  Members and supporters can order copies or we have a printable version for downloading.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/new-campaign-leaflet.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Now Clegg claims the progressive mantle</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/fbbIgGZTqOo/now-clegg-claims-progressive-mantle.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The field is getting crowded.  Now Nick Clegg has pitched in with a claim that the Liberal Democrats are the real progressives.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/now-clegg-claims-progressive-mantle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Where were the fascists?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/1bp1a976ORQ/where-were-the-fascists.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Events at the Harrow Mosque hardly presage a new wave of fascism.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/where-were-the-fascists.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>An apology for Turing</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/SKLaedsTW_E/apology-for-turing.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>A persecuted hero of the Second World War finally has the recognition he deserves.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/apology-for-turing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Union faces reality on pensions</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Yfih07jFKG0/union-faces-reality-on-pensions.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Even Trade Unions are having to face up to reality these days.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/union-faces-reality-on-pensions.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Loose cannon rolls overboard</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/nHq1W3gpO88/loose-cannon-rolls-overboard.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>There may be less to the resignation of Eric Joyce than meets the eye.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2009/loose-cannon-rolls-overboard.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Anarchists call in the police</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/I8VI3ju8RpM/anarchists-call-in-the-police.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Metropolitan Police have found some unexpected allies in the War on Crime.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2009/anarchists-call-in-the-police.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Heads in the sand</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/36ahVmdc38c/heads-in-the-sand.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Is the recession really over?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2009/heads-in-the-sand.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mercy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/XuN9eceMqoA/mercy.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Kenny MacAskill is highlighting 'Scottish compassion' - but has the move backfired?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2009/mercy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Who are the real progressives?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/S1-6-a7uTWM/who-are-the-real-progressives.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Peter Mandelson and George Osborne are both wrong.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2009/who-are-the-real-progressives.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Fighting for Afghanistan</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/-CmPEJ3UKEw/fighting-for-afghanistan.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Success in the Afghan conflict remains a vital objective.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2009/fighting-for-afghanistan.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hannan breaks Tory taboo</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/j8LChAZ7xYE/hannan-breaks-tory-taboo.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>He lit the blue touchpaper and the fireworks in the Tory party began</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2009/hannan-breaks-tory-taboo.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Richard Vass would like your input</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/N0XKzU4v4Z8/richard-vass-would-like-your-input.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>An open letter from the National Spokesman</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2009/richard-vass-would-like-your-input.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Norwich speaks</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/LNRfHcEq23Y/norwich-speaks.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The people are still angry with the politicians.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2009/norwich-speaks.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mixed messages on Swine Flu</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/UxHl98heTBQ/mixed-messages-on-swine-flu.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Government information on Swine Flu must be crystal clear.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2009/mixed-messages-on-swine-flu.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Are you now or have you ever been...?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/UtcNJOrIM7c/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Can sexual McCarthyism really protect our children?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2009/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A simmering of the quangos</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/OfaWgVbdiq0/simmering-of-the-quangos.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Conservatives assault on the quangocracy is distinctly underwhelming.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2009/simmering-of-the-quangos.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Lies, damned lies and Balls</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/0hbF0e0srxM/lies-damned-lies-and-balls.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>This is a dangerous time to be taking the electorate for fools.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2009/lies-damned-lies-and-balls.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The death of stars</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/VOqvmdDgcwM/the-death-of-stars.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The response to Michael Jackson's death is lacking perspective.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2009/the-death-of-stars.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mr Speaker Bercow</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/VWBNP4YNm9U/mr-speaker-bercow.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>John Bercow is a good choice for bad reasons.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2009/mr-speaker-bercow.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A special kind of idiocy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/k-gYoFA-MvE/special-kind-of-idiocy.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Parliament has added "stupidity" to the charges of contempt and corruption.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2009/special-kind-of-idiocy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Iranian people stand up</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/YESJB1VwYYw/iranian-people-stand-up.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Whatever happens now, the Islamic Republic will never be the same again.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2009/iranian-people-stand-up.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Worst plot ever</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/j6Pqhz0XC4k/worst-plot-ever.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>We should be rid of Gordon Brown by now.  What went wrong?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2009/worst-plot-ever.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>HMG Titanic</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/czE312p2zCM/hmg-titanic.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The ship is sinking but still people crave a seat at the captain's table.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2009/hmg-titanic.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The quest for a New Party</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/N9rCDvR-PtY/quest-for-a-new-party.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The need for a new party is about to be amply demonstrated in the European elections.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/quest-for-a-new-party.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>North Korea raises the stakes</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/onfxuiKI9qw/north-korea-raises-the-stakes.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The North Korean national sport is bravado.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/north-korea-raises-the-stakes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Quango.</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/hG0L9q9KQJ4/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-quango.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Parliament should be accountable to the people alone.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-quango.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The New Party on Facebook</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/4IpLIa_Xc8w/new-party-on-facebook.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The New Party now has its own Facebook page.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/new-party-on-facebook.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>There's only one Esther Rantzen - and it's not enough.</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/esBtU24HdR0/only-one-esther-rantzen.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Esther Rantzen's decision to stand against the tide of sleaze and incompetence should be an example to others.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/only-one-esther-rantzen.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Now you can follow us on Twitter</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/hiaYA_Y5Puc/now-you-can-follow-us-on-Twitter.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Twitter users can now subscribe to New Party updates by phone.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/now-you-can-follow-us-on-Twitter.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Time to go</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Z9HcGZIg35A/time-to-go.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The House of Commons needs a new Speaker.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/time-to-go.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Integrity</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/r9GQY2UT1bk/integrity.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The expenses culture has tarnished the integrity and reputation of Parliament.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/integrity.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Red Ken on the BNP</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/fKGB0zMDmLs/red-ken-on-the-bnp.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The BNP prospers when Labour governments fail.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/red-ken-on-the-bnp.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Speed camera scam revealed</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ABAF1BD426A/speed-camera-scam-revealed.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Police and local authorities no longer retain proceeds of speed camera fines - and both revenue from fines and road deaths have dropped.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2009/speed-camera-scam-revealed.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Victory for the Gurkhas</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/RNCdYlCc418/victory-for-the-gurkhas.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Parliament has voted for justice over the head of the Prime Minister.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2009/victory-for-the-gurkhas.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Playing politics while the economy burns</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/N0D-30Y5xDg/playing-politics-while-the-economy-burns.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The current crisis isn't just a failure of economics, it's a failure of politics.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2009/playing-politics-while-the-economy-burns.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Memories of '76</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/QtpS_EVuNWg/memories-of-76.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Alistair Darling's Budget takes us back to 1970s in more ways than one</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2009/memories-of-76.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>United Nations: from tragedy to farce</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Sh83jcgWKio/united-nations-from-tragedy-to-farce.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The shambles of the UN conference in Geneva is a cause for some satisfaction.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2009/united-nations-from-tragedy-to-farce.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Protecting the public</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Pajxf_-SDI4/protecting-the-public.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>At what point can we conclude that the public needs protection from the police?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2009/protecting-the-public.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Power for its own sake</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/GM2oGCyKbk8/power-for-its-own-sake.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The pursuit of power for its own sake is dangerous.  The retention of power for its own sake is worse.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2009/power-for-its-own-sake.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Quick resignation</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/JUcIuKzImBw/a-quick-resignation.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Haven't these people heard of briefcases?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2009/a-quick-resignation.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tina returns</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/q2gFA4gm9pI/tina-returns.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>TINA - There is No Alternative to cuts in public spending - may be about to make a comeback.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2009/tina-returns.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cameron expels errant donor</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/cxRIq9_mgKw/cameron-expels-errant-donor.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Stewart Wheeler's donation to UKIP shows splits among the Tories on Europe are still a vital issue.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2009/cameron-expels-errant-donor.