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The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised on behalf of the Queen by the Prime Minister and other cabinet ministers who head departments. The cabinet, including the Prime Minister, and other ministers collectively make up Her Majesty's Government. These ministers are drawn from and are responsible to Parliament, the legislative body, which is traditionally considered to be "supreme" (that is, able to legislate on any matter and not bound by decisions of its predecessors). The UK is one of the few countries in the world today that does not have a codified constitution, relying ins ...

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United Kingdom, United Kingdom - History, United Kingdom - Government and politics, United Kingdom - Subdivisions, United Kingdom - Military, United Kingdom - Geography, United Kingdom - Economy, United Kingdom - Society, United Kingdom - Demographics, United Kingdom - Culture, United Kingdom - Sport, United Kingdom - Miscellaneous topics

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Although comedy was once a significant part of American broadcast radio programming it is now mainly found in the archives of Old Time Radio enthusiasts and in internet streaming of comedy recordings. Exceptions to this are WSRN's "Audience of Two", Garrison Keillor's work on Minnesota Public Radio: "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Comedy College", and NPR's Car Talk, a comedy show thinly disguised as car advice. In Britain and Canada, however, the BBC and CBC respectively have continued making new radio comedy and drama. British radio comedy also has a home on Australia's Radio National and in Ireland there are alway ...

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Radio comedy, Radio comedy - Background and history, Radio comedy - List of radio comedies

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The five-page memorandum is said by the Mirror to be a record of the meeting between the two leaders which took place on 16 April 2004 at the height of Operation Vigilant Resolve, an assault on Fallujah by U.S. Marines and Iraqi security forces. Al Jazeera reporters were in the city providing video footage of the resistance. The day before the meeting, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld described Al Jazeera's coverage as "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable."^{See also:}

Al Jazeera bombing memo, Al Jazeera bombing memo - Details of the memo, Al Jazeera bombing memo - Official secrets and UK publication ban, Al Jazeera bombing memo - Previous U.S. bombings of Al Jazeera offices, Al Jazeera bombing memo - Footnotes

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Winners first; nominees indented British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best Comedy Entertainment Programme. Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (Granada Television, ITV1) Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions, BBC One) I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (LWT Factual, ITV1) British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best Comedy Film. The School of Rock < ...

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British Comedy Awards 2004, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Television and film, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best Comedy Entertainment Programme, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best Comedy Film, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best International Comedy TV Show, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best TV Comedy, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best TV Comedy Drama, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best New TV Comedy, British Comedy Awards 2004 - People's Choice Award, British Comedy Awards 2004 - People and performances, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best TV Comedy Actor, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best TV Comedy Actress, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best TV Comedy Entertainment Personality, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Best TV Comedy Newcomer, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Writer of the Year, British Comedy Awards 2004 - Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award

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His show Kilroy started on 24 November 1986 as Day To Day and ran up until 2004, when the programme was cancelled by the BBC after an article entitled 'We owe Arabs nothing' by Kilroy-Silk[2] was published in the Sunday Express on 4 January. The article had originally been published in April 2003 by the same paper and 'republished in error' according to Kilroy-Silk [3], although during its first incarnation the article failed to attract the same furore from the national press or provoke any (ostensible) disciplinary acti ...

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Robert Kilroy-Silk, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Education and early political career, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Kilroy and 'anti-Arab' controversy, Robert Kilroy-Silk - UK Independence Party political career, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Involvement in the European elections, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Leadership ambitions, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Leaving the party, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Veritas political career, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Independent MEP, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Publicity stunts, Robert Kilroy-Silk - Personal life

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Although primarily a newspaper journalist, Littlejohn has presented numerous radio and TV shows, and has authored or co-authored several books. Richard Littlejohn - Journalism. Littlejohn left school in 1971 aged 16, and started work as a trainee journalist in his home town of Peterborough; he worked for several local newspapers during the early 1970s. In the mid-1970s, he joined the Birmingham Evening Express ...

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Richard Littlejohn, Richard Littlejohn - Career, Richard Littlejohn - Journalism, Richard Littlejohn - Radio, Richard Littlejohn - Television, Richard Littlejohn - Books, Richard Littlejohn - Opinions, Richard Littlejohn - Controversy and criticism, Richard Littlejohn - LBC radio programme, Richard Littlejohn - The Michael Winner incident, Richard Littlejohn - The Will Self incident, Richard Littlejohn - Attitudes to homosexuality, Richard Littlejohn - Johann Hari, Richard Littlejohn - Viz Magazine

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His first job (from 1989 to 1994) on a national newspaper was writing a show business column for The Sun. He was editor of the News of the World from 1994 to 1995. Both at that paper and later at the Daily Mirror he was known for his scorn of celebrities' demands for privacy, claiming that they could not simultaneously manipulate the media to further their careers without accepting some level of intrusion into their private lives. This was in the context of claims that Diana, Princess of Wales ...

