At lunch time today, I learned from a tweet that UK Home Secretary, the Right Honorable Jacqui Smith will resign as soon as convenient to the Prime Minister. Most sources seem to cite the now cliched “expenses scandal” as the main reason, but also mention various moments of Home Secretarial chagrin. My initial reaction was one… Read More
Posts Tagged ‘Jacqui Smith’
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 Tags: Home Office, Home Secretary, ID Cards, immigration, Jacqui Smith, media-fueled feeding frenzy, MP, Prime Minister, Scotland United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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I was listening to one of Stephen Fry‘s ‘podgrams’—”Wallpaper“—in which he briefly touched on the idea that the English tend to classify something as ‘pretentious’ if they don’t understand it. It’s a form of defense of tradition or perspective. Intelligence or flamboyance are marked as a personality flaw; people exhibiting uncomfortable behaviour or traits are… Read More
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Tags: abstract, dialogue, ideas, interesting, Jacqui Smith, Stephen Fry, Tony Blair, wine
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Jacqui Smith’s New Immigration Measures are a pointless Gesture…
Technorati Tags: immigration,UK Politics,politics,USA,trans-atlantic,interesting Blogging about politics can be a bit of a mixed bag, so we’ll see how it goes. I want to avoid polarising talk, tabloid tactics, and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Instead, I’d like to discuss the latest raft of changes which seek to make immigrants ‘more British’ before offering them… Read More
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Tags: BBC, Belgium, Britain, Colorado, commentator, Digital, Domenico Depalo, editorial, European Union, Finsbury Park mosque, Franco Peracchi, GBP, Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown's government, headlines and controversial fundamentalist cleric, Home Secretary, horrible, ideas, immigration, immigration services, Jacqui Smith, London, National Statistics Office, OECD, politics, Radio 4, test site, The Star, the Times, United Kingdom, United States
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