And so, on Yahoo, I spy a headline beginning "Blair proposes new laws". How gobsmacked I am when the areas of crime, terrorism and illegal immigration turn out to be the themes of the proposed legislation. I had expected homelessness, poverty and discrimination...
Justin | Homepage | 11.15.06 - 3:24 pm | #

If you were properly in tune with tough New Labour values, you would know that homelessness, poverty and discrimination are synonymous with crime, terrorism and illegal immigration. Each is all three.
Philip | Homepage | 11.15.06 - 3:51 pm | #

Are you sure it was from Hazel Blears, and not simply the new Department of Hazel Blears set up by John Reid, or his new Interagency Department for the Department of Hazel Blears?
Kieran | Homepage | 11.16.06 - 11:27 am | #

I think it's dangerously naive to suggest that there is some objective way of distinguishing the prose style of a New Labour minister from that of a committee.
Philip Challinor | Homepage | 11.16.06 - 11:52 am | #

"...a rather uninteresting molecule or a particularly unhelpful section of a Tube map..."

Or 'love beads' as the Guardian Diary describes it this morning.
Justin | Homepage | 11.17.06 - 3:42 am | #