I went to see Gethsemane by David Hare at the National Theatre last night. Political drama is always hard to get right, and even harder to keep politicos content. Even so, I was particularly disappointed. The basic plot (spoilers) revolves around the teenage daughter of the Home Secretary being gang raped by a group
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QuaequamBlog on 15th Feb 2009 (via theliberati.net)
The crashing of Jacqui Smith's privacy shows that data 'security' is garbage. Yet gullible MPs still vote as if it existed Sweet is the spectacle of a home secretary bitten by her own snake. The outrage of Jacqui Smith's television expenses claim lies not in its content, lurid as it is, but in the way it was exposed. How many times must the home secretary have been assured in s...
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Guardian on 1st Apr 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
The key political aide to the Home Secretary was cast as one of the main characters in a racy novel set among the horse riding community.
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Telegraph on 17th May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, on reports today on the introduction of Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIMs), said:
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LabourParty on 23rd Nov 2011 (via labour.org.uk)
Chris Grayling is making his first major speech as Shadow Home Secretary today. I’ll have a look at the content later, but I did notice he attacked Labour for having a “musical chairs based system of home secretaries” which apparently “has left Britain a more dangerous, less civilised place to live in”. Chris Grayling is the
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ABlogFromTheBackRoom on 23rd Feb 2009 (via hopisen.wordpress.com)
A COMPLAINT has been made to the parliamentary sleaze watchdog about Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, claiming allowances for a second home while lodging with her sister.
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Scotsman on 11th Feb 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Asked why there had been talk of the Home Secretary performing a "u-turn" on knife criminals attending A&E, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Home Secretary had made the position quite clear at Home Office Oral Questions. What the Home Secretary and the Home Office had been talking about, and had been clear about throughout, was developing Knife Referral Schemes. These were sch...
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DowningStreetSays on 15th Jul 2008 (via downingstreetsays.com)
Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, said: "We need full disclosure of all connections, relationships and meetings between the Metropolitan Police and News International, right now. It isn't enough to defer these issues to the judge-led inquiry, as the Mayor and Home Secretary seem content to do.
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LabourParty on 15th Jul 2011 (via labour.org.uk)
The content was pieced together professionally. It was rolled out successfully to media, justifying its budget and establishing the grounds for further pieces of content.
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BloodAndTreasure on 20th Aug 2008 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
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