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[Q]: 'What happens on tour stays on tour': how a week on a young Tory campaign bus might look. As news emerges that the Conservative party chairman, Grant Shapps, has jokingly promised young volunteers that the most active among them might get to go on holiday to Ibiza with Samantha and David Cameron , we imagine what a week on the road with the Road Trip 2015 team might look like . "What happens on tour stays on tour," says one young volunteer, handing out the free, blue-coloured contraceptives as the group pass Milton Keynes , "but don't let the guys at the back of the coach near these." At the back are the socially conservative gang . One has taken his"It's not Adam & Steve" commemorative pin badge off and is using it to pierce the condoms . The rest of the coach has just finished playing"identify the Ayn Rand quote" , and near the front of the bus the libertarians are swapping pill bottles . "This is bat country," one of them mutters , while another reads a book on the gold standard . After a day's leafleting in North Warwickshire, the team heads to the nearest Holiday Inn where a curry is being prepared . It has taken two days for "Banter Bus" to emerge as the name of the team vehicle , edging out Winning Wagon and Chat Coach . "How to spot a Labour voter" is the topic of conversation , and it is generally agreed that they are the ones who fly-tip in their own front gardens . Within minutes of the party chairman telling the audience that the most successful campaigners may get to throw shapes with Sam Cam in Ibiza, groups have split off into the corners of the room to form campaign teams . A mixture of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Taylor Swift is encouraging young attendees to adjust their pocket squares and hit the dance floor . The team encounter a group of Labour supporters who - as Central Office training suggested- broke into tears and fled when shown the standard-issue photograph of Ed Miliband standing in a puddle . Volunteers carry the auto- tuned Nick Clegg apology for similar purposes , but headquarters has yet to devise a Ukip strategy . Later in the afternoon there is a brief tangle with the media as two young men brawl over the correct pronunciation of "Boadicea" . Local press are quick to the scene, and get shots of the men before they've been encouraged to remove their rosettes and tie pins . Insiders whisper that it's really an argument about whose dance card was marked last night . "Oxbridge people get it," says one young man as he leans over the table of a group of women enjoying their fourth curry dinner of the trip . This is the first floor restaurant of a Hilton Doubletree, with all the ambience of a young offenders' institution . The women have taken to dining in a protective circle with their handbags on the backs of their chairs, reminiscent of the Roman Legion's "testudo" or "tortoise" formation . A second man leans in to say,"Really, most people will agree that it's actually 'Doxbridge'." Later that night there are unconfirmed reports that the man who invented the "Doxbridge" portmanteau to include his alma mater of Durham has been shivved with a plastic Liam Fox doll and has left the trip . "We're all in this together," one volunteer cheerfully tells the receptionist as the Banter Bus makes an unexpected stop at a sexual health clinic . The volunteers pile off and spend the morning getting tested, only for a red-faced doctor to explain that their symptoms (flatulence, lethargy) are the result of too much curry, and that since only two of them have been sexually active in the past month, this has been a complete waste of NHS time and money . "We love the NHS," a group leader protests , as the others try very hard to look like they're one of the two . For the rest of the day everything is described as "sound" , and after six hours of delivering leaflets in the rain, the team opt for KFC and vodka shots . The team are cold . Not only was the heating broken in the village hall they slept in last night, but the windows of the bus have all had to be kept open . The driver has pointed to a European directive safeguarding his working conditions , which has forced the team to crack the sunroof . By lunchtime, the cold and the EU directive has unified two groups who previously had not shared three words with each other , as the socially conservative volunteers and the libertarians demand the coach be stopped outside a Ukip field headquarters for them to defect . As one of the libertarians mutters "sound" at the sight of the Ukip flag, a Team 2015 staffer screams," You can't say that, that's our word", and has a cry . In a recount of the votes minus the defectors, the vehicle has reverted to Chat Coach , and the group are arguing whether David Davis or Theresa May would survive longest on a desert island before someone lets slip that they know how to buy Twitter followers . Within a few minutes the group are all upping their social media presence . That evening the Chat Coach stops for the final time , and the revellers enjoy an Ibiza-themed beer and curry night followed by Ibiza-themed laser quest . One volunteer overhears Samantha Cameron's assistant screaming at Shapps over the phone, stating in no uncertain terms that Samantha would rather be trapped in a steam room with the two Eds than go on holiday with Team 2015, and that he could stick his competition . The volunteer tweets excitedly to his 30,000 followers , only to remember that none of them are real . What happens on tour really does stay on tour .
