9 Comments

• john 24th Dec '13 - 2:34pm

  Same-sex marriage act, press regulation royal charter and exposure of extent of state spying activities (Snowden etc..) for three off the top of my head.

• Bill le Breton 24th Dec '13 - 3:08pm

  Worth checking but I think latest revision from ONS has restored the double dip.

• Jennie 25th Dec '13 - 7:48am

  Same sex marriage and everyday sexism going mainstream both way more important than Russell Brand’s narcissism in my view. And as I said on twitter, your handwavey dismissal of the very idea that something that affects huge numbers of people is more important than a misogynistic cock with bad hair’s self promotion says more about our political system than anything on your list.

• A C McGregor 25th Dec '13 - 7:52am

  What Jennie said.

  Also: Eastleigh seems so long ago!

• James Brough 25th Dec '13 - 8:21am

  Well, yes. On the one hand, we have something that changes the lives of thousands of people and highlights a sea change in the national attitude to homosexuality in the space of 50 years. On the other hand, we have a man saying ” Ooh, they’re all the same, you can’t trust any of them. Something should be done about it.”

• sfk 25th Dec '13 - 11:21am

  Edward Snowden revelations

  A really significant event occurred recently but not much column inches dedicated to it was the Banking Commission’s masterful hijack of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill.

  To even grasp what went on, you need to look at how the Bill initially started off (about 30 pages) to the comprehensive document we have ended up with.

  Its implications are huge and in some respects go further than sarbannes-oxley but the very process it went through exposes a real triumph for parliamentary scrutiny

• jedibeeftrix 25th Dec '13 - 11:40am

  Snowden
  Germany becoming a EUrosceptic ally

• Geoffrey Payne 26th Dec '13 - 7:43am

  Benefit cuts must be on the list given the number of people affected.
  Arms sales to Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other countries with poor human rights records, surely even more of a scandal than secret courts?
  Scandals from the NHS and the care system where patients are being neglected and abused because of perverse incentives and underfunding.
  The failings of workfare, zero hour contracts, undermining the minimum wage.
  Justin Welby setting up a credit union to put Wonga out of business. I don’t fancy his chances but I admire his ambition. Also the new pope doing what Popes should be doing – showing solidarity with the poor and removing hypocracy in the Catholic Church over this.
  Twitter storm attacks on feminists showing that sexism amongst some men is as strong as ever.
  No one standing up to the USA over their drone attacks on countries that they are not officially at war with.
  Iran elects a new leader who seeks peace with the west.
  North Korea’s leader Kim Jung-un threatens nuclear strikes

• paul barker 26th Dec '13 - 5:48pm

  Equal Marriage obviously & Millibands speech in July calling for Labour Party Reforms. It was soon clear that Milliband lacked even the most basic grasp of Labours history; his reforms would have abolished The Party. The way he handled it ensured that almost all of the Unions would be horrified, the Moderate ones as well as the Left.
  The effect of Millibands Freeze proposal lasted 3 months & has now faded completely.