Shah chairs a mental health charity and is well known locally in Bradford for campaigning on behalf of her mother, who was released from prison in 2000 after serving 14 years for putting poison into the food of Mohammed Azam, a local drug dealer who she feared was planning to sexually abuse her daughters.
The poison from the murder continues to leach into every aspect of the relationship.
Legend has it that long ago it was used for tipping poison arrows.
Moore and Alexander cautioned strongly against any plan for a Westminster-controlled referendum run by an English Tory government – that would be political poison in Scotland, a misstep capable of transforming minority support for independence into victory for the SNP.
The play – based on the story of the chemist Clara Immerwahr, who killed herself after the poison gas invented by her husband, Fritz Haber, was used for mass murder in the first world war – is the most ambitious yet by a director famous for daring productions.
More powers and more cash for Edinburgh, obviously, and anything that might advance their separatist agenda which, if ever successful, will be poison to Labour's future prospects.
As he described it, 'Thanks to poison and the gun they are rapidly following the fate of the Tasmanian nation which was completely destroyed in a period of about 40 years, constituting the most colossal crime our earth has known'".
Sir John dropped poison pellets into everyone's wine glass.
"We have to draw the poison out of some of the personalities," Murphy said.
Room for improvement: Makes a major point out of its questionable assertion that Aids drug AZT is "poison" and doesn't work.
A wide-ranging policy agenda of small ticket savings to maintain key fiscal targets, including a balanced budget over the course of the cycle, is poison.
