Nick Cohen: Labour members are “in despair” of trying to unseat Lynne Featherstone
by Stephen Tall on January 22, 2013
The Observer’s Nick Cohen isn’t Lynne Featherstone’s biggest fan: “I cannot tell you how much I dislike this stupid, two-faced and dangerous politician,” he writes affectionately in The Spectator. He later labels her a “menace”, a “hypocrite”, and curses her “wittering” (I wonder if that’s a verb he’s ever applied to a male politician, by [...]
Nick Cohen: Labour members are “in despair” of trying to unseat Lynne Featherstone
by Stephen Tall on January 22, 2013
The Observer’s Nick Cohen isn’t Lynne Featherstone’s biggest fan: “I cannot tell you how much I dislike this stupid, two-faced and dangerous politician,” he writes affectionately in The Spectator. He later labels her a “menace”, a “hypocrite”, and curses her “wittering” (I wonder if that’s a verb he’s ever applied to a male politician, by [...]
Today’s Link-Love: January 22, 2013
by Stephen Tall on January 22, 2013
Here’s today’s hand-picked selection that caught my interest… Obama's inaugural speech: The full text – NBC Politics It’s interesting: no Brit politician would make a speech like Obama’s http://buff.ly/YiWa6D And if they did the media/public wd prob hate it. Hail (…)
Benefits Uprating Bill: Steve Webb’s arguments FOR
by Stephen Tall on January 22, 2013
I have posted here the arguments delivered by Andrew George and Charles Kennedy against the Benefits Uprating Bill, the third and final reading of which was passed last night. Steve Webb, the Lib Dem pensions minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, summed up for the Government and responded to their arguments. Here are [...]
