Category: Politics
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The case for Screaming Lord Sutch
Can any other British politician match his record of policy delivery?
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In search of “Wandering hands”
Much has changed in the last forty years, but the jocular tone of a story concerning sexual abuse – one of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet ministers making sudden lunges at women in his office – is jarring.
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Vote early, vote twice
Whereas A, I sensed, wanted to expand, to run a large department. To build an empire, to be The Man.
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“Can’t win here!”: a foot soldier for the Liberal Democrats
Before the first leaflet went through the door a questionable assertion leapt out at me.
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Please don’t
Please don’t wave the Union Flag around as if you own it, or as if you speak for everyone in the UK. It is the flag of a country whose people have many different opinions.
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Gaukey and Me
At this point the waiter managed to spill a decent quantity of coffee into my lap. Fortunately it wasn’t scalding, but I still wonder whether this was in response to a prearranged signal.
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