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Equality before the law
If Harriet Harman's odious Equality Bill reaches the statute book in anything like its current form (in other words, if the House of Lords doesn't manage to delay it before a general election intervenes) then there may well be social and legal chaos ...
Britain turns into Poundland
One thing's clear after yesterday's abject performance from Alistair Darling - and you will excuse, I hope, an untypical lapse into the vernacular - we are, as a country, in the shit. Not just in the shit, but choking and spluttering in a Loch Ness ...
On not being extremely happy
This must be one of the most bizarre opening paragraphs I've ever read. It comes from Jennifer Howse writing on the Times "Alpha Mummy" blog:I’m in Spain writing a piece for the Times’s website and I caught the last few minutes of a Newsnight la...
Faith talk
As Secretary of State for "Communities" (and it's worth pausing here, just for a moment, to notice the typically New Labourish elision of title and propaganda - seen also in Miliband Minor's billing as secretary for "climate change") one of John Denh...
Irvine: Blair was completely clueless
Tony Blair's abolition (or, to be more specific, attempted abolition, followed by effective-but-not-quite-abolition) of the ancient and stately office of Lord Chancellor was one of the more remarkable and telling episodes of his time in power. Dishi...
Don't just blame Gordon
Madeleine Bunting writes a lot of nonsense, usually, but she has one thing right today. There's something rather off-putting about the current open season on Gordon Brown:I've no appetite right now to join what increasingly sounds like a mob lynchin...
Sunset in Brighton
There are two big winners from the Sun's decision to back the Conservative Party at the forthcoming election. The first is David Cameron, obviously. The Sun's support probably didn't swing the last three elections. 1997 and 2001 were both walkover...
An elegaic couplet
That was the change we chose // change that benefits the hardworking majority and not just a privileged fewCatullus would have been proud. © 2009 Heresy Corner, all rights reserved. ...
Gordon Brown stealing BNP clothes again?
Yesterday, the BNP issued a cheeky press release drawing attention to Labour's kleptomaniac tendencies:The British National Party has started moves to copyright its political slogans after the Labour Party stole the BNP-origin term “Operation Fight...
Sums it up nicely
I'd like to share with you this comment, by "Anax", taken from a CIF thread on the policewomen banned from looking after each other's children. It could apply to most of New Labour's bully state legislation."It happened because we thought it couldn'...
Collective madness
The Mail on Sunday today has further details on the two mothers who have been banned by Ofsted from looking after each other's children. One of them, Leanne Shepherd, describes the Kafka-shaped hole into which she and her lifelong friend Lucy Jarret...
Polly\'s fantasy Gordon
As Gordon Brown is greeted in Brighton with what one BBC reporter delightfully described as "a carefully rehearsed ecstatic welcome", Polly Toynbee has written his resignation speech for him. The short version is, "I'm brilliant: that's why I have to...
Serves her right
Baroness Patricia Scotland broke the law when she employed a woman who, it turns out, was not legally entitled to work in Britain. A law she should know about: not just because she was one of the youngest ever QCs, nor because now, as Attorney Gener...
A post seething with impotent rage
Do you remember the Maxwell pensioners? They were perfectly blameless employees of the Mirror group and other businesses controlled by a fat con-man, originally from Czechoslovakia, named Robert Maxwell, who fell off a yacht in mysterious circumstan...
A Job Advertisement
Captain wanted for sinking shipWhite Star Lines is pleased to announce a vacancy for the post of Captain of the SS Titanic, currently experiencing difficult conditions in the North Atlantic Ocean.This prestigious appointment - leading the crew and sa...
Language Games
Playing around with semantics has always been a politician's stock in trade, but David Miliband's linguistic somersaults this morning on Radio 4 were among the most credibility-defying since Bill Clinton attempted to redefine the word "is".Bill Ramme...
Oh Mandy
Decca Aitkenhead's interview with Peter Mandelson reads in parts like a Hello! magazine profile. Or worse, like the effusion of a starstruck teenager. Of her few days spent trailing the Deputy Prime Minister (sorry, he's not officially DPM, is he? ...
Brown and out
From Lord "Charlie" Falconer, who has, to no-one's surprise, come out this lunchtime and called for Brown to fall on his dagger:We need unity above all. Can we get unity under the current leadership? I am not sure that we can and we need to debate it...
That Caroline Flint resignation letter in full
"Dear" Gordon,When you asked me to join your government, you told me I was special, that I would be one of your inner circle, that I mattered. That I would be attending Cabinet, like, every week. I felt like the luckiest girl in the whole world. B...
A bad day to bury good news
With Jacqui Smith quitting the Cabinet, yesterday ought to have been a good news day for Gordon Brown. After all, here was an unpopular and, by general consent, fairly useless home secretary, even before her headline-grabbing involvement in the expe...
Time for Jacqui Bye-bye
Ding Dong the witch is dead. Politically, at least. The most overpromoted, most ineffective, and yet paradoxically most dangerous home secretary in living memory, is to depart the scene no later than next week, joining the ever-growing exodus of ra...
Unfortunate Infix
Elliot Morley, putting the cunt in Scunthorpe. © 2009 Heresy Corner, all rights reserved. ...
Questions of Identity
It is natural to look upon the Equality Bill, unveiled by Harriet Harman last Monday, as the apogee of New Labour social engineering, the final legacy of all the politically correct tsars and quangocrats whose efforts have given so much work to lawye...
