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  • And on Wednesday night, I was taken for an after-work drink and food to the Backbencher, which is a pub / café / restaurant housed in one of the many colonial buildings there are here (as is my apartment on The Terrace).

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • And on Wednesday night, I was taken for an after-work drink and food to the Backbencher, which is a pub / café / restaurant housed in one of the many colonial buildings there are here (as is my apartment on The Terrace).

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Backbencher: I support the idea of the House passing the Senate bill and fixing the weak points through reconciliation.

    Matthew Yglesias » How Close Were We, Really? 2010

  • Backbencher Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley, describes the condition as a "cruel fiction" that should be consigned to the "dustbin of history".

    Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley: Dyslexia is a myth. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • It's half term recess, and while some MP's have gone back to their constituencies to prepare for opposition, the Backbencher sits in a bar with two Blairite refugees from No 10 compiling an A to Z of Brown's problems.

    GORDON'S PRONOUNCED DIFFICULTIES Valleys Mam 2008

  • If he were to be removed from No 10, the Backbencher and her colleagues are all convinced that Gordon continuing in politics, sitting on the backbenches, is not feasible.

    GORDON'S PRONOUNCED DIFFICULTIES Valleys Mam 2008

  • Rumours that Ming has mercilessly sacked Lord Razzall from his post as Lib Dem campaigns chief are, the Backbencher hears, completely untrue.

    Razzall skedaddles 2006

  • Today's Guardian Backbencher e-mail, sent out at 17: 06, confidently announced:

    Razzall skedaddles 2006

  • Tory friends of the Backbencher told stories of MPs'

    LEMBIT'S LAMA DRAMA Valleys Mam 2008

  • For a chance of winning it, just tell the Backbencher what colour underpants Tony was wearing when he accused Alastair Campbell of envying his body and asked how many PMs “have a body like this”.

    donuts across the ocean « raincoaster 2007

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