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Edwina Currie accused of patronising Paralympians
Former health minister draws condemnation after tweet describing Italian team as 'gorgeous even in wheelchairs'Former health minister Edwina Currie was forced to defend herself against accusations she...
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Edwina Currie's September 2012 diaries – a sneak preview
Enjoying the ex-MP's 'shameless, unflinchingly blunt' diaries? Here's what she might say about this monthThe Daily Mail has been serialising extracts from Edwina Currie's 1992-97 diaries ("shameless,...
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Is there life after politics? | The conversation
Tony Blair is busy brokering multi-billion pound mergers. But what of other ex-ministers? Edwina Currie and Jacqui Smith discuss what to do after WestminsterWhen she left parliament Edwina Currie...
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Girls, please! Talk about putting the 'dire' into diaries | Barbara Ellen
Edwina Currie and Sally Burton are to publish diaries – and they have other women in their sightsIf ever there was a tale of two diaries, it's now. Both Edwina Currie and Sally Burton are to publish...
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Diaries Volume II: 1992-1997 by Edwina Currie - digested read
John Crace reduces Edwina Currie's tales of sexual magnificence and political intrigue to a manageable 400 wordsWell: we won the election and I was offered a job, but I turned it down as it was so...
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Diaries Volume II: 1992-1997 by Edwina Currie – review
Zoe Williams on sideswipes and vitriol in Edwina Currie's diariesThe year is 1992. John Major has just won an election and will become, in due course, the most unpopular prime minister since polling...
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Edwina Currie: My family values
The writer and former minister talks about her familyMy grandfather was a classic pater familias– tough, strong, very loving. He came to the UK aged 16 from Poland. He presided over Sabbath dinners and...
View ArticleVenn worlds collide: the connections between celebrity memoirs
All memoirs have common themes. And some of those from this year, including books by Jack Straw, Kris Jenner and R Kelly, take us effortlessly from Salman Rushdie to Uggie the dogPriya Elan
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Oona King, Tessa Jowell, Angela Eagle and others on sexism in Westminster
The Rennard allegations have put Westminster's sexual politics in the spotlight. So how bad is it? Women who know tell of boozy conferences, wandering hands and the obstacles to complainingGaby...
View ArticleEdwina Currie urges protesters not to disrupt Margaret Thatcher's funeral -...
Former Conservative minister says while demonstrators are free to protest, they should understand how much offence they may cause
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Mail 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...
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MPs 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 itGlenda Jackson, Labour MP...
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John 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...
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Jack 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, The Big Benefits Row, The Bridge; Suits, Inside No 9 and The Big MeltAndrew Collins
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Poverty 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 ArticleSorry, you aren't poor enough to please Ms Currie
Haley Sanderson was reduced to tears by Edwina Currie on 5 live who quizzed the young mother on her spending habitsThe last time I looked, Edwina Currie had still not apologised for her disgraceful...
View ArticleRewind radio: Your Call; Witness; The Interrogation; Professor Hallux's Map...
Listening to Edwina Currie bring a hard-up mother to tears was the low point of a lively week on 5 LiveYour Call (5 Live) | iPlayerWitness (World Service) | iPlayer
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From Goldie to Edwina Currie, leading figures from music, politics, film, charities and the media assess Plan B's directorial debutFounder of Kids Company, a London charity for vulnerable young people
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