In the first vol (1962) of his biography of Nye Bevan, Michael Foot calls Brendan Bracken 'a partly domesticated orang utan'. Twenty years later he called Norman Tebbit 'a semi house-trained polecat.' Maybe there's more somewhere.

Who's the Sir Roy Strong impersonator? He can't be PolicyLaila... can he?

That 'Indeed' ...

James 'Jim' Griffiths, first Secretary of State for Wales, serving from 1964 to 1966 under Harold Wilson.

The benefits fraud initiative in The Thick of It: Sponge Avengers.

He realises as a Health Sec with elections in six months it's better to remind people of Bevan than Lansley.

When The Guardian on Saturday had The Q&A in the magazine, Kemp's answer to the generic 'How would you like to die?' was 'buried at sea'.

I'm not reckless about it but I have no qualms about walking in the rougher parts of cities at night. It's never bothered me even though I'm a Welsh rural country boy. Speaking to crowds doesn't bother me either. I've been on sertraline for over ten years. Don't know where I'd be without it.

Watched all three and will recommend them to all and sundry for quite some time. One aspect stands out. At last some public intellectuals have unequivocally said that the three of them were complete c***s. That shouldn't be a surprise over a hundred years after Lenin's death, but it is.

Oh for sure. It's the sheer (wasted) energy that had to go into the vituperation as well. Ink, paper, posting the letter, keeping the hate alive while awaiting a reply etc. He'd keep a web farm going if he was alive now.

When he says Marx would have "f**king hated me"

I think it was. pressgallery.org.uk/2015/03/06/t...

Caerphilly is Wales? She’s a disingenuous fucker. Can’t be arsed looking it up but I recall her having a Kidwelly connection of some sort.

Yes, it's like a meme Swiss Army knife.

Exactly this. I'm no Nostradamus but completely predictable as well.

Who would have thought they’d say no to Reform and vote in someone local and community minded?

Broken link (which is a blessing probably)

Yes, indeed. A ladder she'd be nothing without.

Have you read her grandparent's origin story? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam