Labour MP Harriet
Harman has told BBC News that the string of allegations of sexual abuse and
harassment against MPs is not a witch hunt.
She said: "There are a lot of men saying this has been
blown out of all proportion, it's a witch hunt. No, it's not a witch hunt, it's
long overdue."
Harman was born Harriet Ruth Harman at 108 Harley Street in London,
to Anna Harman (née Spicer), a solicitor, married to a Harley Street physician John
Bishop Harman. Her parents each had non-conformist backgrounds – her grandfather,
an ophthalmic surgeon Nathaniel Bishop Harman, was a prominent Unitarian and the
Spicer family were well known Congregationalists. Her aunt was Elizabeth Pakenham,
Countess of Longford, and her cousins include writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Rachel
Billington, and Thomas Pakenham. Harman is a great-great niece of Joseph Chamberlain
and is also related to Richard Chamberlain.
As a rule, men’s
station determines their occupation without their gifts determining their
station. Thus stifled ability in the lower orders, and apathy or pampered
incapacity in the higher, unite to deprive society of its natural leaders.
George Santayana - The Life of Reason (1905-1906)
And yet:
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Obnoxious person.
ReplyDeleteEntitlement personified.
ReplyDeleteSackers - at the time people were amazingly superficial.
ReplyDeleteJames - and useless.
Sam - yes but the lesson is never learned.