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Daniel Hannan's magnificent attack on the PM</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/nXKpAr3r9js/daniel-hannans-magnificent-attack-on-pm.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Debates in the European Parliament can often be dull but occasionally there are moments of brilliance.  This is one such moment...</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2009/daniel-hannans-magnificent-attack-on-pm.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>One law</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/BR3ZEg7NFdg/one-law.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The early release of Lord Ahmed sends an unfortunate message.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2009/one-law.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mob rule</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/mCoI72L0ixc/mob-rule.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Bankers' remuneration should be ruled by the law not the mob.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2009/mob-rule.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ivan Cameron</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Nrg1vYZ7xK4/ivan-cameron.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The New Party expresses sincere condolences to the Cameron family following the death of Ivan Cameron.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2009/ivan-cameron.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The President's spine is missing</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/VzpTJYlWGw8/presidents-spine-is-missing.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Is Obama's supine approach to foreign policy the shape of things to come?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2009/presidents-spine-is-missing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Sir James Crosby must resign</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/LhH3evYDMls/sir-james-crosby-must-resign.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Is the architect of HBOS an ideal Deputy Chairman of the FSA?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2009/sir-james-crosby-must-resign.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Reaping the whirlwind</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/kpnigWEtPi0/reaping-the-whirlwind.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Gordon Brown has only himself to blame for the current industrial unrest.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2009/reaping-the-whirlwind.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Kristallnacht 2.0</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ZtCaNVH10-M/kristallnacht-2-0.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The sudden and alarming rise in anti-semitic attacks in this country has gone largely unreported.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2009/kristallnacht-2-0.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Russian blackmail must not succeed</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/WKDy7kwx54o/russian-blackmail-must-not-succeed.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Russia's blocking of gas supplies poses a dangerous political threat.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2009/russian-blackmail-must-not-succeed.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Creative thinking on climate change</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/lN68fpDpQ3w/creative-thinking-on-climate-change.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Creative solutions to the problem of climate change may not suit the agenda of the green lobby.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2009/creative-thinking-on-climate-change.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Israel attacks Hamas in Gaza</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/FmpqGRt9_kQ/israel-attacks-hamas-in-gaza.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Civilian casualties are a propaganda asset for Hamas.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2008/israel-attacks-hamas-in-gaza.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Grown-up politics for grown-up people</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/MdaoL9FKw2U/grown-up-politics-for-grown-up-people.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>This wasn't quite what we had in mind.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2008/grown-up-politics-for-grown-up-people.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The flagging pound</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/oZXuPaGXWG8/flagging-pound.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The falling value of the pound is not all bad news</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2008/flagging-pound.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Welcome back, Old Labour!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/iesOP-v_bII/welcome-back-old-labour.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Jeff Randall launches a blistering assault on Labour's record</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2008/welcome-back-old-labour.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Walking the walk</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/HCbbtgu5ehU/walking-the-walk.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>President Obama needs to show he can do more than talk.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2008/walking-the-walk.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Politics just got dirtier</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/UUXk05-8hyQ/politics-just-got-dirtier.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>George Osborne is paying the price for crossing Lord Mandelson.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2008/politics-just-got-dirtier.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Socialism by default</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/16yyWTfa3fo/socialism-by-default.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The government may not be able to run banks better than the bankers, but can they run them any worse?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2008/socialism-by-default.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mandelson's return</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/og18_hP1xmY/mandelsons-return.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The recall of Peter Mandelson to the government is a high risk strategy.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2008/mandelsons-return.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The War on Error</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/7hIf16jloK4/war-on-error.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>As the U.S. Congress argues over the proposed $700 million bail-out of Wall Street, Jeff Randall points to the wisdom of an earlier age.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2008/war-on-error.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Lib Dems see the light too late.</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/wLog2nP9l8I/lib-dems-see-the-light-too-late.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Lib Dem shift to a tax-cutting agenda may have come too late.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2008/lib-dems-see-the-light-too-late.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Getting real</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/4qHTcCbHt-4/getting-real.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Bankers have plenty of lessons to learn from this week's events.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2008/getting-real.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Can Brown meet the challenge?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/HfafYLzSNX8/can-brown-meet-challenge.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Gordon Brown is facing contradictory pressures.  Will he confront them or be consumed by them?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2008/can-brown-meet-challenge.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A national emergency</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/h_shf3j8MQ8/a-national-emergency.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The failure of Gordon Brown's premiership is not just a problem for the Labour Party.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2008/a-national-emergency.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Pakistan: An uncertain future</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/BVRm6ZtP10w/pakistan-uncertain-future.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Musharraf was never a reliable ally.  We are left with tremendous uncertainty in the region and an unstable nuclear state that could easily fall prey to extremism.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2008/pakistan-uncertain-future.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Warming or cooling?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/TO4l-o74XWw/warming-or-cooling.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Global warming is real but minuscule, argues one observer.  The bigger danger might be cooling.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2008/warming-or-cooling.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Peace in our time?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/NWULIyLZw48/peace-in-our-time.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Gerard Baker dissects Europe's defeatism on Georgia</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2008/peace-in-our-time.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Nanny joins the Tories</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/LGAjbhIDjE0/nanny-joins-the-tories.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Conservatives are the new enthusiasts for the Nanny State.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2008/nanny-joins-the-tories.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Blairites make their move</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/F445wnaVNNE/blairites-make-their-move.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>It's payback time for Gordon Brown.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2008/blairites-make-their-move.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Following, not leading</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vgbakrWNnEg/following-not-leading.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Labour might not be working, but are the Tories ready to lead?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2008/following-not-leading.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Big Brother wants your fridge</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/lIEJhn5LpdM/big-brother-wants-your-fridge.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The government has 1,043 excuses to enter your home or business.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2008/big-brother-wants-your-fridge.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>In search of Al Gore's marbles</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/VnAuj1rPFWI/in-search-of-al-gores-marbles.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Has Al Gore lost the plot completely?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2008/in-search-of-al-gores-marbles.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Welfare as a weapon of mass destruction</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/SAYpAR1K0fQ/welfare-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Simon Heffer points out the destructive effects of welfarism on the people of Glasgow East.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2008/welfare-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Situation vacant</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/SDg3ZsdvCe8/situation-vacant.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Benevolent dictator wanted - no experience necessary.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2008/situation-vacant.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>David Pinder thanks supporters</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/UeP0fi_B-1E/david-pinder-thanks-supporters.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Our candidate thanks supporters in the recent by-election.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2008/david-pinder-thanks-supporters.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>News release: New Party campaign welcomed in Haltemprice &amp; Howden</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/fOxNoJbQsv8/new-party-welcomed-haltemprice-howden.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>On the run up to election day, New Party candidate David Pinder reports that he is more than satisfied with the reaction he has received on the street.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2008/new-party-welcomed-haltemprice-howden.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>News release: Voters Unhappy in Haltemprice &amp; Howden</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/d2tE08Ae7WQ/voters-unhappy-in-haltemprice-howden.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>New Party candidate challenges David Davis to a public debate</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2008/voters-unhappy-in-haltemprice-howden.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The joy of by-elections</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/U1zzVNPoPrE/joy-of-by-elections.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Gordon Brown's Labour Party is full of surprises.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/joy-of-by-elections.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Into the fray</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/IE7VBMiVtHY/into-the-fray.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>David Pinder is the New Party's first UK Parliamentary election candidate.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/into-the-fray.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>News release: New Party to stand in Haltemprice &amp; Howden by-election</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/8Ww1c22SeFg/new-party-to-stand-in-haltemprice-howden-by-election.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The New Party today announced it is to contest the by-election caused by the resignation of David Davis</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/new-party-to-stand-in-haltemprice-howden-by-election.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>How stupid?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/sZelCd3RXrI/how-stupid.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Terrorist mastermind Abu Qatada is back on the streets.  Who put him there?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/how-stupid.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Bush legacy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/JFrFRnHpngo/bush-legacy.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The foreign policy of President Bush has done the oppressed of the world a great service.