There’s been plenty of attention for the Education Secretary of late, so we thought it might be time to unearth this somewhat bizarre interview that Gove conducted as part of a 1992 show called “A stab in the dark”, which also starred David Baddiel.
We post the interview without comment – other than to apologise for the slight gap between the audio and video:
This Christmas hundreds of couples across the country will be getting engaged; it’s a traditional time of year to pop the question. However, the sparkle of diamonds will no doubt be dwarfed by the romantic offer of a £200 per year tax break for married couples courtesy of the Government. The marriage tax break is the most preposterous suggestion of how to set fire to a fistful of five pound notes – £700 million in fact. The Chancellor announced yesterday […]
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How do you even begin to write about the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela? So many words will be written about the man, so many attempts to define what it was that made him great, to set him in his historical context and to talk of the struggle that he embodied. But any words we might have to describe him are too small – because next to him we are all so small. He was the colossus of 21st […]
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Every Christmas Eve, my Dad would take us kids to the West End of London. We had traditions that came and went – the windows at Selfridges, Hamley’s grotto, carols around the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, chips from McDonalds and a bus along Regent Street to see the lights. One tradition on which we never wavered was to spent 30 minutes at the permanent vigil outside the South African embassy to express our solidarity with the cause of the […]
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As the world remembers Nelson Mandela’s life and legacy, here’s his clever, touching – and funny – speech to Labour Party conference:
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Former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela has died aged 95. Widely regarded as the “father of the nation” in South Africa and venerated internationally for his role in ending the racist apartheid regime, Mandela will be mourned by millions around the world. Mandela rose to prominence as a founding member of the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANC) and was a leader during the 1952 Defiance Campaign. Initially committed to non-violent actions he […]
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