We should be forced to give so many exceptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax".
Jonathan Kent's production this evocation of the rackety world of American vaudeville – with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents – boasted a breathtaking performance from Imelda Staunton, who played Mama Rose not as some implacable monster but as a jaunty, defiant woman seeking surrogate stardom through the showbiz success of her two daughters.
The indefensible acceptance of money from a surrogate donor is being exploited by Christopher Huhne as a part of his Liberal Democrat leadership campaign.
Details have emerged of an Australian couple abandoning one of their twins born to a surrogate in 2012, with the family court chief justice, Diana Bryant, alleging the decision was based on the sex of the child.
Villains unworthy of vilification can be found in everything from the Austin Powers comedies, where the insufficiently wicked plans of Dr Evil positively drip bathos, to Skyfall, where Javier Bardem essentially played a neglected son jealous of Bond's relationship with their surrogate mother, M. Children's films have been veering this way for a while.
Related: Bill Clinton says foundation has 'never done anything knowingly inappropriate' As the 2016 race heats up, the Hillary Clinton campaign is working through the question of what to do with its most talented, most complicated surrogate.
It was partly working on the film of Billy Elliot and becoming a surrogate father to its star, Jamie Bell, that confirmed Daldry's desire to have a family of his own.
It is understood that the talks have so far failed to resolve how the show would work in Clarkson's absence, with May previously suggesting that the format would be "lame" with a "surrogate" Clarkson.
In 2008, Samantha Power, now US ambassador to the United Nations and then a campaign surrogate for Obama, recorded a campaign video urging Armenian-Americans to vote for him because he would "call a spade a spade and speak truth about it.
Originally these were internet cafes where otaku could gather to drink coffee and read comics: they've subsequently morphed into surrogate bedroom services.
Former foreign ministers Bob Carr and Kevin Rudd say they do not recall dealing with a case involving Australian parents accused of abandoning a surrogate child in India two years ago.