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/bush-legacy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A danger to democracy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vURsULzb_g8/a-danger-to-democracy.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>David Davis is no less guilty of manipulating the democratic process than Gordon Brown.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/a-danger-to-democracy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>An exercise in futility</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ph43gjGmzMg/an-exercise-in-futility.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>We need comprehensive and thoughtful solutions to the problems caused by the impact of counter-terrorist activity on civil liberties.  If the existing political parties cannot provide these, then a new party must.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/an-exercise-in-futility.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ireland says "No"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ATvRKXSO4x0/ireland-says-no.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>But Europe says "So what?"</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/ireland-says-no.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Who dares, wins?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/bEBfBCWtZeo/who-dares-wins.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>David Davis may be principled and courageous, but he is also self-indulgent.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/who-dares-wins.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Weasel words</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/dfs1eDjgefM/weasel-words.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Sir Simon Jenkins is a late convert to the "ideology of the fidget".</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/weasel-words.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The gates of Vienna are wide open</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/1Qhru_0Ilzw/gates-of-vienna-are-wide-open.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Civilisations die from suicide, not murder.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/gates-of-vienna-are-wide-open.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Testimony of a moral imbecile</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/lT1uNg2nXRA/testimony-of-a-moral-imbecile.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>A bishop likens climate change laggards to child abusers.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/testimony-of-a-moral-imbecile.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hate crimes of the West Midlands Police</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/xNy3ogDIOoY/hate-crimes-of-west-midlands-police.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Evidence is mounting of serious problems within the West Midlands Police.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2008/hate-crimes-of-west-midlands-police.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The reactionary left</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/HpkVSAGBlPM/reactionary-left.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The reactionary left has given up on universal values.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/reactionary-left.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Simple, really</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Hbf86v3C3uY/simple-really.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Melanie Phillips shows the way back from the edge of the precipice.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/simple-really.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>In the Brown stuff</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ey2rsonV4yE/in-the-Brown-stuff.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>We need strong, firm and effective leadership in these difficult economic times.  We are not likely to get it.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/in-the-Brown-stuff.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Big Brother: stupid but persistent</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/B4sRDipz2Gw/big-brother-stupid-but-persistent.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The government which cannot look after a pile of CDs wants to look after a database of all UK communications data.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/big-brother-stupid-but-persistent.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A show trial in Canada</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/kxZDCaB_CO0/show-trial-in-canada.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>If the complaints against Mark Steyn and Maclean's magazine are upheld, then Canada will no longer have the moral right to call itself a free country.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/show-trial-in-canada.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Big Brother is a klutz</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/CZB1ncxpuuA/big-brother-is-a-klutz.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>It's bad enough that Big Brother is watching us at all - worse still that he is also a big, bumbling fool.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/big-brother-is-a-klutz.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Not sorry enough</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Lnc41hla6C4/not-sorry-enough.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>An apology is not enough to end the "Undercover Mosque" scandal.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/not-sorry-enough.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Saving Burma</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/L7UmbAEBR-Q/saving-burma.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Burmese government should not be allowed to obstruct efforts to bring relief to its people.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/saving-burma.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Doing the decent thing</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/MWtGHqHvVe4/doing-the-decent-thing.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>A Labour supporter describes his commitment to true progressive values.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/doing-the-decent-thing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Good news and bad news for London</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/wnaatMj5iBQ/good-news-and-bad-news-for-london.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Boris Johnson's victory masks less encouraging developments in London politics.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/good-news-and-bad-news-for-london.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A dead duck</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/lMNYXgVzpUM/dead-duck.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>After the local election debacle the government is not a lame duck but a dead duck.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/dead-duck.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Party candidates make good progress</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/WYc5aJoJp9A/new-party-candidates-make-good-progress.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>New Party candidates have increased their vote again.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2008/new-party-candidates-make-good-progress.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Number-crunching Gaza</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/WmOPtGZ9VSU/number-crunching-gaza.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Gaza's problem is not its population density.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2008/number-crunching-gaza.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Labour's tax rebellion</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/8auVfYBLzTU/labours-tax-rebellion.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Labour MP's rebellion on the abolition of the 10p tax rate is not all it seems.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2008/labours-tax-rebellion.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Immoderate liberalism</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/E2mHDhp0UpI/immoderate-liberalism.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>In this day and age it takes courage to espouse real liberalism.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2008/immoderate-liberalism.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Admission not impossible</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/eG7OsjhrSAY/admission-not-impossible.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>It is no more impossible to provide parental choice in education than it is to provide a decent education system to serve all children.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2008/admission-not-impossible.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hanging separately</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/8vLVAaAbTIU/hanging separately.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>A government which did not know whether to hang together or hang separately has finally made up its mind.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2008/hanging separately.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>NATO fails Georgia and Ukraine</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/dochsxAmwes/nato-fails-georgia-and-ukraine.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>NATO's rebuff to Georgia and Ukraine is a blow to the cause of liberal democracy.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2008/nato-fails-georgia-and-ukraine.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Global cooling</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/4CJfDCtUrc8/global-cooling.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Global temperatures are going down again this year.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2008/global-cooling.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Sarkozy's gambit</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/cpHgGyPSO3U/sarkozys-gambit.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>President Sarkozy's position on Tibet is distinctly un-French.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2008/sarkozys-gambit.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Zimbabwe votes</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/eHMBe8Bcx6E/zimbabwe-votes.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Zimbabwe deserves to be rid of Mugabe's tyranny.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/zimbabwe-votes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Beyond apathy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/gXaoo_Mv0J4/beyond-apathy.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>If the political establishment is not providing a product that the electorate wants to buy, then the establishment needs to make a change before the voting public make it for them.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/beyond-apathy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Bananas</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/t0rsUs3Xo5U/bananas.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The kind of trade favoured by the green left is neither free, nor fair, nor humane.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/bananas.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Anyone but Ken?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vZz5CsMLiWE/anyone-but-ken.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Could it be that London is waking up to reality at last?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/anyone-but-ken.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A silver lining</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/DLlL1r1ukCw/silver-lining.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The McCartney/Mills divorce settlement is a satisfactory ending to a sad story.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/silver-lining.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Christophobia</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ARAg59a0A2A/christophobia.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Attacks on Christians are on the increase in some parts of the country.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/christophobia.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Pig in a Poke</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vSM4g25gqjk/pig-in-poke.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Treasury sells us an optimistic forecast in the midst of a downturn</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/pig-in-poke.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Oaths of allegiance</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/IyxpvXu4MyU/oaths-of-allegiance.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Is there any harm in requiring young people to make a public commitment to their society, community and nation?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/oaths-of-allegiance.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Change you can believe in?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/2IMTjGw9FhE/change-you-can-believe-in.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The Oval Office is a lousy place for on-the-job training.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/change-you-can-believe-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Paisley quits</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/sWnXN8Y_0Q0/paisley-quits.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>A long and remarkable political career comes to an end.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/paisley-quits.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Out-minging Ming</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ijEw9q7QvHc/out-minging-ming.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Even Sir Menzies Campbell could not manufacture a debacle of this magnitude.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2008/out-minging-ming.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Blowing Harry's cover</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/FLrc8k2szzo/blowing-harrys-cover.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Fortunately the Taliban don't read women's magazines</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/blowing-harrys-cover.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Oooooh!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/oAhnaPxLKX8/oooooh.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Which party can build the biggest bonfire of twenty pound notes?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/oooooh.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Worshipping tyrants</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/AE6z3LLmQK8/worshipping-tyrants.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Why do so many on the Left love dictators?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/worshipping-tyrants.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Wanted: a new broom</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/jQGyOwWPph8/wanted-a-new-broom.