Priorities

I post this not becuase of the main story, but the one that goes into its telling.

Harman makes a tough choice

A poster writes:

Um, is there a sentence or paragraph missing from the end of this piece?

On feminist issues Harman is one of nature's fundamentalists, brave enough to march into any minefield under enemy fire

??
Is it brave to engineer a cave-in?
Isn't this a prime example of hypocrisy from Harman, not fundamentalism?

And the author replies:

Well spotted, AlisdairCampbell. The above article was edited to appear in the Guardian and sometimes has to be cut. It's usually skillfully done, was last night, but a nasty ad popped up at the bottom of the page ( it pays our salaries!) and the last 150 words disappeared.
What i suggested there was that Harman must have been bound by collective ministerial responsibility to do what she would not otherwise have done, had she been acting alone. That's politics and I have no complaint, though others do, Polly Toynbee for instance in a column this week.
In both Scotland and Northern Ireland - in Ulster all the main parties are hostile to abortion and it remains illegal - it's a very hot and divisive issue; hence reserved to Westminster under devolution. Polly got cross about this in her column, but seemed to concede that public opinion in Northern Ireland remains anti-abortion, Catholic and Protestant.
That may be harmful to many women, especially those too poor to come to England for an abortion, but if it's hypocrisy - it is - it seems to be majority hypocrisy.

Thing is, after 8hrs, it does not look to have been addressed properly. At least the guy read his critics, but evidently not his own piece. Amazing. I have long suspected the Newsnight crew just 'post 'n forget', but even here, with subs and all, things just get stuffed up the same way.