[A]: we imagine what a week on the road with the Road Trip 2015 team might look like


[Q]: The dawn of Kim Jong-un's rule. It has been a few years since the sudden death of the Sun of the Nation, Marshal Kim Jong-il which made his third son, Kim Jong-un, then in his late 20s, the supreme leader of North Korea . Three years is the length of the traditional mourning period that Koreans are supposed to observe after the death of their father or sovereign . Thus ,  now is the time to make some observations about Kim's North Korea . What has remained the same, and what has changed since December 2011? The dawn of Kim's rule was marked by intense purges of his father's top dignitaries . In December 2011, during his father's funeral, Kim walked next to his father's hearse in the company of three top generals and four top civilian officials . Three years on, none of these people have their jobs : At least one of them was executed , while all but one have disappeared without a trace . Kim's decision to arrest and execute Chang Song-taek, his aunt's husband, long the "grey eminence" of Pyongyang politics, was a dramatic signal to the elite . The sorry fate of Chang was meant to show that nobody is immune from the wrath of the supreme leader . These purges were obviously necessary to start changing the country , since Kim's policies will be very different from those of his father and grandfather . So far, the most important changes can be seen in the field of economic management . From late 2012, the North Korean government began to implement reforms which are remarkably similar to what China did in the early days of Deng Xiaoping, around 1980 . Farmers, who were hitherto government employees with a fixed salary, are now given a certain percentage of the harvest, and have predictably started to feel motivated . As a result, the food situation has improved markedly . In industry, a slow-motion switch from a Leninist, centrally planned economy to markets has been initiated as well . The unofficial private economy, far more advanced in North Korea than most imagine, is now quietly encouraged . There is no sign of relaxation in the political sphere, however . Kim has launched a massive crackdown on illegal border movements, effectively closing North Korea's border with China  - which had remained porous for decades . He has also done much to root out the penchant that many North Koreans have recently developed for smuggled foreign TV shows, especially South Korean soap operas and films . Such concerns are not merely motivated by paranoia, regardless of what the international media says . The supreme leader knows that his position is precarious, and that tightening the screws of social control and surveillance may help him prolong his rule . North Korea under Kim remains as stubborn in its nuclear ambitions as it was under his father . Having seen the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the popular rebellion against Libya's Gaddafi that was indirectly assisted by western might, North Korean decision-makers have every reason to want to continue to advance their nuclear weapons potential . At the same time ,  there has also been a truly unprecedented crisis in Sino- North Korean relations . In the last years of Kim Jong-il, China was North Korea's major sponsor and trade partner . Now things are different . The Chinese and North Korean media (strictly controlled by the government in both countries) have exchanged thinly veiled verbal attacks , while the Chinese government has frozen all Beijing-sponsored infrastructure projects in North Korea - including, for example, a new bridge over the Yalu River . The North Korean government under Kim has shown hitherto unprecedented interest in foreign investment, as long as this investment comes from sources other than China . At present, the young marshal has pinned his hopes on Russia - currently itself on a collision course with the West . North Korean leaders obviously believe that Russia under Vladimir Putin will behave like the Soviet Union once did and shower North Korea with aid grants as a reward for Pyongyang's militant anti-Americanism . Such hopes are misplaced , but it will take some time before Pyongyang's decision-makers realise the sad truth . There is little doubt that Kim wants to be popular and loved by his people, and perhaps sincerely cares about the wellbeing of the North Korean populace , though he might have rather eccentric ideas on what constitutes such wellbeing . Under his watch, the North Korean government has spent a significant part of its meagre resources on building all kinds of entertainment facilities, including an elite ski resort, a number of water parks and even a dolphinarium . Kim's North Korea is increasingly a place quite different from the North Korea of his father . It is moving towards a more efficient economy, but also towards more internal repression . It is more prone to erratic changes in domestic policy and more eccentric in many regards . But ,  of course , for the foreseeable future it is going to remain a nuclear and authoritarian regime, run by the Kim family and a small hereditary elite : This is not negotiable, irrespectively of what the outside world thinks and does .