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Michael Martin should step down as Speaker.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/wanted-a-new-broom.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Kosovo matters</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/qTqVs6ZM8MM/kosovo-matters.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Kosovo highlights the necessity of European engagement in the spread of freedom and democracy.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/kosovo-matters.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>No confidence</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/tq1bSbKe7hU/no-confidence.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The Northern Rock fiasco is the last nail in the coffin of Labour's reputation for economic competence.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/no-confidence.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Democratic Imperative</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/F8EPDLW3O30/democratic-imperative.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>David Miliband indicates that the government remains committed to a liberal interventionist foreign policy.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/democratic-imperative.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Balls on culture</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/OtX-nMj4kss/balls-on-culture.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Eye-catching gimmicks and unrealistic aspirations are no substitute for a quality education system.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/balls-on-culture.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Food or fuel</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/kvDx0evBW64/food-or-fuel.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Increasing demand for biofuels must not jeopardise the food supply of developing nations.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/food-or-fuel.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Rendering unto Caesar</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/xWGy3eeK29U/rendering-unto-caesar.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury has undermined a basic tenet of the rule of law.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/rendering-unto-caesar.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Stalemate for Democrats as McCain marches on</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/K0wGlcnjk3A/stalemate-for-democrats-as-mccain-marches-on.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Much will depend on McCain's ability to rally his party behind him while the lengthy battle between Senators Clinton and Obama plays out.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/stalemate-for-democrats-as-mccain-marches-on.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Afghanistan cannot be abandoned</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Ggc84oE0hUg/afghanistan-cannot-be-abandoned.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The fainthearts who think the War on Terror can be ducked need to understand that the nature of the game has changed.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/afghanistan-cannot-be-abandoned.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>London's dilemma</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/A9n8ML7H5Rg/londons-dilemma.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>How is any intelligent Londoner to cast their vote?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/londons-dilemma.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Pervez Kambaksh</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/a_sT87O_xhE/pervez-kambaksh.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>International pressure may still save Afghan journalist Pervez Kambaksh from the death penalty for blasphemy.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2008/pervez-kambaksh.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Conway should go - but probably won't</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/JxL32a8jQlU/conway-should-go-but-probably-wont.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>How many other fingers are in the till?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/conway-should-go-but-probably-wont.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Yet another funding scandal</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vzGAXJ8B4lg/yet-another-funding-scandal.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>What we need now is not legislation, but compliance - and where compliance fails, enforcement.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/yet-another-funding-scandal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cowboys</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ljdIUKaKHXY/cowboys.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Not all cowboys are builders.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/cowboys.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ken's trots</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/bWkPvR_xqjc/kens-trots.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Martin Bright is just the latest left-winger to assert that Ken Livingstone is unfit for office.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/kens-trots.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>NHS failings leave 17,000 dead</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/_mmd45zPO9E/nhs-failings-leave-17000-dead.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>A report by the Taxpayers' Alliance demonstrates that socialist health care costs lives.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/nhs-failings-leave-17000-dead.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Greens face backlash on nuclear power</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/hlTU2EKgZTA/greens-face-backlash-on-nuclear-power.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>These are difficult times for neo-Luddites.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/greens-face-backlash-on-nuclear-power.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Organs of the state</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/zJkkmREzohM/organs-of-the-state.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Gordon Brown is proposing the nationalisation of the human body.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/organs-of-the-state.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Another Macavity moment</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/lLdVwAIzOI0/another-macavity-moment.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Gordon Brown has the authority to act on the Hain affair - if he chooses to use it.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/another-macavity-moment.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Sir John Harvey-Jones</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/NYlWVJfCYxw/sir-john-harvey-jones.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Sir John Harvey-Jones has died.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/sir-john-harvey-jones.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Too little, too late, too true</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/UkzwFEn8Ak8/too-little-too-late-too-true.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Green complaints about the government's decision in favour of nuclear power are disingenuous.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/too-little-too-late-too-true.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Misogynists vs racists</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/A7MKZtEavrk/misogynists-vs-racists.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The American presidency should not be decided on the basis of gender or race.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/misogynists-vs-racists.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The wrong man for the job?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/-z_yVvrSbU4/wrong-man-for-job.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Our prime minister is woefully unprepared for a job he has inherited based on a reputation built on sand.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/wrong-man-for-job.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Bad news for fat smokers</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/o78Q6d-c2nY/bad-news-for-fat-smokers.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The threat to withhold NHS treatment from smokers and the overweight is indicative of a wider problem.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2008/bad-news-for-fat-smokers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A martyr to democracy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/0JI5b0kTUZ0/a-martyr-to-democracy.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Benazir Bhutto should not die in vain.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/a-martyr-to-democracy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Clegg's bottle</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/2uK54Oh8Y6U/cleggs-bottle.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Has Nick Clegg got the courage to break new political ground?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/cleggs-bottle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Free press under attack in Canada</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/07zzAkqzvV0/free-press-under-attack-in-canada.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The charges against Mark Steyn and Macleans magazine are vexatious and politically motivated, and must at all costs be defeated.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/free-press-under-attack-in-canada.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The prospects for a new party</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/MkpDJUpE9c4/prospects-for-a-new-party.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>What is the rationale behind our new strategy and the Progress network?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/prospects-for-a-new-party.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Progress</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/jp81JkXJ-7o/progress.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Launch of our Progress network and a new direction</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/progress.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Macavity wasn't there</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/NFx9h6IGY4M/macavity-wasnt-there.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>If Brown believed in the Treaty he would have been there - but he doesn't want to associate himself with something he has foisted on the rest of us anyway.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/macavity-wasnt-there.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Police pay deal must be honoured</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/RO63pdG1ukw/police-pay-deal-must-be-honoured.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Police morale hardly needs to be dealt a further blow - least of all a blow below the belt.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/police-pay-deal-must-be-honoured.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Socialism for shoppers</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/47GZwE8YxK8/socialism-for-shoppers.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Nick Cohen describes how a consumerist version of socialism has led the left to adopt the world-view of the far right.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/socialism-for-shoppers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Think of a number (again)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/cUZrLKi735g/think-of-a-number-again.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Forty-two days detention without charge will only be enough until the day comes when the police need forty-three.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/think-of-a-number-again.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Spivocracy in action</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vSx70GjoQsA/spivocracy-in-action.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Traditionally scapegoats were simply led to the slaughter.  Now they have to be kept alive artificially to be endlessly tortured.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/spivocracy-in-action.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Naming teddy-bears</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/feopeMTQP2A/naming-teddy-bears.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The sentence against Gillian Gibbons was unjustified and wrong - and we should not be afraid to say so.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/december2007/naming-teddy-bears.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Bad news from Down Under</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/CvkTQ9kM-78/bad-news-from-down-under.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>A true friend of the West and defender of freedom has now left the stage.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/bad-news-from-down-under.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>This week's scandal</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/wpaF8nHTJkQ/this-weeks-scandal.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Brown's government is in office, but out of control.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/this-weeks-scandal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Calamity Clegg vs Horrible Huhne</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/UaIM_Ld5eWc/calamity-clegg-vs-horrible-huhne.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>British politics needs a vibrant, progressive liberal alternative: the Liberal Democrats are not in a position to provide one.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/calamity-clegg-vs-horrible-huhne.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Further inaccuracies highlighted in Gore film</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ySBVpB-l0Zw/further-inaccuracies-hightlighted-in-gore-film.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>We publish today court transcripts and witness statements listing further inaccuracies in Al Gore’s film</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/further-inaccuracies-hightlighted-in-gore-film.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Dysfunctional government</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/0meyWNqJ1g4/dysfunctional-government.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The Treasury is now merely an additional disaster area in the government which competence forgot.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/dysfunctional-government.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>London needs a new mayor</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Ze1MMxlOWuU/london-needs-a-new-mayor.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Ken Livingstone's sympathies are with those who would undermine freedom, democracy and the rule of law.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/london-needs-a-new-mayor.