David Smith's EconomicsUK.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The word “nutter” and Bank of England are only occasionally used in the same sentence. It was used soon after Bank independence in 1997 when Diane Abbott, the Labour MP, accused the governor, then Eddie George, of being an...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The word “nutter” and Bank of England are only occasionally used in the same sentence. It was used soon after Bank independence in 1997 when Diane Abbott, the Labour MP, accused the governor, then Eddie George, of being an inflation nutter.
Dickiebo (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
DIANE ABBOTT Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a Labour politician, who has been the M.P. for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons. She has always been considered to the left of “New Labour”, and is a member [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
When Jill Berry claims that "teenage girls need to be taught a heavy dose of realism – that it may not be possible to be a perfect mother and a career woman" ( Girls 'need to be realistic' about careers , 14 November), she both metes out a discouraging slap on the wrist to girls with legitimate career aspirations and pathologises the full participation of women in public life. Why...
Lightwater (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Alastair Campbell was offered an opportunity to reflect on the unsavoury articles on Gordon Brown in the Sun newspaper, in Andrew Neil’s BBC’s This Week programme on Thursday evening. It provided illuminating exchanges between Alastair Campbell, Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo. Yet further evidence of the low regard in which Alastair Campbell is generally held. Certainly by me too, and...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The vast police directory is trimmed, but only a little AT THE start of the 20th century, Scotland Yard’s fingerprint bureau began a quiet revolution in policing. A hundred years on, detectives have a new tool at their disposal in the form of DNA matching. In 1995 the government set up a national database recording the DNA of everyone who was convicted of a crime, hoping that it would make future...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I love old horror movies, really old ones, the old black and white flicks with people like Boris Karloff. I’m sure people will have seen some of the original Frankenstein movies. Quite often there are scenes of indignant mobs out with flaming torches, hunting down the monster. But that’s so old-fashioned, don’t you agree. The mob is still with us of course, but it has long since lost...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I want to live in a world where skin colour is a purely descriptive personal characteristic A black couple have complained because a restaurant receipt described them as a black couple. Viewers complained when Andrew Neil suggested that if Diane Abbott was a biscuit, she'd be a chocolate HobNob. Oh, no. If it is racist to notice what colour a person's skin is, then I am most definitely a racist. What...
Tongue Tied 3 (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
More BBC double standards Call a black a golliwog (even in private) and you are OUT. But you can go on TV and call the Queen anything you like "The BBC has been accused of double standards after it once again broadcast offensive comments about the Queen. On the latest episode of Have I Got News For You, comedy actor and host Miranda Hart described the monarch and her husband as 'that Greek twit...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Politician Diane Abbott was among the guests at the Arcola Theatre last night for the premiere of Kwame Kwei-Armah's new play Seize the Day, the second instalment in the Tricycle's Not Black and White season (See News::E8831250013979, 11 Aug 2009). ...
wooller.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
diane abbott hobnobs with debbie allen, eamonn walker, author kwame kwei-armah and the cast for a traditional press night curry upstairs at the tricycle
Lightwater (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Gosh, the media remain absolutely fixated on the Tony Blair for EU President story. It even had both Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo, on BBC’s This Week prog last night, as animated about this as I’ve ever seen them. Diane Abbott rattled off the same argument as William Hague, I reported on earlier, and Michael Portillo on Blair [...]
icWales (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Neil compared regular panellist Diane Abbott to a chocolate HobNob, while decreeing Michael Portillo “more of a custard cream”. This has caused a huge fuss (in my opinion rightly so), but Neil has not yet had to grovel in quite the way Anton Du Beke did on Strictly.
The Talking Clock (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Diane Abbott - one of the few Labour MPs who we will actually listen to - has just said that the debate on Tony Blair's possible role as President of Europe is proof that we were misled over the Lisbon Treaty and that we should have a vote on it. We'll double check but, from memory, Diane Abbott abstained on the referendum vote. And if she has now moved her position... You'll have to watch the
Operation Black Vote (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Channel 4’s series on race and science is drawing mixed reviews. This week Diane Abbott joined the critics calling the programmes “rehashed nonsense”, an attack which brought a wounded response from the broadcaster
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