May 18
OPINION Just three weeks after Labour lost a Cabinet member – discredited and loathed in equal measure – Pervez, leader of the council, gives the man everyone in the City, except of course, the Labour Party, say should resigned from the council completely – a vice chairmanship of a committee. I am, of course, talking …
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May 18
Remember the name Stephanie Bottrill; in life she was obscure; in death she earned a bitter sort of fame. When she threw herself in front of a lorry on the M6 Mrs Bottril became the first casualty of the austerity policies pushed by the coalition government since 2010. Her suicide was, it has emerged, motivated …
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Apr 28
This week the Royal Air Force began flying unmanned drone missions from its base in Waddington Lincolnshire. Previously the ten Reaper drones were flown by RAF personnel from a USAF base in Creech Nevada, the aircraft are used for surveillance missions but have the capability to attack targets on the ground if required. Speaking on …
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Apr 08
Open mouth, insert foot; end up looking like a total idiot. This week must have felt like old times for Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, a reminder of those halcyon days when he led the Conservative party up a cul-de-sac of political irrelevance. Asked by an out of work market trader ringing in …
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Apr 02
David Milliband is to leave British politics because he fears being a ‘distraction’ damaging the chances of his brother winning the next election. Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday of last week he said he felt a ‘sense of sadness’ at leaving Westminster and remained ‘passionate’ about the Labour Party, but felt he had had …
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Mar 24
Many have contacted me this week – some hardly able to speak for laughing – after reading (in full) the secretary of Stoke South Constituency Labour Party’s “confidential” report highlighting the “confidential” nature of their “confidential” meetings and their written reports.
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Mar 23
The meeting following the budget council was always going to be less of a carnival than the budget council, in much the same way that Boxing Day is always an anticlimax compared to Christmas Day. Proceedings began as usual with the charming anachronism of prayers, this time round a rather downbeat Chaplin offering up a …
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