Oh dear.  I fear Harriet Harman may be going way beyond the edge of sanity in her quest for positive discrimination:  "Harriet Harman is drawing up plans to stamp out discrimination against Scousers, Geordies and people from Yorkshire. Labour's deputy leader wants to get more people from the regions on to the boards of major public bodies. Ms Harman is planning to impose specia...

Harriet Harman's equality bill aims to outlaw discrimination, but it's not such an easy concept to nail down Rarely in the field of government legislation has a proposal been so exhaustively trailed, paraded and pre-announced as the equality bill which is published today. It was an important part of Harriet Harman's successful 1997 campaign for the deputy leadership (pdf), and it is...

EQUALITY minister Harriet Harman has played down suggestions that skirts might be banned in schools because they discriminate against transsexuals.

Harriet Harman says discrimination against the elderly is a serious problem that requires urgent action to fix.

Harriet Harman reappointed Trevor Phillips the government's equality champion despite knowing the public spending watchdog would heavily criticise his style of management only days later.

I doubt His Holiness and I would hit it off, but he is right that Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill would impose strictures upon religious communities that run contrary to their beliefs. The coalescence of British and EU anti-discrimination law is but an immodest garment for trenchant ideology. Harman’s bill strives to subjugate individual freedoms, such as that to religious expression, b...

Sometimes I wonder if John Bercow is a mole sent to undermine causes from within. Then I wonder if he even knows what cause he's pushing for. Bercow has written the astonishing piece Where is the Tory Harriet Harman? for The Guardian. There's not much to send Conservatives into a greater spasm of anger than "an article in The Guardian" but "Harriet Harman" is the nuclear option. Exactly ...

Labour's flagship Equality Bill could fail because so many different Government departments are involved in tackling discrimination according to MPs.

Harriet Harman apparently offers us yet more absurd prohibitions on "discrimination": even though these are actually designed to encourage discrimination of the kind that is Government-approved. Except that they don't even do that.  Women and ethnic minorities are to be postively discriminated for, except when a man (such as a white male candidate for a primary school teaching post) is especially ...

Harriet Harman is championing the cause of British naturists who claim to be experiencing discrimination as a result of their lifestyle choice.