By Subject: POLITICAL LIFE
Party politics, MPs, Activists
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- Letter: Honest answers, by L H Green
- Peer rebukes Archbishop
- Galbraith libelled: newspaper to pay
- Express to pay damages: to former Minister
- Vassall affair apology: High Court of Justice: Queen’s Bench Division
- Vassall case damages for MP
- Homosexuals – should the law be changed?
- Letter: birth control, by G H L Buxton
- Ballot-winning M.P. to bring in sex Bill: Wolfenden findings
- A not-so—charitable fellow!
- “Don’t get well” letter
- ‘Charitable’ letter for Sir Cyril
- A ‘charitable chap’ writes . . .
- A ‘charitable fellow’ writes to Sir Cyril
- A “charitable fellow” writes to Sir Cyril
- Tory will introduce homosexual Bill
- Ballot-winning M.P. to bring in sex Bill: Wolfenden findings
- Vice law for Commons, by Victor Knight
- Tories ‘sweep the pool’ for private Bills
- MP fights for homosexuals
- Majority favour change in law on homosexuality
- New bid at vice reform
- Ministers in a dilemma on abortion reform
- Homosexuals: three cases for reform, by Nicholas Tomalin
- Mr Grimond shows the way: spotlight on politics, by Matthew Coady
- Grimond supports reform: homosexuality
- Letter: homosexuals and the law, by William Shepherd, MP
- MP’s Bill to allow abortion
- Lincoln M.P. supports Tory’s Bill
- Reform Bills in Commons
- Besell on homoes law: exclusive statement
- Move by MP to block bill on homosexuality
- MP’s move to halt Bill
- Move to block homosexuality Bill
- Letter: debate on homosexuality, by A J Ayer, C H Rolph, Antony Grey
- Doctors make grave charges against public men
- Time now for firmness
- (quote from Viscount Montgomery on homosexuality during Lords debate)
- Letter: a blackmailers’ charter’, by Antony Grey
- Letter: liberal – and a Tory – vision, by Tim Keigwin
- M.P.'s bill is published
- Grimond helps sex bill
- Tory M.P.s’ bill on homosexual law reform
- Grimond joins campaign
- MPs back new bill
- By a short head
- Letter: vote please Mr Johnson, by R J Groves
- Letter: homosexuality, by R J Groves
- MPs get a mystery ‘whip’
- Tories make secret move against change in homosexual law, by Nora Beloff
- Tory M.P.s admit unofficial ‘whip’against sex bill
- M.P.s regret error in whip
- Tory opponents of homosexual bill modify their line
- Bath M.P. intervenes in sex bill debate
- County MPs oppose Bill on homosexuals
- Young Liberals and law change
- Cordle slams bill on homosexuals
- Sir Gerald against homosexual law reform
- Repeal this blackmailer’s charter, urges Strauss
- In two places at once!
- Dr. Kerr tells MP ‘claptrap’
- (quote from MP Sir Cyril Osborne in Commons debate)
- MP slams homosexual bill: first opposition speaker at second reading: ‘defeat for sound moral principles’
- Sex bill move by MP
- City MP’s move on sex bill
- “No intention of resigning” – MP
- Sir Spencer opposes Bill concerned with homosexuality
- Report from Westminster, by John L Hunt, M.P. for Bromley
- M.P. against sex Bill
- Three local MPs did not vote
- My week in Parliament, by James Wellbeloved M.P. for Erith and Crayford
- Morality questions: a halt must be called: Lady Gammans, MP on the “ slide downhill”
- Morals and the law, by Norman St. John Stevas
- Letter; homosexuality: reformer criticises Bournemouth MP, by Antony Grey
- M.P. attacks homosexual bill: Mr Cordle says why he voted against it
- Sexual Offences Bill
- headline missing
- Letter: homosexuality: MP’s remarks ‘refreshing’
- Society and reform of sex law
- (MP William Clark ‘s amendment to Humphry Berkeley’s Sexual Offences Bill)
- Belfast Surgeon-M.P. speaks his mind on moral questions
- Churches ‘fail’ on social problems
- Letter: homosexuality, by 50 Years a Tory
- Third round debate
- Letter: crime and sin, by Miss Dinah Hall
