Edwina Currie urges protesters not to disrupt Margaret Thatcher's funeral -...
Edwina Currie calls on protesters not to disrupt the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. The former Conservative health minister says while demonstrators are free to protest, they should try to understand...
View ArticleMail on Sunday's mysterious story of Downing Street love affair
The Mail on Sunday has published one of the most intriguing of splashes. On a day when the news agenda has been dominated by cash-for-questions newspaper stings (in The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday...
View ArticleMPs pay: how much are they worth?
MPs may be about to get a salary increase. Next week the parliamentary spending watchdog is expected to recommend a £10,000 rise, to £75,000. We ask them if they're worth itWe're all facing hard times....
View ArticleJohn Major: return of the self-made Tory | Andrew Gimson
The ex-prime minister has hit the headlines with fine speeches excoriating the current party leadership. His rehabilitation seems secured, so will his call for a more inclusive party succeed?For every...
View ArticleJack Monroe: 'It's time to focus on the real Benefits Street' | Jack Monroe
Poor people with TVs and tattoos inspire more anger than MPs with duck houses and moats. But in Westminster the perks of the job, often termed 'benefits', are funded by the taxpayerWhenever the debate...
View ArticleBritain's Great War, The Big Benefits Row, The Bridge and Suits: TV review –...
Telly addict Andrew Collins reviews Britain's Great War, presented by Jeremy Paxman; Channel 5's panel show The Big Benefits Row; Nordic noir The Bridge; US legal drama Suits; Steve Pemberton and Reece...
View ArticlePoverty can happen to anyone | Jack Monroe
The rhetoric of 'work hard and get on' can fall apart very quickly and you can find yourself in a pit of joblessness, benefit delays and depressionI didn't manage to say very much on Channel 5's The...
View ArticleEdwina Currie voices regrets over Jimmy Savile after inquiry criticism
Former health minister 'disgusted' by Savile revelations, after inquiry finds she rubber-stamped decision on Broadmoor roleThe former health minister Edwina Currie has said she regrets ever setting...
View ArticleJimmy Savile: detailed investigation reveals reign of abuse across NHS
Edwina Currie voices regret as report reveals sexual predator's activities at 28 hospital trustsThe minister in charge when Jimmy Savile was appointed to work at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital said she...
View ArticleRow as horsemeat file shelved
Publication of inquiry into 2013 food fraud delayed after national salmonella outbreak and reports of contaminated chickenThe official report into the causes of the horsemeat scandal has been shelved...
View ArticleEdwina Currie’s cleavage tweet was classic fake feminism | Barbara Ellen
Edwina Currie’s comment on Theresa May’s outfit was sexism, not solidarityWell done to Edwina Currie for hijacking the budget coverage by drawing attention to another woman’s breasts. Responding to a...
View ArticleEdwina Currie: ‘The love of my life? Most people who know me would say it’s me’
The former Tory MP and junior health minister on her most unappealing habit and why she never has to buy her own drinks when in BrightonBorn in Liverpool, Edwina Currie, 70, won a scholarship to Oxford...
View ArticleEgg safety – we've cracked it, food watchdog tells Britons
Pregnant women, infants and elderly people told it is now safe for them to eat runny or even raw British eggsPregnant women, babies and elderly people can now safely eat runny or even raw eggs under...
View ArticleThe joy of eggs – how 'nature's multivitamin' shook off the scare stories
Decades of dud healthy-eating guidance sent the humble egg into nutritional exile. But with new advice about runny yolks suggesting that salmonella in raw eggs is a thing of the past, it’s time to lick...
View Article‘Historians’ like Jacob Rees-Mogg only have one character in mind: themselves...
Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson are among the latest politician ‘authors’ who mangle history to flatter their own careers“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it,” Winston Churchill is widely,...
View Article'Thatcher loved it': Spitting Image victims on being lampooned
As the satirical puppets return, Edwina Currie, Neil Kinnock and Ken Livingstone discuss their portrayal in the originalThe junior health minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government was portrayed as a...
View ArticleDon’t call it sleaze, call it corruption – why scandal haunts Boris Johnson’s...
From contracts for mates to flat makeovers and illicit parties, barely a day passes without a crisis at No 10. But using the tabloid language of the 90s doesn’t scratch the surface of this government’s...
View ArticleMatt Hancock could be ‘set for life’ after I’m a Celebrity, says ex-MP
Former health secretary could have his ‘Peter Andre moment’, jungle veteran Lembit Öpik saysUK politics live – latest news updatesMatt Hancock could be “set for life” financially after his appearance...
View ArticleGet Matt Hancock out of here: these are the political diaries worth reading
For windows on the corridors of power that were actually written contemporaneously, read this selection of books by MPs from left and rightThe year’s most disappointing Christmas gift for thousands of...
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