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The myth of the £104,000 housing benefit claimants
“You must recognise that we inherited a housing benefit system in London that was completely out of control; some families were getting as much as £104,000 a year,” David Cameron told the left wing Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn…
By Andy McSmith | Eagle Eye, McSmith | Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 4:17 pm
A Tory dilemma: should they try to unseat Jeremy Browne?
One of Grant Shapps’s dilemmas as he draws up his election plans is whether to target Taunton Deane.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 12:47 pm
What is the point of replacing Trident? Perhaps we’ll find out tomorrow
What is the point of spending a minimum of £25billions renewing the Trident missile system? Its initial purpose was to deter the Warsaw Pact armies from invading Britain.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 10:34 am
Farewell, Tatler Alan
It has been confirmed that @TatlerAlan is dead, killed in workplace accident: he was caught in the revolving door at Vogue House
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 3:32 pm
Charity and an Old Etonian
Jeremy Lefroy, Tory MP for Stafford, has suggested a way to increase the government’s tax base in these austere times.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 2:51 pm
The best Great Train Robbery story ever
The Great Train Robbery still casts a kind of lurid fascination like no other robbery committed on British soil.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith, Notebook | Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 11:23 am
Nick Griffin uninvited by the Oxford Union
The Oxford Union looked like it was courting trouble by inviting Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, to speak in a debate about being raised by gay parents.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Monday, 14 January 2013 at 4:39 pm
Why Theresa May won’t need to rush to the royal birth
The news that Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, the mother to be formerly known as Kate Middleton, will give birth in July to a child fated to live his or her entire life in the glare of publicity seems like a good pretext for reprinting this excerpt from The Evening Independent (no relation) of 10 November 1948.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Monday, 14 January 2013 at 4:29 pm
New Labour and The Sun – a “kissy-kissy celebration
Ben Stoneham, a recently ennobled Liberal Democrat activist, had a lively anecdote to throw into Lords debate on the Leveson report. “A shocking experience for me was to attend the retirement party in 2003 of the editor of the Sun, David Yelland,” he said. “In effect, it was the crowning party for Rebekah Brooks. Pretty [...]
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Monday, 14 January 2013 at 3:28 pm
Someone has found a new term to describe Nick Clegg – and it’s not an insult
Nick Clegg’s appearance yesterday morning on a radio programme with the title ‘Call Nick Clegg’ rather invited this question – “What can you call Nick Clegg, when he has already been called every insulting epithet in the English language?” Amazingly, Reform, a right wing think tank, has come up with something new. Today, they named [...]
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Friday, 11 January 2013 at 5:09 pm
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