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Women's rights and a bonfire of the vanities

Have we really got such short memories? Do we need to be reminded why book-burning is a bad idea? Apparently so, because a women’s refuge in the north east has announced that it will be making a bonfire of copies of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey and there... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Farewell then, Mrs Mensch

Louise Mensch may be the first of the shiny ‘A list’ MPs to throw in the parliamentary towel but she won’t be the last. I predict the glamorous MP for Corby, who has just announced she is standing down, will be at the forefront of a steady stream of 2010... Continue reading

Posted Aug 6, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Crippling the economy with more red tape is morally wrong

What planet is this government on? Specifically, in which galactic space federation was David Gauke resident before Scotty beamed him down to make absurd pronouncements on the British economy? The Exchequer Secretary, who has to my knowledge said nothing requiring a newspaper headline until now, has broken his career-defining silence... Continue reading

Posted Jul 24, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Spare me the plastic rural idyll, Mr Boyle, please

This Olympic opening ceremony. Are we sure we want it to feature live horses, cows and sheep? I’m just asking because there’s probably still time to scrap the whole idea and whip up a show featuring, oh, I don’t know, Morris dancers and football hooligans, say. As things stand, an... Continue reading

Posted Jul 18, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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A letter of complaint from St George's...

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is upset by an article I wrote complaining about my treatment there. You may remember I expressed sympathy with the parents of Kane Gorny, who died of dehydration in St George’s Hospital, Tooting, in May 2009. A coroner last week found that his death was... Continue reading

Posted Jul 17, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Stop HS2 - and start proper rail improvements

Have David Cameron and Nick Clegg put the Coalition back on track with their announcement of a £9billion investment in Britain’s railways? Well, they could have done, if they hadn’t also committed to spend three times that amount on another rail project called High Speed 2. Shucks, they could have... Continue reading

Posted Jul 16, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Someone should go to prison for what happened to Kane

I’m reading about the shocking verdict into the death of poor Kane Gorny from my bed. I’ve also recently been in St George’s Hospital, Tooting, where Mr Gorny, 22, died of thirst due to incompetent and uncaring staff. I know first hand the sort of cruelty he suffered. I was... Continue reading

Posted Jul 13, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Scientology cruises for a bruising

How tolerant, compassionate and benevolent is The Church of Scientology? Is it anything like the scary caricatures often painted of it? Or has it suffered a terrible injustice in the way it has been portrayed in the media and by those who have jumped ship to tell tawdry tales? Well,... Continue reading

Posted Jul 2, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Ed gets tough on immigration. I wonder why?

What a turn-up for the books. Ed Miliband has vowed to tackle the problem of foreign workers taking “British” jobs and to clamp down on uncontrolled immigration. I would like to say amen to that. Well done, Mr Miliband. But, guess what, it’s not that simple. A few weeks ago,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 22, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Cancel or compensate. Cameron's choice on HS2

The proposed high speed rail link between London and Birmingham is effectively dead, according to a Tory minister. So says The Spectator, whose cover story this week is an intriguing behind-the-scenes account of how the project has hit the buffers. Only a vainglorious, empty and deluded government could propose a... Continue reading

Posted Jun 14, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Dave will never be decisive. He's a natural u-turner

How many more u-turns can Cameron and Osborne afford to do? It’s an interesting question. Tory MPs are increasingly asking it after a series of policy gaffes, culminating in three u-turns in the past four days. The Coalition has now turned round on so many proposals that they are beginning... Continue reading

Posted Jun 1, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Let Hammond call himself a pikey if he wants to

Just checking. I want to be absolutely sure. Is it really the case that I’m not allowed to say ‘pikey’? An Irish traveller group has accused the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond of racism after he used the word ‘pikey’ in a magazine column. They claimed the word was the... Continue reading

Posted May 31, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Cameron, the fruit ninja reality dodger

