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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 12/09/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 12 September 2011 The DUP education minister has just been dragged into the late 1990s, finally sanctioning a pair of slacks for double maths. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Naomi Long — DisMember

In 2011, Naomi Long was stonewalled over sexist dress codes. Today, the DUP is finally letting schoolgirls wear slacks.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026

25 years after the horrific terror attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember the New Yorkers we lost and honor the extraordinary heroism and selflessness that carried our city forward.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….

diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 11/09/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 11 September 2018 Lecturing the constabulary to arrest their way out of a crisis is splendid sport in opposition, but an impotent strategy in government. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Wes Streeting — DisMember

As Shabana Mahmood begs police to clear masked vigilantes from the streets, Wes Streeting's 2018 bravado rings hollow.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 15/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Powell reads the Government its own defence statements until they confess against each other — a capability for nothing in particular and everything in general — six weeks before a different speech ended his career. dismember.co.uk/classic/enoc...

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Enoch Powell — Classic DisMember

Powell reads the Government its own defence statements until they confess against each other — a capability for nothing in particular and everything in general — six weeks before a different speech en...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 12/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Baldwin examines every investment a minister might innocently hold, finds each one a scandal-in-waiting, and concludes the only safe course is lending your money to the Soviet Government. dismember.co.uk/classic/stan...

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Stanley Baldwin — Classic DisMember

Baldwin examines every investment a minister might innocently hold, finds each one a scandal-in-waiting, and concludes the only safe course is lending your money to the Soviet Government.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 11/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Bright tells the landed interest their Corn Law creates nothing and blights everything — and that Peel, their own leader, will be the one to bury it. The potato blight made him a prophet within six months. dismember.co.uk/classic/john...

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John Bright — Classic DisMember

Bright tells the landed interest their Corn Law creates nothing and blights everything — and that Peel, their own leader, will be the one to bury it. The potato blight made him a prophet within six mo...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 09/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Cook sets thirty ministerial letters denying the guidelines had changed beside the desk officer who resigned rather than draft another — and invites the House to consider whether the resignations stopped at the right grade. dismember.co.uk/classic/robi...

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Robin Cook — Classic DisMember

Cook sets thirty ministerial letters denying the guidelines had changed beside the desk officer who resigned rather than draft another — and invites the House to consider whether the resignations stop...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 08/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Blair costs Redwood's £5 billion of waste against a royal yacht and a prime ministerial spaceship for bilaterals with the planet Portillo — and the joke outlived the entire Cabinet it described. dismember.co.uk/classic/tony...

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Tony Blair — Classic DisMember

Blair costs Redwood's £5 billion of waste against a royal yacht and a prime ministerial spaceship for bilaterals with the planet Portillo — and the joke outlived the entire Cabinet it described.

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Niall Devitt @historyniall.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Fab site- I use historical Hansard in my books a lot.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 07/08/2026

Thank you Niall! I'd love to hear what you think about it once you've tried it some more 👍

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 06/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Bevin, handed dictatorial powers over British labour, explains that the secret of wartime output is not using them — and that the real slackers in the munitions economy are the managements. dismember.co.uk/classic/erne...

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Ernest Bevin — Classic DisMember

Bevin, handed dictatorial powers over British labour, explains that the secret of wartime output is not using them — and that the real slackers in the munitions economy are the managements.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 05/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Attlee greets the recognition of Franco with a legal demolition and a phrase that outlived the debate — half truths are worse than lies — five weeks before Madrid fell and five months before the logic reached Poland. dismember.co.uk/classic/clem...

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Clement Attlee — Classic DisMember

Attlee greets the recognition of Franco with a legal demolition and a phrase that outlived the debate — half truths are worse than lies — five weeks before Madrid fell and five months before the logic...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 04/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Amery, from Chamberlain's own city and tribe, reaches for Cromwell's words to the Long Parliament — in the name of God, go — and within three days the government of Britain, and the direction of the war, had changed. dismember.co.uk/classic/leo-...

