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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
She really does not want to be prime minister. That was my first thought when Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, voted on Thursday night to keep MPs' expenses payments. Curiously, a colleague of mine had an equal and opposite reaction. He thought that she – and Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, who also voted to keep the sty well stocked – really wanted to be prime minister.
TheOtherSideofKim Front Page (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
No, this isn’t about guns. It’s about photography. Via Insty comes this classic of governmental statist-speak. First the reaffirmation of a right, from Brit HomeSec Jacqui Smith:‘First of all, may I take this opportunity to state that the Government greatly values the importance of the freedom of the press, and as such there is no legal restriction on photography in public places,’ Smith writes. Then...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Gordon Brown said he was disappointed with 33 of his own ministers, including Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, for voting to continue with the " John Lewis List" of MPs' allowances for furnishing their second homes.
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Sky is tentatively reporting that Boulton will host a debate between David Davis and Tony McNulty at 1100 this Sunday (tomorrow). Surprising since it was reported that Downing Street had decried that Davis was not to be debated against, all the more to marginalise him. Tony McNulty went to the same school as Guido. He learnt logic from a fearsome maths master in the Jesuit tradition (though our old...
Socialist Courier (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
"Gay and lesbian asylum-seekers can be safely deported to Iran as long as they live their lives "discreetly", the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has claimed. In a letter to a Liberal Democrat peer, seen by The Independent, Ms Smith said there was no "real risk" of gay men and lesbians being discovered by the Iranian authorities or "adverse action" being taken against those who were "discreet" about...
grimmerupnorth (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Yesterday, during my weekly stint in Oxfam , I picked up an excellent bargain. A brand-new IKEA bathroom mat for just £3.99. Somehow, I cannot imagine the likes of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith perusing the local charity shops for dinky household items. They don't need to - thanks to the "John Lewis list." Actually, my brother-in-law works for John Lewis so I could probably take advantage of his staff...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Gordon Brown said he was disappointed with 33 of his own ministers, including Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, for voting to continue with the "John Lewis List" of MPs' allowances for furnishing their second homes.
Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
[hat tip to Johnny Void] Photographic Surveillance in public can be, and is, used deliberately as a legal harassment technique, both by Police Forward Information Teams (who may sometimes be civilian photographers / videographers) and sometimes by their opponents e.g....
ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
More than 30 senior Government figures were among the 146 Labour MPs who voted to keep their generous expenses: Andy Burnham - Culture; Caroline Flint - Housing; Paul Murphy - Wales; Jacqui Smith - Home Secretary; Shaun Woodward - Northern Ireland. Nick Brown - Deputy Chief Whip; Alan Campbell - Whip; Angela Eagle - Treasury Minister; Maria Eagle - Ministry of Justice; Beverley Hughes -
the void (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
That hotbed of radical dissent the British Journal of Photography reports this week on disturbing police powers to forbid photography in certain situations. Bizarrely Home Secretary Jacqui Smith states in a letter responding to a query from the NUJ: “First of all, may I take this opportunity to state that the Government greatly values the importance [...]
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
No surprise to see the Wintertons voting to keep their troughs unaudited. Just to look at Tom Watson you know he obviously likes it at the trough. Surprised to see the likes of Jacqui Smith voting against auditing expenses. There were hundred or so more backbench Labour MPs who voted to keep their snouts in the trough, that is to be expected: they are taking a "fill yer boots before we go" attitude...
Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
If, like us, you are shocked and incensed about the disgraceful arrest and charging of nine NO2ID Campaign supporters (see previous article Nine NO2ID arrests at Home Office Minister Meg Hillier's secretive ID Cards centralised State database propaganda meeting...
Photography Blog (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The UK’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has given the go-ahead for photography to be restricted in the UK.
Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
A female knife attacker was on the run today after stabbing a young woman to death not far from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's home.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
A female knife attacker was on the run today after stabbing a young woman to death not far from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's home.
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news rage uk | 15/05/2008
It is impossible to escape knife crime at the moment. It seems like young men are dropping like flies and there is no suggestion or indication yet that these crimes will cease to continue. New mayor Boris has taken steps with the police and with the backing of home secretary Jacqui Smith to introduce measures for tackling the problem. Funding has been approved for more metal detectors and teenagers...