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Think of a number</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/dstlMyQ1_iU/think-of-a-number.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Your guess is as good as the Home Secretary's.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/think-of-a-number.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Remembrance</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ZurRD93dmnY/remembrance.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Those who have made the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf, and those who may be called upon to do so, deserve nothing less than our wholehearted admiration and gratitude in all circumstances.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/remembrance.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Dis-Respect</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/wVp6m1Tvby8/dis-respect.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>So much for the Unity Coalition</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/dis-respect.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Really simple stuff</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/9f3mc3oPBYo/really-simple-stuff.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The errors of the Metropolitan Police in the Menezes case were systematic organisational and elementary.  Only the head of the organisation can be responsible for this.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/really-simple-stuff.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Pakistan's real emergency</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/fDXDt71gLYk/pakistans-real-emergency.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The recent actions of President Musharraf are beyond the pale.  Democratic institutions and the rule of law must be re-established in Pakistan forthwith.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/pakistans-real-emergency.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Strange bedfellows</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/XjKKQbyJh9U/strange-bedfellows.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Political battle-lines are no longer drawn between left and right. Friends and foes are to be found at all points on the political spectrum</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/strange-bedfellows.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The buck stops with Blair</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/iAFxDogylEk/buck-stops-with-blair.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The failures of the Metropolitan Police demand a serious response, and honourable leadership.  The honourable course of action is for Sir Ian Blair to resign.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/november2007/buck-stops-with-blair.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The moral mission</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/hebSOrjsIbA/moral-mission.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Liberal interventionism - the liberation of the unfree by the free - is the moral mission of our age.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/moral-mission.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Standing against persecution</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/plWqgfrBOdc/standing-against-persecution.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>It's time for progressives to stand together to defend all victims of persecution.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/standing-against-persecution.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>In praise of heresy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/DatvS_e5KtI/in-praise-of-heresy.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>We are in the grip of a new totalitarianism promoted by the New Inquisition which seeks a monopoly on permissible thought.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/in-praise-of-heresy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Confused? You are not the only one</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/DkyfzWMWsGQ/confused-you-are-not-only-one.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>It's no longer conservatives versus liberals.  We are engaged in a whole new culture war between phoney and real progressives</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/confused-you-are-not-only-one.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Balls on "A" levels</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/36p7tQkaMHg/balls-on-a-levels.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>We need an educational counter-revolution to drive cultural Marxism out of our schools.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/balls-on-a-levels.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Great Danes</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/6v5khvo2BRc/great-danes.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Denmark has learned that those who avoid confrontation in the hope of a quiet life seldom find a quiet life.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/great-danes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Precisely</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/_zJCyBLHs5I/precisely.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Melanie Phillips sums up precisely why we need a new party.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/precisely.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The art of regicide</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/TQpfjwIZTs0/art-of-regicide.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Whilst Ming Campbell has not done particularly well, it is hard to see how any other leader might have done much better for the Liberal Democrats.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/art-of-regicide.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>From Tony to Phoney</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/FDGRQypM2GY/from-tony-to-phoney.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>A prime minister with no goal other than to keep his job is not a prime minister worth having.  We were far better off with Blair.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/from-tony-to-phoney.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Government plans "would have breached the Act"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/KstHbXjU4SY/government-plans-would-have-breached-act.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Judge orders Government to pay two-thirds of costs in Al Gore test case</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/government-plans-would-have-breached-act.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The man who ran away</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/o_IKuOJ1v8k/man-who-ran-away.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Gordon Brown is about to find out that clinging on by the fingertips can be a painful process.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/man-who-ran-away.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/4VGPE6jgW7s/ayaan-hirsi-ali.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Dutch government has failed to live up to its longstanding reputation as a haven of free expression in the world.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/ayaan-hirsi-ali.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Government U-Turn in Al Gore High Court Battle</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/3vYid9lKADM/government-u-turn-in-al-gore-high-court-battle.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The High Court Slams An Inconvenient Truth</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/government-u-turn-in-al-gore-high-court-battle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Government forced to work overtime on Al Gore "health warning"</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/bfpdSXbKDEc/government-works-overtime-on-gore-film.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Civil Servants were drafted in to work overtime at the weekend to revise government guidelines in its climate change pack</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/government-works-overtime-on-gore-film.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Let the people speak</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/SSp7e-rJtJY/let-the-people-speak.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>There is an appetite in the country for a genuine alternative.  The voters should be given a chance to demand one.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/let-the-people-speak.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Press release: High Court set to judge Al Gore Film</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Y8QnitB_AuA/high-court-to-judge-al-gore-film.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The New Party is backing a legal challenge by one of its members against a government decision to circulate Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, to all 3,850 English secondary schools.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/high-court-to-judge-al-gore-film.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Standing idly by</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/bW_yhjFUAqE/standing-idly-by.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The trust between citizen and state on which our freedom depends is eroding.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/standing-idly-by.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Getting away with it</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/FbT9t2pdu0U/getting-away-with-it.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>There is nothing original, nothing new about Gordon Brown's Labour.  Style is still striving to overcome substance.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/getting-away-with-it.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The abdication of leadership</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/dcKlJ2sJ4z0/abdication-of-leadership.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Leaders in a democratic society must always be accountable, but they must always be leaders.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/abdication-of-leadership.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Dying out of turn</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/udToidF22No/dying-out-of-turn.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The key performance indicator for a health care system is favourable health outcomes, not fairness.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/dying-out-of-turn.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Time to end Mugabe's tyranny</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/fhe0AJ_Nt5E/time-to-end-mugabes-tyranny.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>If the African Union is unaware of the damage done to its own reputation by complicity in the oppression of the people of Zimbabwe, then it is not for the European Union to overlook the fact.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/time-to-end-mugabes-tyranny.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Liberal Democrats retreat from reality</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/8GShZZfRw6U/liberal-democrats-retreat-from-reality.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Liberal Democrats are the last of the three main parties to realise that left wing economics doesn't work.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/liberal-democrats-retreat-from-reality.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tea with Maggie</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/AyhL-js_eFE/tea-with-maggie.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>In Tory circles since 1990 the term "conviction politician" has generally referred to a politician who has been convicted.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/tea-with-maggie.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The TUC: who cares?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/rwpbnQ9k_BQ/tuc-who-cares.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The annual Trades Union Congress is an increasingly strange and irrelevant affair.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/tuc-who-cares.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Inquiries we don't need</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/dLTLGrejqUA/inquiries-we-dont-need.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>In no circumstances should inquiries act as a substitute for the normal democratic process.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/inquiries-we-dont-need.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Facing up to global challenges</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/6QllFvBVhig/facing-up-to-global-challenges.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Making the right decisions includes accepting the risk of failure.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/facing-up-to-global-challenges.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cameron pays the price</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/tPryHRfAOxo/cameron-pays-the-price.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Conservative leader is learning to his cost that ideology is indispensable.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/cameron-pays-the-price.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The sacred cow</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Y_gMZStQTX0/sacred-cow.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>It is time to put the NHS out of our misery.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/sacred-cow.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>US Presidential Candidates II: The Democrats</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Ri2_ee06hWM/us-presidential-candidates-2.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The race among Democrats is very different to that among Republicans.  Hillary Clinton is proving to be a tough candidate to beat.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/september2007/us-presidential-candidates-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A primer on global warming</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Y4Zd-vhURzY/primer-on-global-warming.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The National Center for Policy Analysis has produced a splendid new resource on climate change.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2007/primer-on-global-warming.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Rebuilding communities</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/-GJAB1yhV1M/rebuilding-communities.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>There are no quick fixes: what is required is wholesale cultural renewal.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2007/rebuilding-communities.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>US Presidential Candidates I: The Republicans</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/QIGlFvScoi8/us-presidential-candidates-1.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>An uncertain race for the Republican nomination sees a waning John McCain and surprising consistency from Rudy Giuliani</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2007/us-presidential-candidates-1.