[A]: What has remained the same, and what has changed since December 2011? It has been a few years since the sudden death of the Sun of the Nation, Marshal Kim Jong-il which made his third son, Kim Jong-un, then in his late 20s, the supreme leader of North Korea


[Q]: Chaplain punished for sharing his faith in suicide prevention class. An Army chaplain was punished for discussing matters of faith and quoting from the Bible during a suicide prevention training session with the 5th Ranger Training Battalion -- leading to outrage from religious liberty groups and a Georgia congressman . Chaplain Joseph Lawhorn was issued a Letter of Concern that accused him of advocating for Christianity and "using Christian scripture and solutions" during a Nov  20th training session held at the University of North Georgia . "You provided a two-sided handout that listed Army resources on one side and a biblical approach to handling depression on the other side," Col  David Fivecoat, the commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Ft  Benning, Georgia, wrote in the letter to the chaplain . "This made it impossible for those in attendance to receive the resource information without also receiving the biblical information." The Christian chaplain was warned to be "careful to avoid any perception you are advocating one system of beliefs over another." However ,  attorneys for the chaplain, along with religious advocacy groups, say his comments are covered by the "right of conscience clause" that was passed in last year's National Defense Authorization Act, section 533 . CLICK HERE TO JOIN TODD ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSERVATIVE CONVERSATION! Chaplain Lawhorn was ordered to appear in the colonel's office on Thanksgiving Day where he was personally handed the Letter of Concern . Based on Col  Fivecoat's version of events -- you would've thought Chaplain Lawhorn had turned the suicide prevention workshop into a Billy Graham Crusade . However ,  that's not what happened . During the course of conducting the training session , Ron Crews, the endorsing agent for military chaplains for Grace Churches International, explained, the chaplain discussed his own struggles with depression and the methods and techniques he personally used to combat depression . He said the chaplain did provide a handout with religious resources -- but he also provided a handout with non-religious resources . "The chaplain did nothing wrong," said Crews . "At no time did he say his was the only or even the preferred way of dealing with depression. And at no time did he deny the validity of any other method." Lawhorn is one of the few Army chaplains to wear the Ranger Tab and Crews said it was through that identification that he shared his story about depression . "His story involves his faith journey," Crews said . "He was simply being a great Army chaplain - in ministering to his troops and providing first hand how he has dealt with depression in the past . That's what chaplains do. They bare their souls for their soldiers in order to help them with crises they may be going through." However ,  someone in the training session complained to the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers . That complaint led to a story on the Huffington Post . Michael Berry, an attorney with Liberty Institute, a law firm that handles religious liberty cases, is representing the chaplain . He said the person who filed the complained "exploited" the chaplain's "vulnerability." "It took a great amount of courage for Chaplain Lawhorn to discuss his own personal battle with depression," Berry said . "At no time did he consider himself to be in a 'preacher' role." Berry called on the Army to rescind the Letter of Concern-- calling it a violation of the chaplain's constitutional rights . "Not only is it lawful for a chaplain to talk about matters of faith and spirituality and religion in a suicide prevention training class- but the Army policy encourages discussion of matters of faith and spiritual wellness," Berry told me . "The fact that one person in the class was offended changes nothing." Congressman Doug Collins, a Republican lawmaker from Georgia, whose district includes the area where the training session took place, fired off a letter to Col  Fivecoat expressing his concerns in the matter . "I find it counterintuitive to have someone lead a suicide prevention course but prohibit them from providing their personal testimony," Collins wrote . He cited the Army's Equal Opportunity policy and how it was set up to protect the personal beliefs of military personnel . "I fear Chaplain Lawhorn's freedom of expression was improperly singled out," he wrote . Liberty Institute tells me the Army will allow me to speak with the chaplain -- but not right now . And Col  Fivecoat sent me an email telling me that he would not be able to comment at this point . If I'm reading between the lines -- that Letter of Concern comes pretty close to accusing the chaplain of proselytizing . Crews agrees with my assessment . "The bottom line is -- that is exactly what they are trying to accuse him of-- when nothing could be further from the truth," Crews told me . "The military leadership needs to commend Chaplain Lawhorn, not condemn him." Berry said Americans should be shocked and outraged over Chaplain Lawhorn's punishment . "His job is to save lives-- and he's being punished for trying to do his job," Berry said . "He's doing everything he can to save them- and yet now they're trying to say - the way you're doing it offends me." I find it both repulsive and heartbreaking to know that we have a military that frowns upon a chaplain using a Bible to save a soldier's life .
[A]:
An Army chaplain was punished for discussing matters of faith and quoting from the Bible during a suicide prevention training session with the 5th Ranger Training Battalion -- leading to outrage from religious liberty groups and a Georgia congressman