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Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan - Career in newspapers, Piers Morgan - Career in television, Piers Morgan - Piers Morgan and Ian Hislop, Piers Morgan - Books, Piers Morgan - External link

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His first period as party leader—between the 1983 and 1987 elections—was dominated by his struggle with the hard left. Although Kinnock had come from the left of the party he parted company with many of his previous allies on his appointment to the shadow cabinet. In 1981 Kinnock was alleged to have effectively scuppered Tony Benn's attempt to replace Denis Healey as Labour's deputy leader by first supporting the candidacy of the more traditionalist Tribunite John Silkin and then urging ...

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Neil Kinnock, Neil Kinnock - Career Overview, Neil Kinnock - Becomes Labour Party Leader, Neil Kinnock - Later Years as Party Leader, Neil Kinnock - European Union Commissioner, Neil Kinnock - Life peerage, Neil Kinnock - Personal Life, Neil Kinnock - Biography

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Roy Hattersley - Early life. Roy Hattersley was a strong socialist and Labour supporter from his youth, electioneering for his local MP and city councillors from 1945. His mother became a city councillor and later was Lord Mayor of Sheffield (1981). He won a scholarship to Sheffield City Grammar School and went from there to study at the University of Hull. Initially intending to read English at Leeds, he was diverted into reading economics when he ...

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Roy Hattersley, Roy Hattersley - Brief biography, Roy Hattersley - Early life, Roy Hattersley - Member of Parliament, Roy Hattersley - Journalist, Roy Hattersley - Ministerial positions, Roy Hattersley - European Common Market, Roy Hattersley - Privy Council, Roy Hattersley - Deputy Leader, Roy Hattersley - Resignation, Roy Hattersley - Published author and convicted criminal, Roy Hattersley - Sports fan, Roy Hattersley - Satirical attacks, Roy Hattersley - Partial bibliography

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Her father was a foreign correspondent for a Danish television channel, and she spent most of her youth abroad (including the USA). She studied law and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, but ended up getting into drama. She wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Cambridge Footlights, and moved via children's television into the comedy circuit. She performed at the first night of The Comedy Store in London and was once part of The Comedy Store Players ...

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Sandi Toksvig, Sandi Toksvig - Career, Sandi Toksvig - Politics, Sandi Toksvig - Personal life, Sandi Toksvig - Bibliography, Sandi Toksvig - Books for children, Sandi Toksvig - Books for adults

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In 1973 he was recruited by the BBC Current Affairs department to work on Panorama. According to those who worked with him, he was extremely nervous when starting out, but he turned out to master the medium. His greatest fame came when he presented BBC Newsnight coverage of byelections from 1980. Hanna spent the entirety of the campaign doggedly pursuing candidates to ask difficult questions. Very few candidates escaped unscathed. At Darlington in March 1983, Hanna helped to destroy the campaign of SDP candidate ...

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Vincent Hanna, Vincent Hanna - Background, Vincent Hanna - Work for the BBC, Vincent Hanna - Later career

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Everybody in top ten can be regarded as "serious" candidates, but right after top ten, there are a number of candidates that have been probably voted in more humoristic sense. Positions 11-14 are held by Position 11, Matti Nykänen - A four-time Olympic gold medalist but is later known for his ill-fated careers as a singer and a porn star. He is the person who is loved deeply by Finnish sensationalist press. Most of his scandals are caused by his aggressive behavior while drunk. Position 12, Väinö Myllyrinne - The tal ...

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Suuret suomalaiset, Suuret suomalaiset - The Winner, Suuret suomalaiset - Top Ten, Suuret suomalaiset - Advocates, Suuret suomalaiset - 11 - 100, Suuret suomalaiset - Humoristic voting and speculation on manipulated results, Suuret suomalaiset - Other Great People

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The name comes from British slang, an apparent misunderstanding of the established term "spit and image;" a person who closely resembles another person can be described as their "spitting image". Furthermore, in the early 1980s in Britain spitting was still perceived by the public as an inextricable component of the punk phenomenon. The puppets, caricaturing public figures, were designed by the cartoonists Peter Fluck and Roger Law (who sometimes spoonerized their names as 'Luck and Flaw'). They were assisted by various young caricatu ...

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Spitting Image, Spitting Image - Introduction, Spitting Image - Sketches of note, Spitting Image - Voices, Spitting Image - Performers, Spitting Image - Writers, Spitting Image - Producers, Spitting Image - Similar shows elsewhere, Spitting Image - United States, Spitting Image - Serbia and Montenegro, Spitting Image - Mexico, Spitting Image - Chile, Spitting Image - France, Spitting Image - Germany, Spitting Image - Ireland, Spitting Image - Israel, Spitting Image - Russia, Spitting Image - Portugal, Spitting Image - Spain, Spitting Image - Sweden

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Elton's self-titled second album was released in the spring of 1970 on MCA, and slowly began to climb the charts. The first single from the album, Your Song, made the US Top Ten, and the album followed path. John's first American concert took place at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, in August, recieving praise from the likes of Quincy Jones. Elton John was followed quickly with the concept album Tumbleweed Connection in October 1970. It reached the Top Ten on the Billboard 200 like its predecessor, and got heavy ai ...

