Chris Bryant



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 * How can a country as wealthy as Britain need so many food banks? And what can we do about it? - Our man in the corridors of power says that supermarkets should give a much greater proportion of their unused food waste to charity instead of landfill - 1st December 2012
 * Leveson was right to worry that MPs are part of the problem. We are bound at the hip to the press - Leveson's proposals were not "bonkers", they were nuanced and level headed, but will the politicians - nevermind the press - be brave enough to act - 30th November 2012
 * Tourism is one of our biggest industries, so why does it employ so few Brits? - Save our tourism industry, plus why abstinence education is daft and from Russia without love - 23rd November 2012
 * On Police Commissioners, you turned out in your hundreds to vote - but what were you voting for? - Labour's MP for Rhondda on voter turnout, women bishops, and why we've got to get the balance between Parliament and courts right in deporting Abu Qatada - 17th November 2012
 * Don’t bash the BBC too much. You know you’ll miss it when it’s gone - Even Chris Patten, the chairman of the BBC, sounds deeply downbeat about the future - 10th November 2012
 * Yes, I voted to cut the EU budget - like I said I would when Europe Minister. What's wrong with that? - Our man in the Commons on Cameron's defeat, regulating the press, the Queen's crush on Daniel Craig, and a revelatory admissions interview in Oxford - 3rd November 2012
 * Some of us hoped that a hung parliament would give the Commons some oomph. But sadly not - On how, under the Coalition, view expressed in the House don't seem to matter; and what else is David Cameron hiding from Leveson? - 27th October 2012
 * It does religion no favours when you have to say grace not once, but twice - Many people and places still follow religious traditions - but sometimes take them too far - 20th October 2012
 * Like an agitated 15th century Pope, David Cameron revered to 'Flashman' type in PMQs today - Our columnist asked a simple question in the Chamber earlier today. The answer he received was pure obfuscation. What does that say about the Tory leader? - 18th October 2012
 * Vladimir Putin must find it hilarious that David Cameron won’t back Europe on Russia’s abuses - In his latest dispatch our columnist reports from a George Michael concert and has some advice for Andrew 'Thrasher' Mitchell, the under fire Tory MP - 13th October 2012
 * Ed Miliband's One Nation conference speech was political transvestism at it's most stylish - Anyone half-worth electing has stolen their opponents' clothes, but for transvestism not to collapse into drag, it must be sustained and convincing - 6th October 2012
 * A Political Life: Knocking on doors, you learn that impression, not detail, is what matters - This week I found myself having a long conversation with somebody who didn't like Michael Gove. Explaining he's a Tory and I'm not didn't seem to help - 29th September 2012
 * The ‘reality’ of the Valleys bears no resemblance to what MTV wants to show. Just ask those who live there - Stereotypes of the Welsh do enough harm already. Do we really need another pastiche of a proud people in the form of this new 'reality' television series? - 22nd September 2012
 * The new Knights of the Order of the Boot, and why I'm worried about David Cameron - Is Cameron too butch? - 8th September 2012
 * Our hypocrisy makes life even tougher for disabled people who work - Somehow "idiot" was never enough. If you really wanted to be abusive, it was "spastic", "cretin", "moron" or "mong". That, of course, was way back when - 1st September 2012
 * Westminster is up in arms, petulant and splenetic. What will the voters think? - I have never known parliament to reek of acrid fuming quite as much as now - 14th July 2012
 * Bishops – stick a mitre on them and strange things begin to happen - Just take their stance on women - 7th July 2012
 * All the pillars of our establishment are failing - Parliament most of all - I'm not a fan of cynicism. I prefer to remember that when Pandora opened her mythical box (or jar, for the classicists among you), all the evil of the world tumbled out uncontrollably, but at the bottom of the box lay the spirit of hope. But, by Nora, it's getting difficult to be optimistic at the moment - 30th June
 * Lord this, Lady that...class-obsessed job titles that belong in the Middle Ages - A parliamentary quiz for you. What do Norton-sub-Hamdon, Eaton-under-Heywood and Hinton Blewett have in common? - 23rd June 2012
 * Mental illness among MPs is nothing new - For all the government initiatives, we still know remarkably little about mental health - 16th June 2012
 * The trip to Lebanon that showed me how vulnerable civilisations can be - There was a minor miracle in Beirut this week – the first ever comprehensive street map of the city was published - 9th June 2012
 * Consistency is overrated but too many U-turns just demoralises the troops - It has been a week of U-turns. Three of them in four days - 2nd June 2012
 * Why do civil servants still get honours when so many exceptional people don't? - 26th May 2012
 * We're being saddled with a daft American-style policing idea nobody wants - Democracy for sale is bad enough, but policing for sale gives me the collywobbles - 19th May 2012
 * The Queen's Speech: an ossified ceremony that is nothing more than a big lie - I hate the Queen's Speech. I don't specifically mean this week's one, although it was a pretty flimsy, cowardly, empty calling card of a thing - 12th May 2012
 * The naked and the dead – just a couple of the things you meet while canvassing - Canvassing is one of the strangest things in the world. We knock on strangers' doors, or ring them on the phone and ask them whether and how they vote - 5th May 2012
 * Tory backbenchers vouch loyalty to Hunt - The mushroom cloud that is Rupert Murdoch is still hanging over Westminster - 28th April 2012
 * Bradford shows that despite Cameron's failings, Labour still has a mountain to climb - 31st March 2012



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 * I'm a victim of Russian smear campaign, says MP photographed in underwear. The Telegraph, 23rd November 2012



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