I was contacted earlier today by the “Guardian” Comment is Free site asking me whether I would write a piece about fertility treatment. Covered at length in the newspaper today as a result of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology Conference currently being held in Amserdam, the subject, I believe, defies any real rational analysis. I have [...]
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17:05 Off to Brussels for more Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats meetings. Oh joy! # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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This time in the electoral cycle is always interesting. Having been re-elected, I am now waiting for my Committee places to be finalised. I very much hope to be on the Culture and Education Comittee again and to remain Labour spokesperson on this topic. It was for this reason I went to an open day at [...]
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Yesterday must have been the hottest day in London for some time with corresponding humidity. So it just had to be the the day I was booked to take part in a television panel discussion underneath the hottest lights ever. But still, tant pis as the French may say. I was, in fact, in a [...]
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18:10 On Press TV panel discussion about progression of far right in Europe – BNP not given a platform. A topic of debate is should they be? # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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The election of Martin Sculz as President for a further five years was, unfortunately, not the end of the shenanigins in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. We had further “elections” yesterday morning, this time for Vice-Presidents and members of the Bureau (Executive Committee). The Vice -President positions are important as [...]
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I was delighted to be invited to speak, on work undertaken in the EU on prostitution, at the launch of OBJECT and eaves’ new DEMAND CHANGE! campaign in Parliament yesterday afternoon. Two powerful and inspiring organisations, OBJECT, is a campaigning organisation which is fundamentally against the objectification of women. And eaves is a London based [...]
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10:57 Sadly all good holidays come to an end and I’m now on the Eurostar heading for Brussels # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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Well I’m back after the chastening experience of the European elections, back that is in a European Parliamentary Labour Party of 13. When I first arrived in 2000 there were 28 Labour MEPs, then we lost one during the 1999 – 2004 mandate due to his defection. In 2004 we won 19 seats, and everyone thought that [...]
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During the recent election campaign I warned about the Conservative Party flirting with extremists and now it is confirmed that the Nasty Party has made friends with some other nasty parties. This is Derk Jan Eppink from the Belgian Dedecker list. Let me remind you of his views: Mr. Eppink wrote in his 2004 book [...]
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