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Leo Amery — Classic DisMember

Amery, from Chamberlain's own city and tribe, reaches for Cromwell's words to the Long Parliament — in the name of God, go — and within three days the government of Britain, and the direction of the w...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 03/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Thatcher's thunderous "No. No. No." thrilled her party, prophesied thirty years of European agony, and lit the fuse that blew up her own premiership within the month. dismember.co.uk/classic/marg...

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Margaret Thatcher — Classic DisMember

Thatcher's thunderous "No. No. No." thrilled her party, prophesied thirty years of European agony, and lit the fuse that blew up her own premiership within the month.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 02/08/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Macaulay informs the House that a Jew may finance the sovereigns of Europe but not sit among the members for boroughs he could buy outright — and that a Christianity needing intolerance for support is being insulted by its defenders. dismember.co.uk/classic/thom...

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Thomas Babington Macaulay — Classic DisMember

Macaulay informs the House that a Jew may finance the sovereigns of Europe but not sit among the members for boroughs he could buy outright — and that a Christianity needing intolerance for support is...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 31/07/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Ramsay MacDonald defends cutting the dole to the party that has just expelled him for it — 'I have known you of old' — ten days before the markets took sterling off gold and made the sacrifice moot. dismember.co.uk/classic/rams...

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Ramsay MacDonald — Classic DisMember

MacDonald defends cutting the dole to the party that has just expelled him for it — 'I have known you of old' — ten days before the markets took sterling off gold and made the sacrifice moot.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Well feel free to put any experts in this area who you think might be interested my way! As you can see I'm very keen to engage with anyone who can help with this and who is interested in using it :)

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 31/07/2026

That's a very good point and it's something I thought about quite a lot. You sound like you're a bit of an expert on this stuff! Have you had a play with the interface to see what you think of it?

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Just personal at the moment but if other people want to get involved I'd be happy to talk them through what I've done and get their input. The process is quite complicated and I do intend to write it all up one day but just haven't got round to it yet!

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Hi James. I am just an individual behind this and I have no real agenda beyond trying to surface good material from the history of the UK parliament. Based in the UK. I've been passionate about politics for 35 years and have been involved in the past with the Lib Dems although no longer am.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 30/07/2026

DisMember - Classic Parliament Churchill, cited as a witness against himself, testifies happily for his 1911 vintage and leaves the House the definition it never returned: democracy as the worst form of government except all the others. dismember.co.uk/classic/wins...

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Winston Churchill — Classic DisMember

Churchill, cited as a witness against himself, testifies happily for his 1911 vintage and leaves the House the definition it never returned: democracy as the worst form of government except all the ot...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 29/07/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Benn welcomes the no-lame-ducks Government to the subsidy business with £42 million for Rolls-Royce 'subject to a further check on the figures' — the reckoning arrived eleven weeks later, in the form of the company's bankruptcy. dismember.co.uk/classic/tony...

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Tony Benn — Classic DisMember

Benn welcomes the no-lame-ducks Government to the subsidy business with £42 million for Rolls-Royce 'subject to a further check on the figures' — the reckoning arrived eleven weeks later, in the form ...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 28/07/2026

*Adds PS2 UI integration to future dev list*

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Have you tried searching for stuff on the main page using the Smart Search or the filtering? Did it not work for you?

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 28/07/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Ken Clarke ranks the Brown bubble just below the South Sea, the corruption absent, the credulity fully supplied and files the 2010 Budget as the last sad epitaph to a history of failure. dismember.co.uk/classic/kenn...

