Topic: Simon Heffer

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The secret world of gang slang

The murder of teenager Marvin Henry in a gang brawl last week elicited an outpouring of emotion in his Mill Hill community. they were peppered with words such as "liccle" and "peak" - street slang terms in common usage among London's gang ...

RULES BRITANNICA

The article focuses on the law and order in Great Britain. No w, HAL G. P. COLEB ATCH adds another plantation 's worth as he pr;les Britain' s slide into the abys s. COM February 2009 49 Britain under the pres-ent ...

Journalist may challenge MP exposed in expenses row

The scandal over lawmakers' expenses took a new twist Tuesday when the associate editor of the newspaper that broke the story said he might challenge one of the exposed MPs at the next election.Simon Heffer of the Daily Telegraph, which has ...

Enough Twittering - I need to Spotify

No sooner have we trundled onto the internet superhighway than we realise that there is always something revving up in the fast lane waiting to overtake us.. As the person who still keeps a square television and a cast-iron fax machine on ...

Worth a look

Simon Heffer says politicians are in denial: the public sector has to be cut.A magnificent Hoggart sketch on Gordon Brown and David Cameron's press conferences.Kevin Maguire urges Brown to take on British tax havens.John Reid explains (to Michael ...

Not very toothsome

"Welcome to the very first edition of Right On, the new politics show that has a good lunch and then speaks its mind," With him are Ann Widdecombe, Scottie terrier brooch twinkling, and the Telegraph "assitant" (sic) editor Andrew Pierce. Everyone is ...

Diary

#183; It's proving difficult to write this stuff today because we are so excited about the prospect of defence questions in the Commons next Monday. #183; More news of Simon Heffer, sage of the Daily Telegraph, who has been endeavouring, via ...

LETTERS

Paper warsFrom Ken LivingstoneSir: I find it bizarre that the editor of the London Evening Standard should labour under the illusion that I am proposing to put a statue of Nelson Mandela On the last empty plinth in Trafalgar Square' (Diary, 22 ...

Politics of decency

The film industry, like the media generally, tends to attract people on the left of centre, some anxious to peddle their beliefs, others merely and instinctively slanting it their way on the assumption that everybody thinks like them except for some rednecks ...