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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Readers may be interested to read about the first instance last week on which John Leech MP was absent from a debate on a matter about which he is supposed to care deepy. It was in fact a Liberal Democrat sponsored Opposition Day debate. He still didn't make it. Once again Gerald Kaufman gave Leech and the useless Lib Dems in general a good old fashioned parliamentary monstering . The second occasion,...
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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Gerald Kaufman came up with some robust views in Foreign Office Questions , speaking of any attack by Israel on Iran: "It would be an attack on one of the nastiest regimes in the world by another of the nastiest regimes in the world." As you will see at the link David Miliband distanced himself from the remark. But the commentati at ConservativeHome distinguish themselves by calling Gerald "hard-left"...
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Labourhome (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
That 1983 manifesto was dubbed the "longest suicide note in history" by Gerald Kaufman - but it may have merely been a document 25 years ahead of it's time. This post is prompted by Channel 4 mentioning last night that nationalising banks was in that 1983 manifesto. I thought it would be fun to look it up to try to forsee the future as it were, and perhaps wind up our visiting Tories at the same time....
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
On Friday morning, in my Manchester constituency, I visited a drop-in centre for people in trouble. As I was leaving, I told my hosts that later that day I would be seeing the Prime Minister. They instructed me: "Give him our love."
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
I was somewhat perplexed by the question asked by Gerald Kaufman MP, Lab, Manchester Gorton via the good services of the Letters in The Guardian. Here it comes in full:Are the Israelis who demand an attack on Iran (Leaders, August 1), which - repulsive though its government undoubtedly is - has never invaded another country and possesses no nuclear weapons, the same Israelis who have launched successive...
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Neil Clark (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
This article of mine appears on the Guardian's 'Comment is Free' site. It was famously labelled (by the embryonic New Labourite Gerald Kaufman) as "the longest suicide note in history". Labour's 1983 manifesto was blamed by many – including the former prime minister, James Callaghan – for the party suffering a calamitous defeat in the general election held 25 years ago this week. But was the manifesto...
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
MANCHESTER MP Sir Gerald Kaufman revealed that members of his family were murdered in the Holocaust in an emotional speech in the Commons.
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The Good Library Blog (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Yet again this blog points out that all the many constructive points that have been made in the past few weeks by commentators on public libraries ( and reported here), were made and anticipated by Gerald Kaufman's Select Committee report of March 2005. Yet the Ministers responsible, civil servants of the DCMS, the officials of the MLA, the senior local government officers and the representatives...
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Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
Gerald Kaufman MP has a letter in the Guardian today. I think it comes up the heading of "Letters which, if you showed it to your best friend before you sent it, they would have said: 'Don't bother to send it' " Simon Hoggart's obsession with what I wear is beginning to display disturbingly fetishistic tendencies. His latest description of my clothes (Sketch, December 5) worryingly demonstrates
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Ed Vaizey (Free subscription) | 25/10/2007
The House of Commons is debating its procedures today. W e have just voted on whether MPs should be able to check their e-mails on their BlackBerries. There was a glorious moment when Gerald Kaufman, who is avant garde on most things except this issue, walked into the wrong lobby and had to be steered [...]