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Kenneth Clarke — Classic DisMember

Clarke ranks the Brown bubble just below the South Sea — the corruption absent, the credulity fully supplied — and files the 2010 Budget as the last sad epitaph to a history of failure.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 27/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 27 July 2010 Told there was no bottomless bucket of cash for green energy, Miliband has simply acquired the largest bucket of money on the planet. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Chris Huhne — DisMember

Chris Huhne once lectured Ed Miliband on the lack of green funding. Today, Miliband just commandeered the World Bank.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 26/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 26 July 2024 The North Sea oil industry has decided to prematurely phase itself out with the aid of gravity and a slippery winch. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Claire Coutinho — DisMember

Claire Coutinho warned Labour that GB Energy couldn't replace North Sea oil. Now, gravity has forced the issue.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 25/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 25 July 2019 Westminster’s capacity to fawn over a new leader pointing vaguely towards Manchester is truly inexhaustible. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Jacob Rees-Mogg — DisMember

When a new PM points North, the sycophancy remains identical. Just ask Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Guardian editorial board.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 24/07/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Charles Kennedy, 23 years old, quotes the Government's own document back at it: closing the hospitals without building the alternative is not the answer, then watches it do precisely that in the name of Victorian values. dismember.co.uk/classic/char...

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Charles Kennedy — Classic DisMember

Kennedy, twenty-three, quotes the Government's own document back at it — closing the hospitals without building the alternative is not the answer — then watches it do precisely that in the name of Vic...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 24/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 24 July 2019 Theatrical reviews and regional grandstanding won Burnham the crown. The prisons themselves are entirely incidental. And echo from the past about what is happening right now on the other side. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Richard Burgon — DisMember

Richard Burgon's 2019 fury at justice policy being used for political stunts has aged into a flawless critique of No 10.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 23/07/2026

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 23/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 23 July 2024 The Tory high command have resorted to the political equivalent of calling the council to complain about Nigel Farage's garden fence. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Tom Tugendhat — DisMember

Two years ago, the Tories were laughing at Nigel Farage's parliamentary debut. Today, they are calling the taxman.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 22/07/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament Wilson greets the Government's call for national sacrifice with a couplet — Britain reaching the top via capital gains and the betting shop — a week before the pay pause proved his point on the nurses. dismember.co.uk/classic/haro...

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Harold Wilson — Classic DisMember

Wilson greets the Government's call for national sacrifice with a couplet — Britain reaching the top via capital gains and the betting shop — a week before the pay pause proved his point on the nurses...

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 22/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 22 July 2025 The SNP's supposed vice of absenteeism has simply been franchised out to the new administration. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Wes Streeting — DisMember

Wes Streeting once skewered the SNP for abandoning Scotland. Today, Anas Sarwar is sprinting for the London border.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 21/07/2026

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Margaret Thatcher — Classic DisMember

Thatcher's thunderous "No. No. No." thrilled her party, prophesied thirty years of European agony, and lit the fuse that blew up her own premiership within the month.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 21/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 21 July 2021 Starmer demanded rigorous clarity; Burnham is launching his government on the intellectual bandwidth of an inspirational fridge magnet. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Keir Starmer — DisMember

Keir Starmer's 2021 despair over vacuous slogans is the perfect diagnostic tool for Andy Burnham's new premiership.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 20/07/2026

DisMember — Classic Echo, Harold Wilson 23 Nov 1964 As Burnham opens the books here's his forebear on that subject "Right hon Gentlemen opposite could read too of course. 'They wrote them.' The Tory books flatter their authors about as much as a fairground mirror." dismember.co.uk/burnham-2026...

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Classic Echo: Harold Wilson — DisMember

In 1964 a northern grammar school boy opened the Tories' books. In 2026 another one is reading the same handwriting.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 20/07/2026

DisMember - On This Day, 20 Jul 2010 "One hopes the removal men have simply installed a revolving door & left the engine running" Philip Davies's 2010 definition of performative politics perfectly captures Badenoch's attack on Burnham's detail-light ascent to No 10 dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Philip Davies — DisMember

To truly understand Andy Burnham's detail-free march to Number 10, we must consult a cynical 2010 Tory backbench speech.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 19/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 19 July 2017 Even Jo Johnson might marvel at the sheer, breathtaking velocity with which Burnham has turned his predecessor’s sacred cows into drive-thru burgers. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Joseph Johnson — DisMember

Jo Johnson's 2017 warning about Labour's 'bait and switch' perfectly captures Andy Burnham's day-one manifesto bonfire.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 18/07/2026

Classic DisMember Jo Cox's maiden speech from Jun 2015. A speech about community Yorkshire and Britain's place in Europe that acquired a profoundly different meaning after her assassination a year later. One of the defining parliamentary speeches of the last decade. dismember.co.uk/classic/jo-c...

