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Cherie’s words may win the day
Prime Ministers' wives should seemingly be seen and not heard - that may have been a requisite in days gone, but Cherie's free-speaking has broken the mould, not once, but twice. Nobody believe she did not mean those words when she accused Gordon Brown of lying, she's...
Plans to oust St George as England’s saint
A campaign has been launched today to oust St George as England's patron saint and replace him with St Edmund, who was the country's original saint before he was toppled. It is strongly felt St Edmund should be reinstated and a petition is being jointly...
Conservative MEPs take on Spanish fishing fleet
Conservative MEPs led by the erudite Struan Stevenson will take on the might of the Spanish fishing fleet this week to ban the cruel practice of removing fins from the Mediterranean blue shark. The World Conservation Council have announced that blue sharks are now an...
Charles Clarke and those "ill-advised" words
Did he mean it, or didn't he? And did the presence of Ed Balls induce sacked Home Secretary Charles Clarke into admitting he was wrong about saying those nasty things about Gordon Brown. Clarke effectively conceded that his savage personal attack on the Chancellor had...
Sam Mendes film exploiting the homeless
I'm sure award winning producer Sam Mendes has no idea that homeless people recruited as extras for his latest film are being way paid below the going rate. The film makers probably think that £50 a day is fortune for these down and outs, compared to the basic rate...
The best kiss of all
Well it is almost as good as the real thing, Rodin's stunningly erotic statue of The Kiss, now on show at The Royal Academy of Arts. It seems fitting to give it a plug today, my wedding anniversary. I'm not sure whether my husband Stephen would have said "I do" if he...
Why Bob Russell MP threw a childish sulk
You would imagine an MP would want to share a drink with his local political journalist at their annual party conference, keep him sweet, particularly one as astute and as fair as Graham Dines, from the East Anglian Daily Times. Not so Bob Russell, (pic left) the Lib...
Charging to chat with Ministers – is this the thin edge of the wedge?
Businesses are seemingly coughing up thousands of pounds to chat with Ministers at next week's Labour Party conference. Had it been Conservatives, we would have been accused of sleaze and greed. If our leading politicians have their fingers on the pulse, surely they...
A deafened Blair and the ruination of our NHS
Blair is certain to face a stormy week in Manchester where I hope Unison and others will continue to heckle and demonstrate fiercely in protest at the destruction of our NHS. Of course, it will all fall on deaf ears, Blair only wants to hear what he wants to hear. Did...