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Chris Bryant: Bradford shows that despite Cameron's failings, Labour still has a mountain to climb
31 March 2012 12:00 AM
A Political Life
Chris Bryant: Though the Queen brought her trumpets and beefeaters, the MPs didn't play their part
24 March 2012 12:00 AM
I suppose the Queen's Diamond Jubilee address to both Houses was a grand occasion. There were beefeaters, trumpeters, 20 or so men seemingly dressed up as the Duke of Wellington, officials from the Royal Household carrying white staves (or billiard cues), a man with a name that isn't pronounced as it's spelt ("Cholmondeley" equals "Chumley") togged up in a fantastically brocaded tunic. The two Speakers wore gold-spangled gowns. Male MPs and peers had their better suits on and there were considerably more hats and fascinators than usual around the parliamentary estate.
Chris Bryant: Things are desperate when people prefer immigration limbo to deportation
17 March 2012 12:00 AM
A Political Life
Chris Bryant: I'm gay. I have a husband and he's called Jared – words that no longer shock
10 March 2012 12:00 AM
Twenty or so eight- to 10-year-olds from Cwmclydach primary school trundled down the road to my constituency office last Friday because they were studying politics in the Rhondda. We had laid out some election leaflets for them to peruse and they seemed to be taking a genuine interest. Then came the questions, starting with: "So why did you become an MP?" That was easy enough. The next one was a bit more difficult: "Why did you stop being a vicar?"
Chris Bryant: Just when we should be working together, Cameron is sulking behind the door
03 March 2012 12:00 AM
A Political Life
Chris Bryant: It makes lurid headlines, but drunken brawling is not a parliamentary malaise
25 February 2012 12:00 AM
Chris Bryant: Here in the Rhondda, I am seeing the human cost behind the jobless figures
18 February 2012 12:00 AM
A Political Life
Chris Bryant: How sanctimonious and uptight do you have to be to object to these prayers?
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
Chris Bryant: Identifying these pariahs isn't about class warfare. It's about common decency
04 February 2012 12:00 AM
Politics is taking a strange, atomised, bitty trajectory at the moment. In one corner there are things that aren't quite what they seem.
Chris Bryant: If you're confused about the facts and can't admit you're wrong – that's ministerialitis
28 January 2012 12:00 AM
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Bloody attack brings terror to capital’s streets
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Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
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Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
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After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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