The House of Lords EU Committee has a responsibility to look at what is happening in the European Parliament. The principal function of the EU Select Committee is to scrutinise EU legislative proposals and the Government’s response to them. The Committee conducts a regular scrutiny of EU proposals, conducts a Correspondence with Ministers to pursue significant issues [...]
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I am unsurprised at this story (CLICK HERE) in the Daily Mail and of course condemn his ignorant sexist attitudes out of hand. Councillor David Taylor put the topless calendar up at Nottingham County Council HQ for all to see. What I am waiting for is the Leader of the Tory Group, Ken Clarke (a [...]
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The Government has done exceptionally well by promising that all UK homes should have access to broadband and faster download speeds by 2012. As a blogger and serious internet user, I very much welcome this announcement. Not surprisingly the Opposition parties have put their usual gloomy spin on the proceedings. According to the BBC [...]
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This article by Johann Hari appeared in the Independent today. Iagree with it wholeheartedly and think it makes some telling points http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-should-i-respect-these-oppressive-religions-1517789.html
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How sad that Independent Councillor and Mayor of Dartmouth Debbie Morris thinks that councillors who do not share her own Anglicism should be excluded from parts of Council meetings. In the 21st century I would have hoped that the saying of prayers would be a thing of the past. The story of Atheist Brian Boughton [...]
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Yet another plus for human dynamo, President Obama. Tackling Zimbabwe really should have been higher on the West’s political agenda. Thankfully the new President of the United States understands that something needs to be done and has wasted no time in taking up the cudgels. I am constantly amazed that the people of Zimbabwe are [...]
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You may have seen the blog which I have copied at the end of this post which went up on 5 December. You will see that I put down a priority Written Question to the European Commission. This was, in fact, sent to the Commission on 3 December 2008. To date I have not heard [...]
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Woe indeed is the Labour Party when our members of the Upper House sell their integrity for money. If the allegations against Lords Taylor, Truscott, Moonie and Snape turn out to be true, they will all have breached House of Lords rules. But it goes further than that. In an interview on the Andrew Marr [...]
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I have to say the idea of a conference with Ken Livingstone monopolising the front of the programme sponsored by the GMB, UNITE and ASLEF filled me with some dread. What could possibly be progressive about that was my initial reaction. On further investigation this was not even a Labour conference. Greens and even Liberal [...]
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