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		<title>David Cameron&#8217;s &#8220;hairbrush moment&#8221; is 3rd most viewed YouTube video</title>
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THANKS FOR ALL THE RE-TWEETS. FOLLOW @PSBOOK FOR MORE ELECTION FUN!
With more than 39,000 45,000 views, David Cameron&#8217;s airbrush hairbrush moment posted by Scrapbook on Tuesday is the 3rd most viewed clip on YouTube. And that&#8217;s internationally &#8211; not just in Europe or the UK.

Notwithstanding the fact Scrapbook wouldn&#8217;t want his hair blowing all over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook to sue Daily Mail over &#8220;child grooming&#8221; story</title>
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&#8220;Even after 15 years in child protection, I was shocked by what I encountered when I spent just five minutes on Facebook posing as a 14-year-old girl. Within 90 seconds, a middle-aged man wanted to perform a sex act in front of me.
I was deluged by strangers asking stomach-churning questions about my sexual experience. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/03/facebook-to-sue-daily-mail-over-child-grooming-story/</link>
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		<title>Because he&#8217;s worth it? David Cameron uses Sky News camera lens to style his hair</title>
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UPDATE 10 MARCH With more than 10,000 views in one day, this little video has gone viral!
UPDATE 11 MARCH Dave&#8217;s &#8220;hairbrush moment&#8221; is now the 3rd most viewed YouTube video in the world and is due to crack 40,000 views barrier later today.
Living up to an airbrushed version of yourself must be hard going. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/03/because-hes-worth-it-david-cameron-uses-sky-news-camera-lens-to-style-his-hair/</link>
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		<title>Times/Populus poll puts Labour and Tories &#8220;neck and neck&#8221; in crucial marginal seats</title>
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A Populus survey for The Times has Labour level pegging with the Tories in the crucial seats that will decide the next election.

The Times&#8217; Peter Riddel writes: &#8220;The poll suggests that recent talk of a Tory “wobble” has affected voters’ expectations&#8221; with &#8220;a swing of about 6.7 per cent to the Tories from Labour since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/03/populus-puts-labour-and-tories-neck-and-neck-in-crucial-marginal-seats/</link>
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		<title>International Women&#8217;s Day, Indian Parliament style!</title>
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Alongside the welcome column inches (and LabourList guest editors) which have accompanied this 102nd International Women&#8217;s Day, it&#8217;s great to see some real, tangible strides forward in the cause of gender equality:
A third of seats in India’s Parliament are to be reserved for women under a law to be put before the legislature today — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norman Tebbit says vote for UKIP (again)</title>
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Tory curmudgeon Norman Tebbit has told the Politics Show that Conservative activists should be free to campaign against speaker John Bercow in Buckhingham. Numerous opponents are expected to join the fray despite convention that the speaker stands as an independent candidate unopposed by other parties. Tebbit has already rankled Tory high command with his coded endorsement for UKIP in the 2009 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/03/norman-tebbit-says-vote-for-ukip-again/</link>
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		<title>Brave Sir Donal ran away!</title>
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Ladies and gentlemen, Donal Blaney has left the building! The credentials of the UK&#8217;s #11 Conservative blogger as a freedom-to-offend commentator in the Rush Limbaugh mould were left in tatters yesterday after he pulled his blog at the behest of CCHQ. Visitors craving for the stylings of this p*** poor Richard Littlejohn are now greeted with the following:

So, why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/03/brave-sir-donal-ran-away/</link>
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		<title>Macrory meltdown: Tory head of press proves David Cameron right with bizarre Twitter tirade</title>
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The Labour Party has inflicted some some pretty impressive wounds on itself over the last three years but it is clear now that these are eclipsed by the Ashcroft saga. If Scrapbook was a Conservative activist he would be spitting feathers and it seems one of their number finally lost patience this week, causing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/03/macrory-meltdown-tory-head-of-press-proves-david-cameron-right-with-bizarre-twitter-tirade/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;This is like watching a lion rape a sheep&#8221;: Malcolm Tucker et al on Mark Thompson&#8217;s BBC 6 Music interview</title>
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Malcolm and company are not impressed as the BBC director general Mark Thompson twists in the wind on Newsnight:

Save BBC 6 Music!

Complain via Auntie&#8217;s consultation: srconsultation@bbc.co.uk
Join the Facebook group (and invite your friends)
Write to your MP

Hat-tip: Media Monkey*
*Take note, Grauniad. Bloggers credit each other, capiche?

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		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/03/this-is-like-watching-a-lion-rape-a-sheep-malcolm-tucker-et-al-on-mark-thompsons-bbc-6-music-interview/</link>
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		<title>Carol Vorderman metamorphosises into Sarah Palin on BBC Question Time</title>
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Numerous tweeters had noted the similarity between the shrill, shallow, populist Carol Vorderman and the shrill, shallow, populist Sarah Palin before a member of the audience did so with some style, adding that that Boris Johnson wasn&#8217;t the only Tory on the panel.
Dimbleby had it about right:
&#8220;This programme is an hour &#8230; it felt like more to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/03/carol-vorderman-metamorphasises-into-sarah-palin-on-bbc-question-time/</link>
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