Alexander and Clegg defended the policy, saying it would help those on as little as £15,000 a year, and dismissed some who questioned the policy as sneering.
There is an unhelpful conflation of what Charlie Hebdo now represents – namely sneering and dismissive attitudes towards immigrants across Europe – and the reason for which it has been granted the award.
Harriet Harman may not be the most gifted of advocates but he could at least have made an effort to listen to what she was saying rather than sneering.
The archive of this blog is a record of policies and pronouncements that have alienated women; the coalition's first austerity budget which cut public services, the lack of women in the cabinet and, of course, the occasional glimpses of sneering contempt from a man who believes we should all "calm down, dear".
Anyone who envisages unconventionality in sexual behaviour has a most unremarkable sort of mind It's quite hard to find accounts of life in the suburbs that abandon the sneering tone.
Both are snoots sneering down from a pedestal of their own construction.
Related: Stop the sneering – Ed Miliband's best route to young voters is Russell Brand | Owen Jones The Labour leader added: "It can be dealt with, but you've got to have a government that is willing to say there's something wrong with this and we are going to deal with it".
In the film, it is Schultz, played by an Oscar-winning Christoph Waltz, who finally takes out Leonardo DiCaprio's sneering Francophile plantation owner, Calvin Candie.
Sheila Lawlor is director of Politeia No amount of George Osborne's spin, sneering and hubris in the House of Commons could cover up the fact that his plan A has failed miserably.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to entertain the gathered phalanxes of plenipotentiaries with sneering tirades against the "Great Satan", their host.
That would link the vote to an emotionally-resonant victory that (according to popular belief) saw Robert the Bruce and a band of hairy Highland heroes defeat a much larger army of sneering, heavily-armoured Norman knights sent north by a simpering English tyrant, Edward II.