What hope for Britain’s future growth is there if even the Prime Minister sits on his iPad playing silly games? It is bad enough that we have bred a generation of young people addicted to daft digital pursuits, from the detestably stupid Facebook FarmVille to the unspeakably tragic iPhone BogeyFlicker... Continue reading

Posted May 21, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Put your life in an iCloud? You must be iMad

In the future, people will no longer store sensitive information on iClouds. That will be old fashioned technology, considered not only dated but also dangerously insecure, reckless even. There will be something far more ingenious, more intuitive, more responsive on which to store and transfer data than iClouds, or email,... Continue reading

Posted May 18, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Olympic Games are not much fun so far

I’m dreading the Olympics. There, I’ve said it. Like many other Londoners who won’t admit it for fear of being shunned for unpatriotic behaviour, I’m not bursting with pride and excitement right now. I’m wondering whether to go on holiday and brave the chaos at Heathrow, or stay at home... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Imagine Thatcher saying 'I'd like to do more'?

Has David Cameron given up, either on this Coalition, or on ruling full stop? If he is still full of fight, this is an astonishingly lame Queen’s Speech. There was hardly anything in it, apart from a few feeble nods to the modernism he once stood for – more parental... Continue reading

Posted May 9, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Bring back Blair? Not quite, but he sure beats Ed

Tony Blair is to re-enter the earth's political atmosphere, apparently, because after five years in exile he has "things to say". This is a according to a spokesman who informs us that Blair is to appoint a new spin doctor. The obvious point, I suppose, is that if Mr Blair... Continue reading

Posted May 3, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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This is no time to relax, Mr Cameron

The Coalition had not long been formed when it emerged that a very curious thing was going on. Cabinet meetings had been moved to flexible hours so David Cameron and Nick Clegg could take their children to school sometimes. Mr Clegg said it was symbolic of the new politics that... Continue reading

Posted Apr 24, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Give more benefit in the form of food, not less

A clampdown on free school meals has angered anti-poverty campaigners who oppose the shake-up in the welfare system. I disagree with the proposed restriction on free meals for a different reason. Last night as I sat in a restaurant, a gang of children, about eight of them, all aged in... Continue reading

Posted Apr 19, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Red Ken mourns death of Bin Laden - naturally

For a prospective Mayor of London there is a lot to worry about right now. Crime and anti-social behaviour is a big problem in the capital, as is the cost of housing and transport, while the economy badly needs stimulating. Ken Livingstone, however, appears to be more worried about why... Continue reading

Posted Apr 18, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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The countryside is rugged - get over it!

The proposal to ban stiles on Dartmoor – because walkers are becoming too fat to get over them - is deeply depressing. They are set to be abolished under plans to make the National Park’s 450 miles of footpaths and bridleways more “accessible”. We’ve had this sort of thing before.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 13, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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No faith, hope or charity as Osborne attacks the rich

The phrase “cutting your nose off to spite your face” springs to mind every time George Osborne opens his mouth at the moment. It’s hard to think of a bigger own goal than the Government clamping down on charitable giving. But, in the blind panic that has gripped the Coalition... Continue reading

Posted Apr 11, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Sneer at the super-rich's 10%? We must be mad

So, some of the richest people in Britain are only paying 10% of their income a year in tax, eh? Well, there are two ways of looking at that. You could affect to be outraged, as George Obsorne is doing, in a pathetic attempt to pander to the Lib Dems.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 10, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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Are we really this angry because a woman likes herself?

The Samantha Brick saga is fascinating for what it tells us about human nature. Clearly, the reason people are so angry with her is that she has dared to suggest that she quite likes herself. Her self-belief is just a little too much for our tastes. The degree of astonishment... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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The party's over for funding by flunkies

I bet David Cameron is furious. He did not know he was engulfing himself in a sleaze storm when he retained the services of one Peter Cruddas in his fund-raising team. Neither will he have known he was engulfing himself in a sleaze storm the last time he had a... Continue reading

Posted Mar 26, 2012 at Mail Online - Melissa Kite

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