Daily Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to Labour MP Frank Field, the Fifties was a lost golden age of decorum and decency, the last moment when Britain was a 'peaceful and self-governing kingdom'.
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Ever asked yourself why the gutter press version of political bloggers never throw their "fireworks" at Tories? It is the nature of a leak and expose that they mainly benefit only the opposition . Hardly a level playing field is it? Fearless Frank Field is clear evidence of the guts required to be a really dynamic rebel on the government benches who benefits both the electorate and ultimately the...
Times Online - Rod Liddle (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Were we better off in the 1950s than we are now? The Labour MP Frank Field thinks that we were, commending the fact that back then, instead of getting drunk, stabbing one another and watching Strictly Come Dancing, the mass of British people were cheerfully occupied with such fulfilling and organic pastimes as “cooking, gardening, dressmaking, music-making, rickets, polio and smallpox”.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
People are still scrabbling around to explain the delinquency of modern British youth, but the truth is that nobody can do so satisfactorily. The latest to have a go is Frank Field, the Labour MP for Birkenhead, who blames it on a "collapse in the art of good parenting". He looks back to the 50s as a golden era in which crime levels were far lower than today and Britain was "a peaceful and self-governing...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
From The Christian Institute A Labour MP has warned that the fallout society faces from family breakdown is just as dramatic as the present financial crisis. Frank Field identified the 1950s as the “peak years for Britain being a peaceful and self-governing kingdom” and blamed bad parenting for increasing levels of violent crime. In a lecture given last [...]
The Christian Institute (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Frank Field MP blamed increasing violent crime on bad parenting.
Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Frank Field speaks his mind. Proving as ever that he’s a mighty thorn in Gordon Brown’s side, Labour MP Frank Field had a few criticisms to make about the Pre Budget Report in his blog including the government’s failure to adequately compensate those who lost out in the 10p tax row. The package therefore raised some fundamental [...]
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The Government claims the change in the law will narrow the list of occupations which companies can fill with workers from outside the European Economic Area.Frank Field MP and Nicholas Soames MP, co-chairmen of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Mig
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The Government claims the change in the law will narrow the list of occupations which companies can fill with workers from outside the European Economic Area.Frank Field MP and Nicholas Soames MP, co-chairmen of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Mig
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Britain was at its best in the 1950s, the Labour MP Frank Field suggested. We now have much more, yet we have lost something.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Britain was at its peak as peaceful society in the 1950s and has been ruined by bad parents according to Frank Field.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Alex Brummer in the Daily Mail says he's finally given up on New Labour because of its economic policies. Hamish McRae in the Independent predicts that the recession will last longer than the government is predicting. Frank Field says on his blog that he doubts whether the measures in the pre-budget report will work. Alice Miles in the Times says we can't afford the Olympic Games and they should go...
Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The Political Studies Association have just announced their 2008 Awards. Boris johnson wins Politician of Year, Vince Cable wins Parliamentarian of the year, and Frank Field wins Backbencher of the year. Strangely Steve Richards from the Indepednent won an award and was praised for "proper, fair-minded analysis of the problems created by – and afflicting – Gordon Brown, offering refreshingly insightful...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Newcomer of the Year: Lord Mandelson Secretary of State for business, enterprise and regulatory reform, and president of the Board of Trade Inquisitor of the Year: Rt Hon Frank Field Labour MP for Birkenhead Peer of the Year: Baroness Manningham-Buller A crossbench life peer and former director-general of MI5 Speech of the Year: Diane Abbott Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington Resignation...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Newcomer of the Year: Peter Mandelson Inquisitor of the Year: Frank Field Peer of the Year: Eliza Manningham-Buller Speech of the Year: Diane Abbott on 42 days Resignation of the Year: David Davis Minister to watch: Ed Miliband Campaigner of the Year: Ben Wallace Readers' Award: Nadine Dorries Parliamentarian of the Year: Vince Cable Politician of the Year: Boris Johnson
