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With a suicide bomber.

In other news, Cameron wants parliament to dissolve and a new general election because 'the people demand change'. Which is all well and good, but for heaven's sake, can't we know what the #### this change is meant to be? Simply changing seats a la musical chairs is not change for the better but change for the sake of change. Far better in my opinion is to hold off having an election now and put an all party committee together to change the things that are wrong with the system. As if electing the tories is magically going to change the things for the better. Politicians are really getting on my nerves.

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Meanwhile, in Paris:

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Gunmen ambush police in Paris estate

Reinforcements called in to La Courneuve after gang fires on officers with assault rifle

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And, just to show what side of the ideological divide the Graniad resides, a little piece about the BNP:

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...They're wrong, obviously. None of these qualities has anything whatsoever to do with being British, but everything to do with ugly nationalist politics. And ugly nationalist politics are popular all over the world. Just like Pringles. Every country has its own tiny enclave of frightened, disenfranchised, misguided souls clinging to their national flag, claiming they're the REAL patriots, saying everyone's out to get them. It's an international weakness. For the BNP to claim to be more British than the other British parties is as nonsensical as your dad suddenly claiming to have invented the beard...