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Jo Cox — Classic DisMember

A warm maiden speech whose gentle line about having more in common than divides us became, a year later, the epitaph of an assassinated MP.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 18/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 18 July 2018 It was a quaint era when financial opacity in the Brexit ecosystem was still considered a genuine scandal rather than a basic entry requirement. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Tom Brake — DisMember

Tom Brake's 2018 plea for campaign finance transparency was ignored. Today, Nigel Farage is loudly proving his point.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 17/07/2026

DisMember — Classic Parliament The greatest defeat in British military memory turned, at the despatch box, into the moment a nation resolved never to surrender. dismember.co.uk/classic/wins...

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Winston Churchill — Classic DisMember

The greatest defeat in British military memory turned, at the despatch box, into the moment a nation resolved never to surrender.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 17/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 17 July 2017 Starmer plays the lame duck, while Burnham adjusts the crown. One wonders if Darren Jones has simply accepted his role as a flying monkey in Burnham’s new Oz. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Sammy Wilson — DisMember

In 2024 a DUP man told Labour to fix its neglected regions. Two years on, look who's walking into No 10.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 16/07/2026

Classic DisMember The speech that brought down Margaret Thatcher. Geoffrey Howe finally stopped being the Conservative Party's "dead sheep" and delivered one of the most devastating resignation speeches in parliamentary history. 🏏🐑🔥 dismember.co.uk/classic/geoffrey-howe-1990-11-13a

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Geoffrey Howe — Classic DisMember

The dead sheep finally bit back, and with wounded courtesy and a broken cricket bat brought down the Iron Lady within a fortnight.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 16/07/2026

Try our new Classic mode on DisMember Nearly 10,000 speeches in parliament from the most important MPs who ever sat including Disraeli, Gladstone, Churchill, Attlee, Wilson, Thatcher, Castle and many more. All scored and summarised in our unique style! Go to dismember.co.uk and select Classic mode

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DisMember — UK Parliament, on the record

Search 15 years of UK parliamentary speeches. DisMember returns an AI-written editorial briefing plus sourced quotes — for when a Member contradicts themselves.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 16/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 16 July 2013 While Starmer choked out a valedictory PMQs, Burnham orchestrated a bloodless coup. Hunt’s old punching bag hasn’t just dodged the ropes; he’s bought the gym. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Jeremy Hunt — DisMember

Jeremy Hunt's 2013 dressing-down of a Labour shadow minister hits a little differently now the target is Prime Minister.

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 15/07/2026

DisMember — Insult of the Day (2022) Boris Johnson unleashed this utterly bizarre, incredibly vivid insult during his final days at the despatch box. "He is one of those pointless plastic bollards you find around a deserted roadworks on a motorway." dismember.co.uk/contribution...

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Boris Johnson (Con) — DisMember

"The PM, equating the Opposition leader to a roadside bollard, claimed his puppet master was a union baron, not just his own lack of policy." — 20th July 2022

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DisMember @dismember.co.uk · 15/07/2026

DisMember — On This Day, 15 July 2015 No amount of grand electoral commissions can easily cure the public's deep-seated suspicion that, much like an ITV phone-in, the house always wins. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

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On This Day: Mark Durkan — DisMember

Mark Durkan warned in 2015 that electoral tinkering ends in Ant and Dec land. The new Electoral Commission proves it.

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