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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
David Blunkett, the former home secretary, yesterday led a cross-party attack on the police for what he described as "overkill" in arresting the shadow home office minister, Damian Green, after he published Home Office documents allegedly leaked by a civil servant. As fresh details emerged of a nine-hour police operation against Green, whose parliamentary computer was seized and whose wife...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Is David Blunkett on his way back to a senior role? It would, after all, fit a recent pattern if he returned to the cabinet for a third time; that is exactly what Peter Mandelson did last month. A lengthy report by the former home secretary on Thursday, which proposed a "civil volunteer corps" for 16-to-25-year-olds, didn't attract the sort of attention Blunkett used to command. He appeared...
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
The so-called 'Blunkett's bobbies', police community support officers, will be given extended powers, including being able to detain suspects, under plans unveiled yesterday.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Young people should join civil volunteer corps and social enterprises that employ disabled staff should get tax relief, according to plans drawn up by David Blunkett
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Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
David Blunkett - who, like Peter Mandelson, resigned twice from the Cabinet over sleaze - says that all those aged 16 to 25 should do at least six months of intensive voluntary work . Never mind voluntary work, David. When you were a paid local councillor in the late 1970s in Sheffield, the council failed to take action that might have saved the two daughters of the pervert jailed for fathering...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Everyone between the ages of 16 and 25 should do six months of "intensive" voluntary work, former home secretary David Blunkett says.
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The former home secretary absolutely no understanding of the vital function of the jury in our democracy and appeared to have been influenced on the subject by John Grisham Defending in a case at Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London. Most trials alleging terrorism are now listed here rather than the Old Bailey because the court is alongside Belmarsh Prison and prisoners can be brought to court...
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EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
LONDON, November 27 /PRNewswire/ -- - But More Work Needs to be Done in Two Key Areas David Blunkett's new report on the future .. - Read more
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Unlock Democracy (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP will be giving The Unlock Democracy Lecture tomorrow (Wednesday 25 November). Entitled "Democracy and Equality - towards genuine universal suffrage," Mr Blunkett will argue for "a wider, pluralistic and diverse democratic system." Mr Blunkett will say: "45 years ago, Professor Sir Bernard Crick wrote his then-seminal book, In Defence of Politics. The...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
What happened to David Blunkett's 2003 pledge to create "one-stop shops" for justice?
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The First Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kimberly Quinn becomes an author Kimberley Fortier, the former publisher of the Spectator who came to public attention when in 2004 it was revealed she had had a love child with the then Home Secretary David Blunkett, has re-invented herself as a children's author.Fortier (pictured), who now calls herself Kimberly Quinn, has signed a deal, believed to be well into six figures, with Atlantic...
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Nick Bourne AM (Free subscription) | yesterday
... any concern abut what has happened. Harriet Harman has, as have some other Labour MPs like David Blunkett and Denis MacShane. This entire matter goes to the root of our constitution and our system of checks and balances. The government should come clean on the affair, and condemn the action and apologise. If the Home Secretary is shown to have known about this matter it surely is a resigning...
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icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday
No more whitewashes! by Denise Robertson, Western Mail ON RADIO 4 Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was discussing the case of a man who fathered nine children by violently raping his two daughters over many years.The attacks led to 19 pregnancies. The man has now been jailed for life.Mr. Clegg said: “You’ll never stop wicked parents doing evil to children.”Now former Home Secretary David Blunkett,...
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Adam Macqueen (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Gawd bless David Blunkett, the man you can always rely upon to say something stupid in a crisis. From today's Guardian : "David Blunkett, the former home secretary, led a cross-party attack on the police yesterday for what he described as 'overkill' in arresting Damien Green, the shadow Home Office minister... Blunkett spoke of 'the danger of treating every case as though we are...
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politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... party figures who’ve worked this one out is very small. It’s down almost to Denis MacShane, David Blunkett and Harriet Harman. She, of course, is almost immune from Brown Central because she was elected deputy leader. Other ministers would clearly find it hard speaking out in public. I’m hoping for a new poll tonight, from ComRes, which might give us a sense of the public reaction. Mike...
