Time to un-redact the mother of parliaments
The cry is up – if you have a conscience, if you care about your country’s integrity and decency, you guys, start leaking!
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In Britain, 2014 was the year of the floods, Ukraine saw a revolution, Scotland almost went indy and the deadly Ebola struck west Africa.
The cry is up – if you have a conscience, if you care about your country’s integrity and decency, you guys, start leaking!
News that one of my fellow male presenters in Australia managed to wear the same suit for a year without anyone noticing has set me thinking about my own wardrobe.
The parents of Stuart Gordon, who died of cystic fibrosis, have steadfastly fundraised for Dr Anil Mehta in his search for a cure – and now there is real hope for young sufferers.
Imagine my excitement on learning there were tapes of Mrs Thatcher’s handbagging of Ronald Reagan after the US invasion of Grenada. But in fact she hardly gets a word in.
As America descends into Ebola panic, the bravery of those on Africa’s front line sticks out.
With her passing a certain kind of style and age has passed. I feel lucky to have known her.
We might have been sitting in an undertaker’s waiting room. Something was afoot. You could have cut the air with a knife.
Constitutional reform proposals are flooding out of No. 10 (without much consultation it seems) in the wake of the Scottish referendum. So is now the time for much needed House of Lords reform?
The referendum campaign has been an intoxicating democratic exercise in democracy. It represented something of a revolt against the Westminster elite.
The polls have closed and the votes are being counted. Should Scotland be an independent country? That was the question for the Scottish people: tonight, overnight, we will find out the answer.
A simple majority in this referendum will decide whether Britain breaks up or not – and our legislature will have had no say whatever in what could be a major constitutional change.
It was the mid-1970s. In my taxi, alongside Ian Paisley, I’d got a clean sweep of some of Northern Ireland’s most hostile political rivals.
Have we learned from 9/11? From my own experience reporting sporadically across the region for over three decades, my fear is that we have not.
Iran’s Chief Negotiator Abbas Araghchi tells me that there is a genuine negotiating bond of respect with the United States, but the negotiations are hard.