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Elton John, Elton John - Early life and career, Elton John - 1970s success, Elton John - 1980s onwards, Elton John - Film work, Elton John - Musicals, Elton John - Personal life, Elton John - Musical style and voice, Elton John - Quotations, Elton John - Discography, Elton John - Band, Elton John - Current members, Elton John - Previous band members, Elton John - References and notes, Elton John - Notes, Elton John - References

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Syal won the National Student Drama Award for writing One of Us while studying English and Drama at Manchester University. She spent seven years working for the Royal Court Theatre and won the Betty Trask Award for her first book Anita and Me and the Media Personality of the Year award at the Commission for Racial Equality's annual Race in the Media awards in 2000. She was awarded the MBE in 1997. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the f ...

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Meera Syal, Meera Syal - Career, Meera Syal - Personal life, Meera Syal - Books, Meera Syal - Films, Meera Syal - Appearances, Meera Syal - Writing credits, Meera Syal - Plays, Meera Syal - Radio, Meera Syal - Television, Meera Syal - Appearances, Meera Syal - Writing credits, Meera Syal - Academic reception

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Public broadcasting in the Netherlands has been since the very beginning in the early 1920s split up into different companies. Because the Dutch society is very heterogeneous each group wanted to have its own broadcasting company. At first there was the AVRO, which discovered the medium radio and started the first broadcastings. Not much later, the Protestants started their own company, NCRV, to broadcast religious programmes. The Catholics quickly followed and started the KRO. The socialists, traditionally less religious, also created a bro ...

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Publieke Omroep, Publieke Omroep - History, Publieke Omroep - Other Dutch TV channels

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Aaronovitch is the son of the late economist and Communist Sam Aaronovitch, and brother of the actor Owen Aaronovitch and scriptwriter Ben Aaronovitch. His father was Jewish though his mother wasn't, and he was raised in a secular household. (This only became an issue in his 40s, when he was the victim of anti-Semitic slurs, attacking a Judaism he had never espoused). He attended Gospel Oak Primary School until 1965, Holloway County Comprehe ...

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David Aaronovitch, David Aaronovitch - Early life, David Aaronovitch - Career in journalism, David Aaronovitch - Norman Johnson, David Aaronovitch - Accusations of Islamophobia, David Aaronovitch - Works, David Aaronovitch - External link

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Baker began his radio career on BBC GLR in 1989, presenting Weekend Breakfast from 6-9am on Saturdays & Sundays. His show was followed by Chris Evans on Saturday & Chris Morris on Sundays. In 1990, Baker joined the newly launched BBC Radio 5, presenting Sportscall. From October 1991 to October 1992 he presented 606 and from February 1992 until October 1993, he presented Morning Edition from 6.30-9am every weekday morning. This was Baker's heyday - his Morning Edition still stands out in the memory of his fans as one of the funniest and most innovative ...

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Danny Baker, Danny Baker - Early Days as a Rock Journalist, Danny Baker - Radio Career, Danny Baker - Television & Writing Career

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In the wake of the General Election, Kennedy's leadership came under increased criticism from those who felt that the Liberal Democrats could have surged forward at a time when, arguably, the Official Opposition, the Conservative Party, were in a relatively weak position. Many pointed the finger of blame at Kennedy for failing to widen the Party's appeal while others, like the former Deputy Chairman of the Federal Liberal Democrat Party, Donnachadh McCarthy, resigned from the Party citing the party's shift to the right of the political spect ...

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Charles Kennedy, Charles Kennedy - Early life, Charles Kennedy - Political career, Charles Kennedy - Initial period as party leader, Charles Kennedy - 2005 general election, Charles Kennedy - Developments since the election, Charles Kennedy - Leadership contest, Charles Kennedy - Resignation, Charles Kennedy - Personal life, Charles Kennedy - Bibliography

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List of Finns - Opera. Aino Ackté – soprano Monica Groop – mezzosoprano Jorma Hynninen – baritone Soile Isokoski – soprano Karita Mattila – soprano Jaakko Ryhänen – bass Matti Salminen – bass Martti Talvela – bass List of Finns - Classical. Paavo Berglund – conductor Linda Brava – violinist Mikko Frank – conductor Ralf Gothoni – pianist

He started in broadcasting as a freelance in radio, broadcasting on BBC Radio Brighton. He quickly joined national BBC radio in London, originally specialising in commentating on boxing, and went on to anchor Sports Report on BBC Radio 2. He later moved to television, presenting Grandstand and Match of the Day on the BBC for many years, and also fronted BBC coverage of Wimbledon, the Football World Cup and the Olympic Games. Lynam made a brief return to BBC Radio 2 in 1998, presenting the 5-7pm Drivetime show on Fridays only. Johnnie Walker, had started pres ...

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Des Lynam, Des Lynam - Career, Des Lynam - Trivia, Des Lynam - External link

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