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Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Reacting to the Information Commissioner’s opinion that minutes from a Cabinet meeting on the decision to invade Iraq ‘proved the absence of sufficient discussion’, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, Edward Davey said: “Public confirmation of Clare Short’s claim that the Cabinet was not allowed to discuss properly the Attorney General’s advice is a damning [...]
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Catholic Action UK (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
A great victory for faithful Catholics. From the Catholic Herald (14/11/08), in part: St Paul's School for Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham, had invited former Labour Minister Miss Short, an old girl, to be guest of honour at an awards ceremony today. But her invitation was retracted following vociferous complaints from parents and priests of the Birmingham Oratory, who objected to her voting record...
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Catholic and Loving it! (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Mum of 10 goes where Bishops fear to tread... ANGRY Birmingham MP Clare Short today branded her old Catholic school "incredibly rude" after it withdrew a prize-giving invitation because of parents' objections to her stance on abortion. Ms Short, the now independent MP for Ladywood, was due to have ...
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Birmingham: It's Not Shit Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
The Eye of the Storm is a great big video art project. One hundred and fifty people from around Brum (including Clare Short) were interviewed to discover each’s individual attempts to “manage the stresses of modern living and find calm within the storm”. Next year, the Birmingham stories will be incorporated in an outdoor digital art [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Clare Short's posture said it all. The former Labour Cabinet minister sat on her own, motionless and slouched in her chair, staring into the sea behind the vessel carrying her, narrowly avoiding being soaked in the spray from its wake.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
As one of Labour's numerous former ministers, Ms Clare Short, is said to have remarked recently: Gordon has been given back his dignity. I did not hear the words myself, so I forbear from enclosing them in quotation marks, but I have little doubt that the gist of them is accurate. They were uttered before the result of the Glenrothes by-election.
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Make My Vote Count (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
No, not according to Lenin, but in the view of Clare Short who gave the Political Studies Association Hansard Society Lecture on Democracy last week. " My own conclusion after 25 years in electoral politics" she remarked, "is that our...
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Former Labour minister Clare Short today attacked the government’s child poverty strategy after new figures revealed that half of all children are living in or close to poverty in many areas of the UK. Research by the Campaign to End Child Poverty(ECPC) found more than a quarter of all the UK’s constituencies have at least half of all children [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Former Labour minister Clare Short attacks the government as new figures reveal half of all children are living in or on the brink of poverty in many areas of the UK
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Obsolete (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Being around 9 months behind everyone else as usual, I'm still reading the Alastair Campbell diaries, which I'll probably eventually post a review of. One of the things that hits you, apart from how unpleasant Campbell is towards anyone who steps so much as an inch out of line, Clare Short being a perennial target, is how much of his time is taken up by the most inane and vacuous garbage which made...
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NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
I agree with the sentiment of this post , at least regarding Clare Short, and the article to which it links. I'm not sure 'shifting left' is what needs doing though. What we need to do is expand our repertoire leftwards , and adopt a more left 'utopia' to work towards. Moving the country identifiably leftwards rather than identifiably rightwards (an issue of direction more than position) would do me...
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grimmerupnorth (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Clare Short has made lots of mistakes in her time - not least not resigning over Iraq. And she was utterly wrong to abandon the Labour whip. Nevertheless, she makes some very salient points re Miliband in today's Independent. She shares my ( widely held) view that Gordon Brown's biggest mistake was not shifting left and sticking with the Blairite agenda. And that Miliband, far from being the answer...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The summer, when parliament closes down and people go on holiday, is famously known as the silly season. New Labour is certainly celebrating it in spectacular style.
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Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
I'm not going to pretend that I was ever a huge fan of Clare Short, but it is interesting that a former key ally of Gordon Brown should be as critical of him as she has just been in an interview with "The Momitor". The former Labour international development secretary said that he is a "control freak" who has done "extraordinarily badly" as prime minister and changed "remarkably little" since moving...
