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           <title>Blog: Justice can cross borders thanks to the EU</title>
           
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  Rachid Ramda bombed the Paris Metro in 1995. Eight people were killed in this terrorist outrage. He then escaped to Britain.
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           <title>Blog: Huge cost of phantom injuries</title>
           
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  Across the country, Accident and Emergency (A &amp; E) Departments are under huge pressure. But there’s one “injury” which patients very rarely present. That’s whiplash.
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           <title>Blog: Scottish independence is a mirage</title>
           
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  WHEN I first came to Blackburn, the place was awash with Scots who’d fled south, they told me, for the weather, the women, the work, or a combination of all three.
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           <title>Blog: Margaret Thatcher DOES deserve her tributes</title>
           
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  Napoleon claimed that what he wanted of his generals, above all, was that they should be ‘lucky’.
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           <title>Blog: Policing is a matter of respect</title>
           
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  It’s not often that my jaw drops on reading a news item, but it did when I first saw the report that a Police Constable Kelly Jones, of Norfolk Constabulary, was suing Mr Steve Jones (no relation), a garage owner, for injuries she claims to have received while on a midnight call-out to investigate a suspected crime.
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           <title>Blog: Rail on track for a bright future</title>
           
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  Steam engines are wonderful machines; with their pulsating rhythms, almost human. I love them, to look at, to hear; even their smell is evocative.
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           <title>Column: Was my decision on Iraq right?</title>
           
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  THIS week, 10 years ago, I was facing the consequences of the most serious decision I have ever made: To go to war against Iraq.
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           <title>Blog: Lower tax and higher cost will help</title>
           
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  AM I facing both ways at once? Two weeks ago in this column I called for the Chancellor to freeze the beer duty ‘escalator’ – the two per cent above-inflation rise in beer tax.
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           <title>Blog: Call time on the beer duty escalator</title>
           
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  The beer duty “escalator” was introduced in 2008 by the last Labour government. I voted for it.
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           <title>Blog: Statisticians' insights are good news for Blackburn Rovers</title>
           
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  I might be eccentric, but I really like numbers. They are the stuff of life. We couldn’t do without them.
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           <title>Comment: 'Health and safety' saves thousands of lives</title>
           
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  It’s less than three weeks since over 200 people were killed at the Kiss night club in Santa Maria, Brazil, but already the memory has faded.
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           <title>Blog: The I was almost torn in half by two important issues</title>
           
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  I was almost torn in two on Tuesday. Blackburn, or Westminster, that was the question. Jobs, or gay marriage, that was the choice.
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           <title>Blog: North West gets second best</title>
           
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  NONE of us can chose our parents, nor where we’re born.
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           <title>Blog: Rape could have been in the UK</title>
           
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  A YOUNG woman going home with her boyfriend is gang-raped on a bus. Complicit in the crime, the bus driver tries to run over the victim. She dies some days later.
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           <title>Blog: Britain leads the world on CCTV</title>
           
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  Last Monday a bag with explosive devices was found at the central railway station of Bonn, the city that used to be the capital of West Germany before the Berlin Wall came down.
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           <title>Column: Tax avoiders have edge on firms that pay</title>
           
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  Amazon took £3.35 billion off the British public last year. That’s £50 from every person in the UK.
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           <title>We still have a long way to go to achieve an equal society</title>
           
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  How could Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, and Victoria all succeed to the Throne, when the rules gave preference to male heirs?
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           <title>Column: Showcasing our amazing small firms</title>
           
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  WHEN the citizens of the County Palatine of Lancaster were told on November 27, 1295 to send their first elected representative to Parliament, I doubt that they ever imagined eight centuries later Parliament would be marking this “Lancashire Day” with an exhibition of some of the county’s best food and drink products (and county-made shoes).
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           <title>Column: I’m puzzled by Hague’s stance</title>
           
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  I like British Foreign Secretary William Hague. Whether I agree, or disagree with him, he usually makes his case persuasively.
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           <title>Should the well-off get freebies?</title>
           
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  I’m 66, and well-off. So here’s the question. Should people like me benefit from the winter fuel allowance, free bus and rail passes, and, when we get to age 75, free television licences as well?
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