- Letter: in favour of reform, by Allan Horsfall
- Sir Alec admires, by Ian Sproat
- Letter: hold back from hasty judgement
- Macleod attacks abstain threat
- ‘Liberal’ Tory expects to lose votes: controversy over sex bill, by Roland Gribben
- TV censorship “impossible”
- Morals and opinions, by Mari Kuttna
- Bill lapses
- Blame for defeat, says former MP
- Unseated Tory tells party to blame him
- Letter: this should be Labour’s course, by Kendrick Jones
- Liberals in sex bill talks
- (untitled article: as story in Scotsman dated 16.5.66)
- Bill to help Borders is M.P.’s choice
- ‘Lucky’ MP is looking for a cause, by Marna Price
- Let’s find a worthy cause for Mr Steel to pursue
- The Reason why
- Abortion . . .by the wife of the man behind the Bill, by Mamie Crichton
- Labour MP backs sex bill move
- Why the MP backs abortion
- Sir Cyril splutters with passion over ‘this dirty Bill’ . . . and they laugh and they laugh
- New M.P. helps introduction of Sexual Offences Bill
- A dirty Bill, says Sir Cyril
- Letter: homosexual vote not decisive: abstention by members, by Cyril Osborne
- Mr. Berkeley accuses MP of ‘disguising his views’ on law reform: statement on sex offences bill brings attack
- I went in wring lobby
- Bessell’s vote about homosexuals
- Labour official says criticism of MP unfounded
- Letter: thanks to M.P., by J Sinclair
- Letter: homosexuals – that vote, by T S Roseveare
- Abortion and divorce discussed by Liberals
- Obscenity law maybe meaningless – M.P.
- M.P. calls sex novel ‘filthy’
- This ‘brutal, filthy’ book
- Publisher M.P. says: ‘I’m horrified at this brutal and filthy book’: magistrate asked to ban the Brooklyn novel on drug-taking
- My compassion was aroused, woman publisher says: defence deny novel is obscene
- M.P. says book is ‘brutal, filthy muck’
- Stormy evening
- Red duster lobby blow to Abse’s bill, by James Margach
- Mr Abse replies to seaport critics
- Bench orders book to be destroyed
- A book that went too far
- ‘Last Exit’ ruled to be obscene: seized copies to be destroyed
- Mr. Parkyn to see P.M. today
- Liberal’s reply on sex bills
- Homosexuality: the Labour reactionaries
- The homosexual in society today
- Reform that doesn’t go far enough
- Homosexuals
- Sex bill M.P. wants ban on adverts
- ‘Gay bachelor’ ad read to MPs: Home Secretary’s advice sought: Sir Cyril worried by ‘publication of lists of homosexuals
- M.P. hits at “gay bachelor” adverts
- MPs told of ‘homosexual’ adverts
- Bill is blackmailers’ charter, MPs told
- Homosexual bill a ‘blackmail charter’: full responsibility on govt. if it goes through – M.P.
- Bill is blackmailers’ charter says Q.C.
- Home office assurance on law relating to homosexual lists
- Sir Gerald’s attitude to this “odious topic”
- This is filthiest of filthy lucre – M.P.
- Move to ban lists of known homosexuals
- Promotion
- MP demands ‘publish names of homosexual bill supporters’ – 85 majority on third reading
- Nabarro speech: speaker to rule
- M.P.s’s remark to Faulds: ‘we know things about you’
- Bernard Levin: a contest of clowns
- The inside page: Mr. Faulds, MP, and his ‘fairly vulgar’ observations
- Dangers of sexual offences bill – MP
- Parkyn was for ‘vital social measure’
- M.P. in clash with home secretary
- M.P. stands by vote on bill
- ‘Repression is not the solution’: homosexuality motion for debate
- MP support voting at eighteen
- Take that, you right honourable member for *nether wallop!
- Non-party
- Homosexual, abortionist, pornographic gambling hell: England’s peril, by Sir Cyril
- Homosexuals ‘intimidated’
- Champion of lost causes
- Letter; ‘Explain it please councillor’, by Dr. Guy Wilson
- ‘Sexual freedom a good thing’
- Sex and violence vital to our make up: believes councillor Fred Lunn
- Personal freedom ‘eroded’