The Rights Of Man (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Gender Pay Gap and the reasons behind it is one of the biggest anti-male myths going. When Harriet Harman put forward draft legislation in June (link) explaining that there was a need for employers to be able to discriminate...
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Harriet Harman, the U. K. Labour Party’s Deputy Leader, representing a vacationing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the House of Commons recently, was asked if she had designs on the party leadership. Harman joked that if she became prime minister, the nation’s airports would be thronged with men attempting to flee the country. Nobody laughed. Ms. Harman is not only Deputy...
Dave's Part (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Leo McKinstry – one-time Harriet Harman bag carrier, now freelance journo specialising in handwringing potboilers for the right-of-centre press – raises some interesting points about the class background of Britain’s Olympic medallists in the Daily Mail this morning: It seems...
Information Policy (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... some previous action to resolve their issue. Speaking on the ocassion, the House of Commons Leader Harriet Harman said, "The government hopes that the House will endorse this way forward, allowing it to take a significant step forward in helping to promote better engagement with the public". The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) started accepting e-Petitions since November 2006. If the...
The Daily Novel (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... is by no means certain that Miliband would win a Labour Party election. Jack Straw, Alan Johnson, Harriet Harman and Jon Cruddas all have their supporters across the supporter. And there is also the possibility that if the Party decides to have an election some other candidate might emerge, whose name has not been trumpeted by the media. There is no shortage of potential leaders who...
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
…there is not much comparison here with the Number 10 site than the Harriet Harman blog ‘hack’ which was due to a password falling into the wrong hands. As I recall (although happy to be corrected) the, err, login and password which "fell into the wrong hands" were, "Harriet" and "Harman". If true that’s blind idiocy rather [...]
Politics Wales (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... practicable' to keep the post open they can offer a 'suitable alternative'.Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman is thought to be one of the senior ministers championing the plan to extend this period to 12 months.But Chancellor Alistair Darling is said to believe the demands will place too great a pressure on firms.Business Secretary John Hutton is also cautious about the plan.'This...
Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... practicable' to keep the post open they can offer a 'suitable alternative'. Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman is thought to be one of the senior ministers championing the plan to extend this period to 12 months. But Chancellor Alistair Darling is said to believe the demands will place too great a pressure on firms. Business Secretary John Hutton is also cautious about the plan....
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... practicable' to keep the post open they can offer a 'suitable alternative'. Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman is thought to be one of the senior ministers championing the plan to extend this period to 12 months. But Chancellor Alistair Darling is said to believe the demands will place too great a pressure on firms. Business Secretary John Hutton is also cautious about the plan....
Londonist (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Londonist secretly thought that Batman and Robin on Harriet Harman’s house earlier this Summer was pretty funny. Well Fathers 4 Justice are at it again. Entertaining the nation with their mildly subversive protests. Causing a degree of affectionate irritation in those affected. Today’s stunt sees Batman prancing around on a gantry on the M25. We dare say there are a few less than sympathetic...
Jon Worth (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... to what Dizzy insinuates there is not much comparison here with the Number 10 site than the Harriet Harman blog ‘hack’ which was due to a password falling into the wrong hands. It wasn’t a security issue with Wordpress as such (which is used for Harman’s blog). Problem is that you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t with this - use open source software for a high profile...
Phil Slocombe (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
According to the Financial Times , Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, is at loggerheads with Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader and minister for equality, over procurement rules. Apparently, Ms Harman would like those 30 per cent of companies that sell goods and services to the state to "improve their equality". Under the Harman proposals, companies could be awarded...
The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Barbara Kay, National Post: Harriet Harman, the U. K. Labour Party's Deputy Leader, representing a vacationing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the House of Commons recently, was asked if she had designs on the party leadership. Harman joked that if she became prime minister, the nation's airports would be thronged with men attempting to flee the country. Nobody laughed. Ms. Harman...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
It is a year to the day since Mr Hibbert was last allowed to see his eight-year-old daughter, according to Matt O’Connor the founder of Fathers 4 Justice. The group is renowned for staging outlandish protests including scaling the walls of Buckingham Palace and the homes of Government ministers including Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... Canada.He said: "Today’s action is not part of a co-ordinated strategy like the initial protest at Harriet Harman’s house."A lot of fathers want to do their own thing and providing it is peaceful and non-violent direct action we will help them in any way."Mr O’Connor said he became aware that the protest would be taking place on Thursday.He said that the organisation had steered away...
