Ministers should be given annual performance appraisals to see how well they are doing their jobs, a former head of the civil service said today.
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Question Time: Can't the BBC allow us one hour of unashamedly highbrow televison?
Sunday 03 February 2013
We no longer have reasoned arguments between people who know what they're talking about, interspersed with intelligent contributions from the audience
Baroness Warsi: Fewer than one in four people believe Islam is compatible with British way of life
Thursday 24 January 2013
Fewer than one in four people now believe that following Islam is compatible with a British way of life, Britain's most senior Muslim minister will warn today.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Rio was right, but he'll pay the price
Monday 22 October 2012
Four cheers for Rio Ferdinand. The disagreeable Chelsea football captain, John Terry, called QPR player Anton Ferdinand a "f***ing black c***" during a match last autumn and was fined £220,000 and banned for four games. That's all folks, some pocket money taken and a bit of time off to swig champagne for breakfast.
Baroness Warsi cleared over Lords expenses
Thursday 26 July 2012
Tory chairman Baroness Warsi has been cleared of abusing expenses by claiming for overnight stays at a property she was using for free.
Steve Richards: Sayeeda Warsi's problem
is that her job just doesn't matter enough
Thursday 07 June 2012
Modern parties make it impossible for anyone to be
a wholehearted success as chairman
Warsi investigation 'to pick up loose ends'
Tuesday 05 June 2012
An inquiry in to whether Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi breached the ministerial code will pick up any loose ends, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.
Committee claims rights laws leave out Christians
Monday 27 February 2012
Britain's equality laws have disadvantaged Christians and increased community tensions, according to a cross-party committee of Christian MPs and Peers published today.
Amol Rajan: A brutal price still paid for daring to challenge faith
Tuesday 21 February 2012
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Theresa May has taught me how to hate again
Monday 10 October 2011
Did you watch and listen to THAT woman, Theresa May, last week? I did, live at the Tory party conference in Manchester, while pressing my bitten nails into my hands and building up such fantasies of violence that they could imprison me for thought crimes under our anti-terrorism laws. There wasn't much applause for the first part of her speech, so she threw them immigrants and asylum-seekers and then the Human Rights Act (HRA) to tear into. Members turned into noisy hounds and May was riding high. Until Ken Clarke pulled her off the horse. He is set to be punished by the PM, who obviously backs May's inciting horn calls.
Alistair Darling to expose 'volcanic' Gordon Brown
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Former Chancellor Alistair Darling will lift the lid on Gordon Brown's increasingly "brutal and volcanic" demeanour when his memoirs are published next week, according to a Labour-supporting blog.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: What hope for tolerance if we treat foreign artists like dirt?
Monday 11 July 2011
Dominic Lawson: Vote yes, or no – the outcome will barely make a difference
Tuesday 03 May 2011
Johann Hari: If you get the X Factor you'll get AV
Friday 22 April 2011
You can vote No with David Cameron, the BNP and a campaign that thinks you are too thick to count to three
Leading article: Myths on voting reform must not prevail
Sunday 17 April 2011
The campaign for a better democracy in Britain has to fight, fight and fight again. According to our ComRes opinion poll today, the No campaign in the referendum has opened up a 6 percentage-point lead, as some of the don't-knows have made up their minds over the past few weeks.
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