Archive for April, 2010

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nicksarebi via Flickr Creative CommonsNo longer a joke, Zamora should be considered for England

As his performance against Wolfsburg this week again illustrated, Fulham’s Bobby Zamora could slot effortlessly into England’s World Cup gameplan, argues Huw Harrow

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Cabinet Predictions

With the possibility of a hung parliament in the upcoming election, Nouse Politics has picked potential cabinets in the event of a coalition government

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British National Party

The British National Party (BNP) are said to be contesting around 200 seats in the General Election as part of the next instalment of their ‘modernization’ platform. Fresh from success in the EU elections last year they are hoping to pick up their first ever Westminster seat. The European elections used the Proportional Representation (PR) [...]

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Conservatives

Seemingly back from the political abyss after three successive General Election defeats, David Cameron’s rebranded “Compassionate Conservatism” has clawed back support for the Conservatives over the past few years, with opinion polls putting the party’s national lead over Labour between four and eight percent. Given the revised constituency boundaries being adopted in the coming election, [...]

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English Democrats

The English Democrats Party (EDP) was founded with the aim of advancing the interests of the English people. Robin Tilbrook, its founder and chairman, describes the party as ‘neither right nor left wing’, but comparable to the SNP in Scotland. This election will see the party field 120 candidates in an effort to build on [...]

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Green Party

The Green Party campaign for the up and coming General Election aims to embody their message “Fair is worth fighting for”. Party leader for both England and Wales, Caroline Lucas MEP maintains that the Greens wish to stand apart from the “identical main parties”. Also, she wants to abolish the preconceived tree-hugger label -promising to [...]

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Labour

The Labour party have been in power since 1997 where ‘New Labour’ marked a shift towards the centre for the historically left wing party after 18 years in opposition. Tony Blair’s premiership from 1997 till 2007 saw devolution for Scotland, Wales and Northern Island, the independence of the Bank of England, the introduction of university [...]

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Liberal Democrats

Party Slogan: Change that works for you, building a fairer Britain 2005 Parliamentary Elections: 62 seats It seems unlikely that Nick Clegg, leader of The Liberal Democrats, will be elected Prime Minister on May 6th. He does however hold an influential role in which party does obtain power in the House of Commons. In the [...]

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UK Independence Party

UKIP were formed in 1994. Since then, they have met with some success, earning 16% of the vote in each the 2004 and 2009 EU Parliamentary Elections. However, they still stand accused of being a single issue party, with withdrawing from the EU their main concern. Their 17-point election manifesto aims to refute this. Withdrawal [...]

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Jamie Luck with school children, copyright: RSCRCS’ Jamie Luck lets Nouse into the secret of Shakespeare’s unremitting success

There are statues, memorials and theatre companies dedicated to him worldwide, and throngs of camera-wielding tourists descend on his birthplace daily, but how is it that sixteenth century playwright William Shakespeare remains so popular after all these centuries?

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Terrorism

I’m sure I was not the only one looking forward to watching the Young Actors Company’s latest instalment at the Theatre Royal; it follows the success of Equus back in October, and worked off another weighty script of potent socio-political relevance

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Incremental site redesign

Over the past month the nouse.co.uk team has been conducting user experience testing on our visitors

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