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In a chatty, increasingly informal - but always proper - way she referred in her missives to Pre-Menstrual Tension, Champagne parties, Christmas shopping, and which woman MPs were rumoured to be pregnant. She was also delightfully and unashamedly forthright about colleagues on both sides of the House. She told the Queen that: John Bercow, now Commons Speaker, was odious and a nasty piece of work who raised bogus points of order. Twice-Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson constantly missed debates as transport minister. The Ulster Unionists were a sour bunch. Former war correspondent and anti-sleaze MP Martin Bell was a pathetic joke figure. One-time Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley objected to the use of the word gay instead of homosexual. And former Tory leader Michael Howard was just loathsome. She threw in other references to Teletubbies in Parliament, the risk of the ceiling falling on the heads of MPs and schoolboy behaviour in the House. 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