This is just to let regular readers, and not so regular ones come to that, know I am taking a break from the blog over Easter. I will not be posting during the Easter weekend, and my time out starts tomorrow . Normal service will resume on Wednesday 7 April. Thanks in advance to all of you [...]
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I was very happy to attend the launch of the general election campaign in Lewisham West last Friday. As a former Lewisham resident and Labour Party activist in Deptford, I always enjoy returning to my old stamping ground. Lewisham West MP Jim Dowd was very much in evidence – it is, after all, his election. I was especially [...]
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Last Friday I attended a Celebration of the Life of James Leslie Hicks Eytle, known to all as Les. Les was one of those people who make the Labour Party work. I first met Les in the 1980s when I was Chair of Evelyn Ward Labour Party in Lewisham Deptford constituency. We were both active members [...]
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Having just come away from my weekly fix of the Politics Show I am reeling in a state of quiet shock about Davis Cameron’s pronouncements on Europe. Instead of the cast iron promise that he will repatriate powers from the EU to Britain, all we got was “I even think some powers should come back [...]
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That’s the question Oliver Kamm at the Times asks? He gently demolishes Daniel’s latest crass assertion. I suspect Oliver is not that familiar with many of the other Conservative MEPs so he may be a little unfair to Daniel. I do hope Daniel will be campaigning in the General Election to tell people how the NHS makes [...]
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The deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is only five years away, and while some progress has been made at the international and national levels, it has until now been too slow and partial. Decision-makers have a tendency to think about problems in statistical terms, and this can mean that what is really [...]
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Only one in 10 board members of Europe’s biggest listed companies is a woman and all central bank governors in the EU are male. This is quite scandalous, not least because, according to a new report from the European Commission the economy would benefit by having full representation of both men and women in top [...]
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Last week I met with London Higher the body which represents over 40 Higher Education institutions. I was fortunate to have an extended discussion with Professor Jane Broadbent Deputy Vice Chancellor at Roehampton University who like me was on the feminist frontline in the 1970s and 1980s and chairs the London Europe Group. Arrangements were kindly made by Doctor [...]
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PR Week featured my work to save the Met Police Trafficking Unit as one of their three top campaigns this week. It has also been mentioned in Campaign magazine. The petition to save the Metropolitan Police dedicated human trafficking unit was, as regular readers will know, run largely online and mainly via this blog. [...]
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So our very own Cathy Ashton has, at the behest of French Foreign Minister Pierre Lallouche, agreed to take French lessons. As regular readers of this blog will know, I have cause to thank M. Lallouche for his outspoken condemnation of the British Tories’ decision to leave the EPP (the mainstream centre-right group in the [...]
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