David Laws is all over the web after saying today that he has paid a high price for keeping his sexuality secret. It's nothing to do with his sexuality. As someone has well phrased it, he put money in his lover's pocket. Forget the sophistry about was he or wasn't he a partner. Clearly he was. Even if a legalistic case could be made (which only further disfigures any notion of hones...
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PurpleScorpion on 1st Jun 2010 (via thepurplescorpion.blogspot.com)
Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust have paid out a secret amount of your money for a misdiagnosis by a doctor whose name is secret, even though a secret report said she had been working within her professional guidelines and no fault had been attached to her. Had she done this before? Has she done it since? That's a secret.
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PurpleScorpion on 30th Aug 2011 (via thepurplescorpion.blogspot.com)
Alex Salmond has refused to apologise to taxpayers for handing an "insolvent" company a secret £180,000 loan without checking the money could be paid back.
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Telegraph on 25th Jun 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
A senior SNP minister agreed a secret £180,000 loan to the financially stricken organisers of Scotland's largest clan meeting without checking the money could be paid back, an official inquiry has found.
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Telegraph on 24th Jun 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Not quite I think: I went through most of my 20s not acknowledging my own sexuality to anyone but myself, let alone my own family. I have this small strange feeling that perhaps the occasional lover might have been let in on that secret you know.
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TimWorstall on 30th May 2010 (via timworstall.com)
Ruth Rendell may be the mistress of the crime mystery, but there is one case that even her celebrated creation, Inspector Wexford, would be unlikely to solve: The Case of the Mystery Writer's Secret Political Lover.
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TheIndependent on 23rd Aug 2008 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
With the UK building industry down in the dumps the possibility of a £275 Million contract to build the new US Embassy in London would seem like a job any firm would love to land. However, British Firms need not apply, since only contractors holding US Defence Department Security Service Secret Facility Clearance, with secret safeguarding capability, are eligible to carry out the work. Unfor...
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CllrStephenAllison on 9th Nov 2008 (via steveallison107.blogspot.com)
When a minister resigns over paying rent to his secret gay lover, it is a sure sign that political life has slipped to scandalously low levels.
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Spiked on 3rd Jun 2010 (via spiked-online.com)
Much scoffing in the blog o'sphere about the travails of Iris Robinson, wife of NI First Minister Peter Robinson, who allegedly set up her lover in business with loans from property developers to whom she had ties. The money was paid to her 19-year-old lover Kirk McCambley to help him launch a new cafe. She later asked him for £5,000 for herself. Mrs Robinson was said to be unable to comment for ...
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MrEugenides on 8th Jan 2010 (via mreugenides.blogspot.com)
The Cabinet minister charged with rescuing the Government's finances has used taxpayers' money to pay more than £40,000 to his long-term partner, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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Telegraph on 28th May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)