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“... it is right for us to take account of that wealth.’ ‘Is the minister suggesting,’ asks Diane Abbott MP, ‘that asylum seekers should sell their jewellery, perhaps their wedding rings, as an alternative to the Government meeting its moral and international responsibilities to provide a reasonable level of support?’ When O’Brien ...”

“... panache’ – but it didn’t matter. He won. Ten years later, he’s prime minister.By 1985, Diane Abbott was tired of parliamentary selections, of being the token Black woman on the shortlist and of being rejected. She applied to Hackney North and Stoke Newington only because her secretary at the film technicians’ union, where she was equality ...”

“... Collective. With contributions by C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, Race Today quickly became (as Diane Abbott put it) ‘required reading for any Black activist’. The collective was the voice of Black liberation in Britain. But its work in defence of minority rights and minority workers made its influence more widely felt: during the 1970s, it played ...”

“... the mere fact of being black or Jewish and a woman is enough to induce apoplexy in some quarters. Diane Abbott is said to attract a high percentage of all threatening and abusive emails on the parliamentary account and so far six people have been convicted of threatening Luciana Berger – more prosecutions are said to be in the pipeline. In 2016 the ...”

“... know-your-place remarks of the sort made by Michael Fallon to Andrea Leadsom, or by David Davis of Diane Abbott. In the 1979 general election, which brought the Conservatives to power under Margaret Thatcher – something Harman describes as an ‘excruciating blow’ – 19 women were elected, the lowest postwar figure aside from the 17 elected in ...”

“... on crime’, the second half of Tony Blair’s formulation having apparently evaporated. Diane Abbott points out that you can talk about the housing and employment crisis of East London without using it as a stick to beat Somalis and Poles. Sadly,the politician to have thought most persuasively and cogently about these issues – Jon Cruddas ...”

“... narratives into the most restrictive of conceptual corsets. Windrush needs more along the lines of Diane Abbott, Britain’s first black woman MP, recalling how her father insisted on carrying a briefcase to parents’ days at her Harrow school: ‘The briefcase was completely empty but, somehow, the briefcase was his armour against the white world.’ Mr ...”

“... parliamentary left. This strategy had worked before: last time round David Miliband nominated Diane Abbott as a candidate. In 2015 they hoped a left candidate would take away support from Andy Burnham, who was what passed for leftish, leaving the door open for Liz Kendall or Yvette Cooper. Enter Jeremy Corbyn stage left. He may not be a charismatic ...”

“... raised barely a third of that in the entire 2024 campaign. When the alleged racist comments about Diane Abbott made by Frank Hester, the CEO of a healthcare software company called the Phoenix Partnership, surfaced earlier this year, the Tories were too broke to return the £10 million he had donated, even if they had wanted to.Labour, by ...”

“... that a better world is possible and we are prepared to fight for it’, in the words of Diane Abbott. The crowd cheered wildly at any mention of increased house-building, a break with neoliberalism, the end of austerity, support for junior doctors, environmentalism, the end of tuition fees, nationalising the railways. But nothing matched the ...”

“... Stieglitz, to whom he took an immediate and intense dislike (he was careful to hide it), Berenice Abbott, who introduced him to the work of an obscure photographer she had discovered in Paris (Atget), Ralph Steiner, Paul Grotz, John Cheever, Ben Shahn and, most important of all, Lincoln Kirstein.Evans always acknowledged the role luck played in his life, and ...”

“... way. They include Charlotte Brontë and stretch to Scott Joplin, Alan Turing, Sylvia Plath and Diane Arbus.On 26 June this year, the paper ran a belated obituary of Valerie Solanas, who died in 1988 and is famous for having shot Andy Warhol twenty years earlier. The year before the shooting, Solanas published the SCUM Manifesto, which began: ‘Life in ...”