The Labour MP Jim Sheridan made a monumental ass of himself over press regulation, when he suggested that Parliament amend the decision made in 1803 to allow journalists onto the premises, to exclude those he does not like. However, to give the man credit, he is battling valiantly on behalf of Parliament's low paid staff, who are having their working week lengthened and their overtime and anti social hours payments cut.
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Secrets and lies: Martin Sixsmith on the trail of a boy ripped from his mother
Sunday 27 September 2009
The truth is important to the former BBC news reporter and government press secretary Martin Sixsmith. Luckily, he didn't need to dress up the remarkable true story told in his latest book...
'Beast' revels in taming of red giant at Turf Moor
Friday 21 August 2009
Brian Jensen – "The Beast" to Burnley fans – is a cult hero at Turf Moor but the Danish goalkeeper who saved Michael Carrick's penalty on Wednesday night is also a Manchester United fan.
DVD: In The Loop (15)
Friday 21 August 2009
It's the film that brought the phrase "Difficult, difficult, lemon difficult," into the national consciousness.
Armando Iannucci: 'I don't despise politicans'
Friday 14 August 2009
The creator of 'In the Loop' and 'The Thick of It' is one of the funniest men in Britain. Is he also one of the angriest?
Dylan Jones: Sir Bernard Ingham says that Thatcher never read leaders – 'to her it was a waste of time'
Saturday 04 July 2009
Talk of the town
John Rentoul: What role did Alastair Campbell play in the Iraq war?
Monday 22 June 2009
The Mail today also provides a chance to recycle one of my favourite cartoons that I have never seen. It asks, under the ludicrous heading of "Analysis":
Bruce Anderson: A valid Iraq inquiry needs answers from the Americans
Monday 22 June 2009
Tony Blair could not admit his real – and praiseworthy – motive: regime change
John Rentoul: Alastair Campbell has a go at Ed Balls
Thursday 18 June 2009
And quite right too. On his blog the advocate of Message Discipline takes issue with the shadow Chancellor's appearance on TV yesterday morning, in which he expressed his "personal" view was that the Iraq inquiry should have been more open than the one announced by Gordon Brown
Mark Steel: Why not hold all trials in private?
Wednesday 17 June 2009
They'd have put Cherie Blair on the inquiry, only she'd have charged a fee
John Rentoul: Mono-Frenzy Syndrome
Monday 18 May 2009
Alastair Campbell, terrific blogger and right about nearly everything, asks a question today, the day on which I received my Government leaflet on swine 'flu. "Is it not strange how, with more media space than ever, the press and broadcasters appear unable to manage more than one frenzy at a time?"
Cameron: This will be the new age of austerity
Sunday 26 April 2009
As Brown enters the twilight zone, Labour is mired in angry recriminations
Labour investigates vote-rigging claims
Saturday 18 April 2009
Enquiry launched as Blair ally's daughter battles to be chosen to fight safe seat
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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