Lynne Featherstone
Julie Burchill, trannies and the free press
If anybody doubts that free speech would be in danger after Leveson it is worth remembering what it is already like in this country. A couple of months back Julie… Continue reading
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Can’t we even throw out Lynne Featherstone?
I gave a talk to the Hornsey and Wood Green Labour Party last night. If you don’t know the area, the constituency covers Highgate, Muswell Hill and Crouch End: leafy… Continue reading
35 CommentsMay backs gay marriage
So Theresa May has voiced her support for same-sex marriage, joining Lynne Featherstone, Yvette Cooper and the PM’s Parliamentary Private Secretary Desmond Swayne in recording an Out4Marriage video. Of course,… Continue reading
54 CommentsPolitical Stepford Wives
At the beginning of the conference season I mused on Twitter that these occasions were very tribal, but that I had never been able to work out what defined the… Continue reading
19 CommentsCompromise time for Nick Clegg?
Where are we with the tuition fee rebellion? Nick Clegg has an article in the FT claiming that the coalition’s policy is fairness codified, but he is running out of… Continue reading
2 CommentsConfession Time: I Voted Labour
I left the Labour Party in 1994 and re-joined on May 6th 2010. There, I’ve said it. I had always intended to vote Liberal Democrat in this election, but changed… Continue reading
40 CommentsOld Comrades Drift Back to Labour
I have had a number of shocked emails from old friends on the left following my previous post here, which many saw as an endorsement of the Liberal Democrats. In… Continue reading
22 CommentsThe Oxbridge Elitism Debate: Lynne Featherstone Intervenes
I always worry about attacks on the so-called elitism of our top universities. It strikes me that academic excellence must always be the "sine qua non" of access to the… Continue reading
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