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MP expenses
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Did the MP's manure come by appointment?
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Our local MP, David Heathcote-Amory, recently achieved public notoriety for his parliamentary expenses claim for £380 worth of horse manur...
House of Lords expenses: Lord Rees-Mogg on gravy trains
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'We must derail the grandfather of gravy trains' read a headline in the Mail on Sunday last weekend above a piece on the European ...
House of Lords expenses
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Readers of earlier posts on the House of Lords will know that I’d been hoping that the story about alleged dodgy dealings by some peers migh...
Is the MPs' expenses scandal a hidden legacy of Thatcherism?
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In last Thursday's Question Tim e on BBC1, Margaret Beckett claimed that the existing system of parliamentary expenses was brought in un...
Rhetoric wins applause for questioners on BBC Question Time
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It wasn't just some of David Dimbleby's questions that got applauded on last night's Question Time (see previous post). Some of ...
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Applause for Dimbleby's questions on BBC Question Time
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Two very unusual things happen in these two clips from last night's Question Time on BBC1. The first is that that David Dimbleby feels l...
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