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Learco Chindamo: outrage and opportunism</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/inoW0nepnew/learco-chindamo.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The question to be answered is simple: is Chindamo a continuing risk to the public?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2007/learco-chindamo.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hari takes on Harry</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/G0yqVfA-5pQ/hari-takes-on-harry.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>When political stances change, friendships can turn sour</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2007/hari-takes-on-harry.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Britain's multipolar disorder</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/qxhSx2Uf654/britains-multipolar-disorder.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Britain's foreign policy is suffering from multipolar disorder.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/august2007/britains-multipolar-disorder.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Unwelcome suitors</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/9MfqG1E6Jx4/unwelcome-suitors.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Thanks for the invitation, lads - but no thanks</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/unwelcome-suitors.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Summer holidays</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/XNbXmiDDzmo/summer-holidays.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Updates will continue throughout the summer holiday period.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/summer-holidays.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The loser tendency</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/4G1LeSYV3Kg/loser-tendency.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Those who have abandoned their support for the war are contributing to the defeat of the West and the betrayal of Enlightenment values.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/loser-tendency.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Acts of God</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vsjGWZwM7Lo/acts-of-god.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Most people are content to excuse politicians from responsibility for the flooding.  They do however like to think they are paying attention.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/acts-of-god.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>By-election blues</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/cXjFHs6c1PM/by-election-blues.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>After Thursday's disastrous election results the vultures are circling for David Cameron.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/by-election-blues.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A monument to fear</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/VzcH_sa0GmY/a-monument-to-fear.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The NHS has become entrenched in the public consciousness as irreplaceable and unchallengeable because of fear of the possible alternatives.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/a-monument-to-fear.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tintin and the commissars' revenge</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/0GrdhP9mkSE/tintin-and-commissars-revenge.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Has the Belgian hero finally met his nemesis?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/tintin-and-commissars-revenge.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Nearly liberal</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/psKMNsMvTVg/nearly-liberal.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Liberal Democrats championing tax cuts?  Can it be true?  Sadly not.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/nearly-liberal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Family matters</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/6FM9wnu2R8I/family-matters.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The family is the issue by which the true mettle of David Cameron's leadership will be tested.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/family-matters.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>You don't have to be Jewish</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/0XNTDLs3JkE/you-dont-have-to-be-jewish.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>You don't have to be Jewish to be on the receiving end of anti-semitism - nor even to stand against it.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/you-dont-have-to-be-jewish.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The great NHS swindle</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ku8n5-rIqzk/great-nhs-swindle.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>There is no such thing as free health care.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/great-nhs-swindle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Constitutional tinkering</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/YA4wrL8aO6M/constitutional-tinkering.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>There are major constitutional issues to be dealt with, but Gordon Brown's government appears unwilling to address them.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/constitutional-tinkering.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Elephants and ostriches</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/1HH5CEVbj6k/elephants-and-ostriches.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Now that the Blairite elephant has left the room, the political ostriches are heaving a great sigh of relief and choosing to bury their heads in the sand.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/elephants-and-ostriches.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Has Boris got news for London?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/4_Ym40erv-Q/has-boris-got-news-for-london.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>It may be time to look at other ways to govern London.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/july2007/has-boris-got-news-for-london.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Brown inheritance: Britain under attack</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/DLe7A-eXxr0/britain-under-attack.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>British foreign policy must remain focused and determined: idealistic in terms of the need to defend and extend freedom and democracy; realistic in terms of the costs and benefits of intervention, as against failing to intervene.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/britain-under-attack.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Blair Legacy III - The International Scene</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/H4I4xzKtT9E/bllair-legacy-3-international-scene.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>In a less turbulent era Blair might have been more universally appreciated, but that should not detract from what he has done</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/bllair-legacy-3-international-scene.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Blair Legacy II - The Domestic Agenda</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/1WkVH-nUMIE/blair-legacy-2-domestic-agenda.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The promise of reform never materialised under Blair.  He ceded too much influence to Gordon Brown.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/blair-legacy-2-domestic-agenda.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Blair Legacy I - The Labour Party</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vVSiY4yF9T8/blair-legacy-1-labour-party.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Did Blair really change the Labour party?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/blair-legacy-1-labour-party.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Elected mayors and term limits</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/eD7xLemf_9k/elected-mayors-and-term-limits.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Elected mayors stick out like a constitutional sore thumb.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/elected-mayors-and-term-limits.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Liberal Democrats and the art of cabinet making</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/G7dD14ffbfA/liberal-democrats-cabinet-making.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Lord Ashdown has better things to do than serve as a trophy in Gordon Brown's cabinet.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/liberal-democrats-cabinet-making.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Sir Salman Rushdie</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/hfNJ_b4EyUo/sir-salman-rushdie.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>As Salman Rushdie's honour is clearly merited, for it to be withheld on the grounds of political cowardice would be invidious indeed.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/sir-salman-rushdie.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Politics without principle</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/nrWl2E8yqVA/politics-without-principle.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>We do not need bandwagon jumpers and dedicated followers of fashion.  David Cameron is failing the test.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/politics-without-principle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Impartiality and the BBC</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/z5mJbWidXI8/impartiality-and-the-bbc.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The BBC report on its own impartiality demonstrates only that it has failed to understand the problem.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/impartiality-and-the-bbc.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ming the Marxist</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/0LXLNHGUJgY/ming-the-marxist.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Liberal Democrats' new housing proposals are anything but liberal.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/ming-the-marxist.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Palestinians killing each other: Israel blamed</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/46zfAfHJdWU/palestinians-killing-each-other.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The responsibility for Palestinian violence lies with Palestinians.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/palestinians-killing-each-other.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hari's hysteria</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/QR7bf5lZhB4/haris-hysteria.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Johann Hari has a plan to save us all.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/haris-hysteria.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>State funded parties: a threat to democracy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/uPjBPIZICGM/state-funded-parties.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The notion of state funding of political parties is ill-conceived and damaging.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/state-funded-parties.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Totalitarian environmentalism</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ky1NCnE2Gak/totalitarian-environmentalism.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Vaclav Klaus compares modern environmentalism to communist oppression.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/totalitarian-environmentalism.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hitchens vs Hitchens vs God</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/xFhqJqME564/hitchens-vs-hitchens-vs-god.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Hitchens brothers are at odds on the subject of religion.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/hitchens-vs-hitchens-vs-god.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Antisemitism in the UK: no shame, no fear</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/KeqznwKgBYU/antisemitism-in-uk.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Antisemitism in the UK is increasingly brazen.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/antisemitism-in-uk.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A new Cold War?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/9EeHZiekMaU/new-cold-war.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>A new row between Russia and the United States threatens a new Cold War.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/new-cold-war.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The assassination of Graham Brady</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/IRIqwHAfNxA/assassination-of-graham-brady.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>An intelligent and reasonably articulate front bencher (by the 
unexacting standards of the modern Conservative Party, at any rate) has been sacrificed for one reason only: pour encourager les autres.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/june2007/assassination-of-graham-brady.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Bin and gone</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ZkGPF3n7NE8/bin-and-gone.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>That so many people persist in believing that "public services" are better than privately provided services is a testament to the effectiveness of decades of socialist black propaganda.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/bin-and-gone.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>In praise of Peter Tatchell</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Q2sEdoClz2A/in-praise-of-peter-tatchell.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Peter Tatchell is hardly a natural ally of the New Party; nevertheless courage and integrity in politics deserves to be applauded.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/in-praise-of-peter-tatchell.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>When Nanny goes bad</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ssPioR08bBs/when-nanny-goes-bad.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Is it too much to ask that experts just give us the facts, and let us make up our own mind?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/when-nanny-goes-bad.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Liberal Democrats fail to bridge the credibility gap</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/fuUTByGv5LY/liberal-democrats-credibility-gap.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The credibility of the third party, never more than shaky in any event, has been considerably damaged.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/liberal-democrats-credibility-gap.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Control orders</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/wuKPnOv-ELI/control-orders.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The failure to enforce control orders effectively makes a mockery of national security and human rights.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/control-orders.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Political convergence threatens democracy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/662fgmjgWLA/political-convergence-threatens-democracy.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The convergence of the three main parties in the political centre ground denies the British people a choice.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/political-convergence-threatens-democracy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Freedom, respect and cowardice</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/J54AdimAcJY/freedom-respect-and-cowardice.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The current vogue for the avoidance of offence is not out of respect for the
