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Jaspar Gerard on the Lord Rennard affair
Lib Dems Jaspar Geard and Tony Greaves keep digging…
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Monday, 25 February 2013 at 4:04 pm
Call a man fat, but don’t call a woman thin.
An interesting but little known fact that emerged from a minor controversy in Parliament this week is that there exists an All-party Parliamentary Group on Body Image. This is a properly registered group of 20 MPs, eight Tories, two Lib Dems, and ten Labour, 14 women and six men, whose purpose is “to conduct an [...]
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Friday, 15 February 2013 at 3:55 pm
Is David Jones’s brain a safe environment for intelligent thought?
The Welsh Secretary, David Jones, one of only two Cabinet ministers to oppose gay marriage, made a comment on local television which did not simply reek of prejudice but, taken at face value, was downright ignorant.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Friday, 15 February 2013 at 3:07 pm
The pretty well pointless Plantagenet petitions keep coming
The argument over where to bury Richard III rumbles on. There are no fewer than 14 petitions on the Downing Street website put there by people with strong views on where and how the last Plantagenet king should be put to rest.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Friday, 15 February 2013 at 11:26 am
James Purnell is George Osborne’s adviser’s ex
The BBC’s new Director of Strategy once stepped out with Thea Rogers
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 5:02 pm
Jeanette Winterson jumps the gun
The author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit has proposed marriage on Twitter to partner Susie Orbach
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 3:40 pm
Local Tories rally to Aidan Burley, of the Nazi-themed stag party
The Cannock Chase MP has been chosen to run again as a Conservative candidate in 2015
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 2:31 pm
One Dave Cameron portrait is worth over 100,000 Ed Mili photos
Ed Miliband’s best line at Prime Minister’s Questions was to mock David Cameron over the fact that his picture was auctioned at a Tory party for £100,000, after which Cameron claimed that the Tories are “no longer the party of privilege.”
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Wednesday, 13 February 2013 at 3:39 pm
Is Cameron still relaxed about publishing his tax returns?
“The Prime Minister is relaxed about the idea of the tax returns of senior Cabinet Ministers being published, but wants the opportunity to explore how this might work,” someone authorised to speak on David Cameron’s behalf said in April 2012.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Wednesday, 13 February 2013 at 2:41 pm
Owen Paterson has his fish finger on the pulse, and other stories
Tomorrow’s Independent Diary
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 4:41 pm
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