Good to see that Shami Shakrabarti hasn’t lost her famous sense of humour. Apparently she’s laughed off Andy Burnham’s light-hearted teasing about her and David Davis’s friendship and has, rather cheekily, offered him some makeup tips. Absolutely the right way to handle this sort of thing: laugh it off and make sure no-one can accuse you of taking yourself too seriously.
Er, hang on… this just in.
Shami shares a joke with Andrew Marr
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Thursday 19 June 2008 at 10:07 pm
Gordon Brown is known for his light heartedness is he? Shami was on HIGYFY just the other week anyway.
You can do better Tom.
Thursday 19 June 2008 at 10:43 pm
On HIGYFY she was on the Tory team with that bumptious Old Salopian I. Hislop Esq – not sure what that might mean except that she’s now a few thousand quid up for saying almost nothing…
Thursday 19 June 2008 at 10:49 pm
News just in – turns out Mr H is an Old Ardinian not an Old Salopian, but he’s still just as bumptious…
Friday 20 June 2008 at 10:28 am
Very funny, made me laugh anyway. Of course her threats of writs get away from the central issue – why is she consorting (ooh, err, is that libellous?) with a wannabe hanger? You don’t get a bigger denial of your civil liberties than being hung, do you?
Friday 20 June 2008 at 3:05 pm
It wasn’t exactly a John Sergeant-standard performance on HIGNFY… but of course, she’s not a comedian, she’s the director of Liberty and her litigation threats over a bit of harmless satire are sharing the headlines with the growing democratic disaster in Zimbabwe. She’s shown a poor sense of proportion in a job which needs it.
Friday 20 June 2008 at 3:57 pm
She really was out of her depth in HIGNFY. Just about her only contributions for the first 10 minutes were looks of genuine jaw-dropping shock horror whenever the others made non-PC (ie funny) remarks. Realising the game was up, she then spent the rest of the show just giggling like a schoolgirl at them.
On a more serious note, I’d sooner see really evil world-class mass killers hang than have them turn up one day cracking pleasantries on , say, HIGNFY or BBC Breakfast. I really do not see a civil rights issue there, provided the killers’ identities are beyond any shadow of a doubt.
Friday 20 June 2008 at 11:09 pm
Your “light-hearted teasing” is seen by another persons as a “cheap shot”
Sunday 22 June 2008 at 8:00 pm
i’m with yesbut’s comment above. the woman works her socks off to defend the civil liberties that your revoltingly complacent party has gradually eroded to practically nothing. then she has a bad day and people like you – who whinge on when their own misjudged comments are blown out of proportion – get at her. stunning hypocrisy. you’re not getting my vote again.