views of others, but rather a capitulation to the intimidation of extremists.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/freedom-respect-and-cowardice.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Towards a fairer education system</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/jwDJgKXoKAk/towards-a-fairer-education-system.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Academic selection is not the most important factor in devising a fairer education system.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/towards-a-fairer-education-system.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Gaza's misery</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/fPFrJcWN_Y8/gazas-misery.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Gaza is occupied by rival gangs of terrorists, criminals and fanatics, who are making the lives of their own people a misery.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/gazas-misery.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Wasting police time</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/CGATvE9SoOc/wasting-police-time.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Whitehall's target culture is alienating the police from the people they serve.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/wasting-police-time.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>David Cameron: a blight on British politics</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/jwGsfi5Y5Jg/david-cameron-blight-on-british-politics.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Say anything, do anything to create the desired image - the content doesn't really matter to the new model Tories.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/david-cameron-blight-on-british-politics.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Letwin's hiatus</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Ts92ikPIrvM/letwins-hiatus.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Oliver Letwin speaks of a hiatus in political thought but has no means of bringing it to an end.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/letwins-hiatus.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>France decides (part two)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/7JI_uwdtaxE/france-decides-part-two.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The French have been provided with a meaningful choice and a proper political debate - which is more than British voters can expect.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/france-decides-part-two.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A slight inconvenience</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/7AeHc846YOU/slight-inconvenience.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The New Party is backing a legal fight over the government's distribution of Al Gore's film to secondary schools in England</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/slight-inconvenience.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Labour looks into the abyss</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/4djca-4PSfY/labour-looks-into-abyss.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The Blairites' surrender means the Blair vs Brown war is over.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/labour-looks-into-abyss.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Britain undecided</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/sC7VjfjVeas/britain-undecided.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Thursday's election results paint a confusing picture.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/britain-undecided.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Encouraging results for New Party candidates</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/6XoDf3Cdb2Y/encouraging-results-for-new-party-candidates.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Election results for New Party candidates show steady progress and cause for optimism in the future.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/may2007/encouraging-results-for-new-party-candidates.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Sarkozy's unlikely supporters</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ip0NZaPCTqQ/sarkozys-unlikely-supporters.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Nicolas Sarkozy is receiving support from some unlikely quarters.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/sarkozys-unlikely-supporters.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Overheated rhetoric on climate change</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/I-i5GWlbvqY/overheated-rhetoric-on-climate-change.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Lazy thinking behind so much comment on climate change is extremely unhelpful.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/overheated-rhetoric-on-climate-change.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Modern slavery</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vn1PcF_zWiU/modern-slavery.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The BBC's exposure of how legal migrant workers are routinely exploited shows that this needs to be taken seriously as a political issue</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/modern-slavery.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Making the underground run on time</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/hAFyOVxHAps/making-underground-run-on-time.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Ken Livingstone is bringing our capital city into disrepute.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/making-underground-run-on-time.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Yeltsin, the improbable hero</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/pNm4tZLQgR0/yeltsin-the-improbable-hero.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The momentous achievement of the man who outlawed communism in Russia must be honoured.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/yeltsin-the-improbable-hero.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>France decides (part one)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/4DdQ48jK_GI/france-decides-part-one.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Sarkozy offers a new vision for France.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/france-decides-part-one.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Holocaust denial and the incitement of religious hatred</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/2Yn2bZBtPGk/holocaust-denial-and-incitement-of-religious-hatred.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>There is more to the EU's law on holocaust denial than meets the eye.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/holocaust-denial-and-incitement-of-religious-hatred.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Another brick in the wall</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/gG-nuHa-afY/another-brick-in-the-wall.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>What is the difference between propaganda and education?  Don't bother asking government ministers, they don't know.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/another-brick-in-the-wall.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Abortion: rights and responsibilities</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/sRq7-0Tkwhs/abortion-rights-and-responsibilities.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>It is reasonable to expect women to appreciate and exercise the responsibility that accompanies the right to choose an abortion.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/abortion-rights-and-responsibilities.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Universal values</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/clu8Wv-1W5M/universal-values.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The values which the world needs are not universal values, they are Western values.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/universal-values.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>"Don't just do something, stand there."</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/9-cRTiFeKl0/dont-just-do-something-stand-there.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Gordon Brown needs to learn that where government is concerned, less is more.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/dont-just-do-something-stand-there.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Why local government is a load of rubbish</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Y2NHMbwq3Ug/why-local-government-is-a-load-of-rubbish.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Council tax payers are justifiably angry that while council tax bills soar, quality of service continues to fall.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/why-local-government-is-a-load-of-rubbish.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The United Nations: what moral authority?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/n-Gh9M6WcQ0/united-nations-what-moral-authority.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The United Nations is widely regarded as a moral arbiter for the world - a beacon of moral authority in a world of lawlessness and war.  The truth is precisely the opposite.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/united-nations-what-moral-authority.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Take politics out of the classroom</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/1Epdp6L6XY8/take-politics-out-of-the-classroom.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>While there will always be good and bad teachers, the real problem lies elsewhere.  The government has to shoulder its share of the blame.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/take-politics-out-of-the-classroom.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ideology is not a dirty word</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/YEIfjhV2pP4/ideology-is-not-a-dirty-word.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>What is it that makes a particular political party necessary?</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/ideology-is-not-a-dirty-word.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>How to banish cynicism</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/dUIq9m5tCjc/how-to-banish-cynicism.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>While cynicism about politics is unfortunate, the damage to the image of politicians is largely self-inflicted.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/how-to-banish-cynicism.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Our very own Quebec</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/1tv4VVMMR5Q/our-very-own-quebec.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The SNP cannot offer independence - but they can waste a lot of time and energy.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/our-very-own-quebec.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Action or appeasement?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/X0zSdgjdkBY/action-or-appeasement.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Iran uses hostage-taking as a weapon of war.  We must not indulge their habit.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/action-or-appeasement.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Making history history</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/jnnIgLoQiNE/making-history-history.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>History is a challenging subject which the education system must not seek to avoid.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/april2007/making-history-history.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Creating a nation of imbeciles</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/7R8ray4GJKc/creating-a-nation-of-imbeciles.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Some leaders of our education system would rather not teach children anything at all.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/creating-a-nation-of-imbeciles.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Splitting the Home Office is no solution</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/jtD36odxGxI/splitting-the-home-office-is-no-solution.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The troubles of the Home Office are political, not organisational.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/splitting-the-home-office-is-no-solution.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The extinction of choice</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/x8qagnocfdw/the-extinction-of-choice.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Peter Hitchens argues that Blairism has destroyed the Conservative Party, resulting in the extinction of choice in British politics.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/the-extinction-of-choice.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Northern Ireland's next step</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/VmRReRulSjg/northern-ireland-next-step.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams have taken a step forward in Northern Ireland.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/northern-ireland-next-step.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Chancellor's iron grip - on power</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/sMeivDbxvkY/chancellors-iron-grip-on-power.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Forget the economics - this is politics as usual.  The Chancellor is extending the government's control over all of us.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/chancellors-iron-grip-on-power.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Signs of realignment in France</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/yed5Q_WBSD4/signs-of-realignment-in-France.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The fight for the Enlightenment has come home</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/signs-of-realignment-in-France.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Heroes of Zimbabwe</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/cKWqtvZWcvg/heroes-of-zimbabwe.