Hansard gems: when is a dog really a cow?
When Parliament gets involved, of course. Step forward Arthur Champion in May 1956, Labour MP for South East Derbyshire. … Read the full post »
Read about some of the stranger things I have found when reading Hansard, the official record of what happens in Parliament.
When Parliament gets involved, of course. Step forward Arthur Champion in May 1956, Labour MP for South East Derbyshire. … Read the full post »
It’s 2003. Parliament is debating foreign surveillance. The then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, is debating a point with Liberal Democrat MP David Heath. … Read the full post »
It’s February 1940. The country is at war. The question of the moment: inter-species enmity. … Read the full post »
Mr. Skinner To ask the Minister for the Civil Service how many civil servants in employment at the latest date are (a) men or (b) women. … Read the full post »
July 1982, and what’s on the mind of Conservative MP Harvey Proctor? Angle-poised lamps of course. … Read the full post »
In (partial) fairness to the government department concerned, this featuring minister Tony Newton, Lord President of the Council, is from May 1994. … Read the full post »
One for the lawyers and paperclip fans today, this time from Hansard in January 1998. It’s Liberal Democrat thinker and historian Conrad Russell at work. … Read the full post »
This extract from Hansard of January 1989 is sufficiently clear, it hardly needs further explanation. … Read the full post »
Sometimes Parliament turns its mind to predicting the bovine future, as happened in March 1973. … Read the full post »
The government never sleeps, or so it would seem from this answer to Parliamentary questions from Hansard, April 1996. … Read the full post »