Showing posts with label Harriet Harman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harriet Harman. Show all posts
Monday, June 20, 2022

John Bodkin Adams: The Harold Shipman of the 1950s

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With the Conservative candidate in the Wakefield by-election having drawn an analogy between the party's previous MP for the seat and Dr...
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Friday, December 07, 2018

The well-worn path from Liberty to being a Labour hack

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When I was a teenager and had already decided I was a Liberal, two of the big names in civil liberties campaigning were Patricia Hewitt an...
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Sunday, April 08, 2018

Did Kemi Badenoch hack Harriet Harman's website?

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Embed from Getty Images From the Mail on Sunday today: A Tory MP tipped as a future Prime Minister has admitted breaking the law by hac...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Harriet Harman, Theresa May and John Bodkin Adams

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Embed from Getty Images Remember this post from June? Though he was acquitted of murder at the Old Bailey, there seems little doubt that...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Labour's confusion over its own leadership contest

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View image | gettyimages.com Here is Harriet Harman reported by BBC News today: Harriet Harman has said 3,000 alleged "ch...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Harriet Harman, the NCCL and PIE

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People’s incredulity that Harriet Harman might have something to explain or apologise for over relations between the National Council for ...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

The Woolas Affair: Where is Ed Miliband?

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Harriet Harman is coming under attack from Labour backbenchers because Phil Woolas was suspended from the party following the election cour...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Should Harriet Harman be prosecuted for her remarks about Danny Alexander?

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You will have heard that today Harriet Harman referred to Danny Alexander as a "ginger rodent" in a speech to a Labour conference...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Brokeback Coalition jokes are so gay

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David Davis has been overheard making jokes about Clegg and Cameron at the Boot & Flogger wine bar in South London. (This is a venue whe...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

John Bercow set to defeat the parliamentary mujahideen

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Writing on the Guardian website (and in tomorrow's paper), Patrick Wintour predicts that John Bercow will be re-elected as speaker of t...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

What happens if there is a hung parliament?

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Martin Kettle has an interesting piece in today's Guardian looking at what might happen after a hung parliament: The idea canvassed by ...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Isn't the British constitution great?

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Two short quotations from reports that went up on the Guardian website this afternoon. On Heathrow : Hoon insisted that a vote was not neede...
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Monday, December 01, 2008

Mr Speaker Martin's last chance

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The current Speaker has once last chance not to go down in history as one of the most partisan and discredited figures to occupy the role. I...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Harriet Harman breaks ranks on Damian Green arrest

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The leader of the house has become the first cabinet minister to distance herself from the arrest of the Tory immigration spokesman. The BBC...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Charles Clarke condemns Just William politics

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Charles Clarke has an aricle on the New Statesman website - I assume it will be in Friday's magazine. If I read it correctly, a sho...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

Free Schools and the school-leaving age

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My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News . A lot of Balls Nick Clegg is right, of course. Allowing parents and communit...
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Friday, July 13, 2007

A ballroom dancer or snooker professional

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Today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . Identity crisis On Monday a woman Home Secretary took questions for the first t...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007

Lord Bonkers on the end of Blair and much else

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Liberator 319 is now with subscribers - at least mine arrived this morning - so it is time to post the latest diary from Rutland's most ...
Friday, June 29, 2007

"Just sign here, Quentin"

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Today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . I was afraid that by the time it appeared someone would have broken ranks and a...
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Identity cards: All your fears were justified

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Harriet Harman has rightly angered a lot of people by suggesting that the National Identity Register could be used to draw up the electoral ...