“The name’s Bondfield, Margaret Bondfield”: This left-winger was the first female Cabinet Minister in the UK and the only woman present at the Accession Council which proclaimed King George VI’s accession to the Throne upon the abdication of King Edward VIII. The daughter of a textile worker, Bondfield was only in Parliament between 1926 and 1931 but will forever be remembered for “improving the lot of the downtrodden”.
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Mark McGowan (AKA The Artist Taxi Driver and Chunky Mark)
Whilst many a taxi driver no doubt gets bored whilst waiting between fares, Clapham born Mark McGowan decided to put his spare time to good use and turned himself into ‘The Artist Taxi Driver’ in 2010. This self-employed eccentric shares satirical videos attacking political parties and injustice with his 59,000 subscribers on YouTube on a […]
Anthony Watson
Listed as one of Fortune’s ‘40 Under 40’ list of young business leaders and the Financial Times’ fourth most influential gay business leaders list, former Barclays CIO Anthony Watson was also named in The Telegraph’s ‘top 50 list of LGBT executives’
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A lovely kind hearted woman. Good on you for highlighting her amazing efforts.
Margaret was the splitting image of my late grandmother Golda, may her soul rest in peace. Perhaps Sally Bercow, Louise Mensch, Katie Price, Katie Hopkins can take a leaf from her book. We all want a lady to be a lady. Scrubbers rule the world these days.
Duck you sucker…. The same old argument, all women are debauched whores by nature, and coming from a man that believes Jimmy Savile is a innocent victim. Have a smashing time with your Arab friends. A tosser born every minute. I have Arab friends too.
Yes, I am sure ‘your Arab friends’ are spotlessly clean. Whenever I see ‘your friends’ ruining my once, so beautiful K’bridge, cleanliness is the last thing that springs to mind.