Labour’s Prism hypocrisy is obscene

Labour’s hypocrisy since 2010 has been galling, but their response to the Prism surveillance scandal really turns the stomach. I’ve just walked past a TV screen at Terminal 5 (going to Washington, a pure coincidence,) to see Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas...

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Question time live blog 6/6/13

Lovely Margot James features, but we also have to put up with Matthew Oakshott and Salma Yaqoob.

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Looks like another lefty loudmouth is plagiarising

Stop me if you have heard this one before, but a popular, prominent left wing social commentator appears to have caught out lifting quotes. Harry Cole, as his Spectator alter-ego Steerpike, has revealed that a quote that appears in Penny’s breakthrough...

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Lords gives landslide in favour of equal marriage

Equal marriage has tonight taken another huge step towards becoming a reality, with a wrecking amendment defeated 390-148.

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“They can hear you singing in the chamber” – equal marriage vigil raises the roof of parliament

On a gorgeous, almost summer, evening in Westminster the final throes of the campaign for equal marriage were in progress. It’s very easy to be cynical about politics but this felt different. People from all the political parties came and spoke in favour...

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Monks and millionaires – we will get the politics we deserve

This morning has seen a debate raging about MPs expenses, and the system imposed by IPSA, introduced after the 2010 scandal. MPs get a salary of £66,000 a year which is good but nowhere near what some of those people could be earning if they decided to...

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