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Ending sex slavery is not a Home Office target
Let's hope Home Secretary Jacqui Smith reads the report in today's Times about sex slavery in Cambridgeshire. Women are said to be traded in auctions for between £500 and £3,000. They are then virtual prisoners in rented houses. An investigation by The Times...
Is Gordon Brown now a lady’s man?
First he wows Lady Thatcher, then make Mariella Frostrup come over "all unncessary". How many more women can Gordon Brown woo in the run up to the increasingly imminent election? I wonder if he has been following advice given in The Statesman which pointed out that...
Our missed IT election opportunities
I have just heard on the radio that Labour is appointing key staff for campaigning logistics and media relations - to start next Monday - gearing up for an autumn general election. Whatever the outcome, I am disappointed that we did not use this last year to further...
Nadine and hospital cleanliness
Nadine Dorries used to be a nurse, so David Cameron should sit up and listen when she offers him expert advice about cleaning hospital wards. She firmly believes uniforms should be laundered on site, that this would help wipe out infections. What she says makes good...
The missing – Madeleine McCann and Denise Pipitone
The young girl being carried on the back of a traditionally dressed Moroccan woman in North Africa does look remarkably like Madeleine McCann. But parents of missing children are used to having their hopes raised - and dashed. It's so difficult to be sure from...
Iain’s list of top Conservative blogs
This is Iain's list of top Conservative blogs compiled by a panel of 12 right wing bloggers. He wonders whether my "softer, more personal approach" was not to their liking, which is why they placed me at 19. And I am thrilled to be included in the top ten on the main...
Let’s campaign for the Red Arrows
Were you shocked, like me, to learn that the Red Arrows have been banned from performing at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics - because they are too British! If so, then please sign the following 10 Downing Street protest petition to try and get this...
Blogging and women
This is my article about women and blogging which I contributed for Iain Dale's 2007 Guide to Political Blogging, which will be published this week. I’ve been writing my blog for 18 months and I have never had so much fun. I have also discovered that it is not for...
Saudi women petition for right to drive
Saudi women are the only women in the world who are not allowed to drive as a result of an extremely strict interpretation of Islamic law. Instead, wealthy women hire live-in chauffeurs, while poor women must rely on male relatives for transportation. Now a women's...