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Zimbabwe's democracy campaigners have a difficult and dangerous task</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/heroes-of-zimbabwe.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Clueless Cameron's NHS con-trick</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/VcJZjmYlTjE/clueless-camerons-nhs-con-trick.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>David Cameron insults the intelligence of the British people</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/clueless-camerons-nhs-con-trick.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Press Release: New Party’s proposal endorsed in funding review</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/WR6z_q5jVak/pr-funding-review.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>The New Party today thanked Sir Hayden Phillips for supporting its proposal for exemptions from a cap on donations for smaller parties.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/pr-funding-review.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Sovietised science betrays Enlightenment values</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/zKzaOWa45ZY/sovietised-science-betrays-enlightenment-values.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Science is on the threshold of a new dark age</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/sovietised-science-betrays-enlightenment-values.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Labour goes back to the eighties</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/sTGtL766oxw/labour-goes-back-to-eighties.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><description>Labour's rebellion on nuclear weapons sounds like the good old days</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/labour-goes-back-to-eighties.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A convenient lie?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/UtmBvzJyb8Y/convenient-lie.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Some in the scientific establishment just don't want certain arguments to be heard</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/convenient-lie.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Why Lesotho-on-Thames is the better option</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/sJhPDvrAc_Y/why-lesotho-on-thames-is-better-option.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>House of Lords reform is based on flawed assumptions</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/why-lesotho-on-thames-is-better-option.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>British politics: Is it dead yet?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/jxuyQbx7c_o/british-politics-is-it-dead-yet.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Meaningful political debate is clearly absent</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/british-politics-is-it-dead-yet.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cameron's dad-bashing campaign</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/a5UJsSJGQd8/camerons-dad-bashing-campaign.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>David Cameron has been making noises about the family again</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/camerons-dad-bashing-campaign.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Forthcoming meetings</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/2O14CRcTcz4/forthcoming-meetings.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Notices of meetings coming up</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/forthcoming-meetings.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Public sector pay will always be poor</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/RO6Xlfaiwto/public-sector-pay-will-always-be-poor.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>But the unions do not want to hear the reasons why</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/public-sector-pay-will-always-be-poor.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>It's official: Education is a lottery</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/mSBE7Pr5RWM/its-official-education-is-lottery.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The unintended consequences of government education policies</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/march2007/its-official-education-is-lottery.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The vision thing</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/K4f0fK2lIrQ/vision-thing.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The real name of the game is: Stop Gordon at all costs</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/vision-thing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A new narrative</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vlZgz_1gjyA/new-narrative.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>It is not only the Labour party that is deficient</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/new-narrative.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Reduce, reuse, fly stuff half-way across the planet, recycle</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/ZdMbSkBDK2A/reduce-reuse-fly-stuff.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>We don't want to seem fanatical about this, but some things just can't be left to pass without comment.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/reduce-reuse-fly-stuff.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Repairing the family</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/STTSJUbCFiQ/repairing-family.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The recent spate of murders in South London has generated plenty of debate about the state of our society, the reasons why such awful things can occur and what should be done about it.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/repairing-family.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>EU reverts to stealth politics</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/R7eyL5IYiYo/eu-reverts-to-stealth-politics.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Recent setbacks have caused the EU to revert to its traditional means of furthering integration</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/eu-reverts-to-stealth-politics.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Road pricing follies</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/AONHSbGVjIs/road-pricing-follies.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The proposed scheme is fundamentally flawed</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/road-pricing-follies.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Greens for climate change</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/kYa8Y7VQU-s/greens-for-climate-change.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>If they believe global warming is man-made, they seem to be trying very hard to bring it about</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/greens-for-climate-change.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Forthcoming meeting</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/vwhZFznxy_U/forthcoming-meeting.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Staffordshire event listing</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/forthcoming-meeting.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Illiberal education</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/RHrH9Cq9e9k/illiberal-education.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Cambridge should back freedom of thought and expression</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/illiberal-education.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>So what?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/JV4VzuqZkUY/so-what.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>It is of course possible to be too cynical about these things, but nevertheless we smell a rat</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/so-what.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Why public services fail</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/I5tap7nd1w8/why-public-services-fail.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Large scale, monolithic public services will never be as efficient as private sector organisations</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/why-public-services-fail.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Environmental hysteria makes for bad policy</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/yI0-iR2FfUE/environmental-hysteria-makes-for-bad-policy.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>It's not only about the causes of climate change</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/environmental-hysteria-makes-for-bad-policy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Britain is not a police state</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/gO0YvIs0Ni4/britain-is-not-police-state.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>In a police state, the police do not sniff too closely around the head of government</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/britain-is-not-police-state.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Keep politics out of the House of Lords</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/C6B5uhB5xiI/keep-politics-out-of-house-of-lords.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The government's half-baked reforms are on the way</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/keep-politics-out-of-house-of-lords.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Muslim heroes</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/-ogJB4Jvujc/muslim-heroes.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Muslims who serve in the forces deserve great credit</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/muslim-heroes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Health care rationing in the NHS</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/A3XA6LaT8H8/health-care-rationing-in-nhs.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Monolithic state-run services can seriously damage your health</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/february2007/health-care-rationing-in-nhs.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A government in meltdown</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/2YUSG9Gi8rU/government-in-meltdown.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The New Labour train appears to be about to hit the buffers</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/government-in-meltdown.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cameron's socialist phrase book</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/xGfR0XOzGxA/camerons-socialist-phrase-book.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Cameron's remarks on the public services reveal his party's confusion on the issue</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/camerons-socialist-phrase-book.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The limits to tolerance</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Qz4s_kEtYsE/limits-to-tolerance.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>A society which is serious about expecting tolerance from its citizens needs to show some tolerance itself</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/limits-to-tolerance.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Raising the white flag</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/Pxztafi8vDg/raising-white-flag.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>A staggeringly false claim for the moral high ground</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/raising-white-flag.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Protecting the public (2)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/PHMIRVht3fg/protecting-public-2.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>We now have a situation whereby sentencing of criminals is being determined not by the potential danger to the public or the severity of the offence, but by the capacity of our prisons</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/protecting-public-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Brown's big idea</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/qk479vYvyzs/browns-big-idea.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The folly of Brown's written constitution</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/browns-big-idea.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Paying for health care</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/U2GMytsfxT8/paying-for-health-care.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>We could all receive better health care without the government getting in the way</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/paying-for-health-care.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Making sense of climate change</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/mqDjA_wOwBs/making-sense-of-climate-change.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The trouble with a lot of what passes for scientific debate about climate change is that it doesn't appear to be very scientific</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/making-sense-of-climate-change.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cameron's Tories: Neither conservative nor liberal</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/jjO2evL8tSE/cmaerons-tories-neither-conservative-nor-liberal.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>They have misunderstood conservatism and adopted a form of socialism, bypassing liberalism in the process</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/cmaerons-tories-neither-conservative-nor-liberal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>State of the Union</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/W9C0NoIkgb0/state-of-union.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>The defects of devolution have weakened the union.  We need reform to restore the balance.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/state-of-union.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Live now, pay later</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/EhnzSK2IKDQ/live-now-pay-later.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>Not a health philosophy for our society.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/live-now-pay-later.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Protecting the public</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/B71zQ2O3n9E/protecting-public.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>John Reid is holding the poisoned chalice - the Home Office</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/protecting-public.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A parent's right to choose</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newparty/~3/CRQEgZV8Wig/parents-right-to-choose.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><description>A tough week for the government on education policy.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://newparty.co.uk/news/january2007/parents-right-to-choose.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
