URL: Latest posts
LAST PRAYERS FOR COUNCIL MEETINGS
NEW
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 w...
ZIMBABWE
NEW
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...
DOES ANYONE EVER GET AN ANSWER TO A PRIORITY WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION?
NEW
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...
IGNOBLE LORDS
NEW
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 goe...
PROGRESSIVE LONDON CONFERENCE
NEW
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 inv...
APRIL COOL
NEW
I am at the Progressive London Conference and have just heard Harriet Harman announce that Barack Obama will be visiting Gordon Brown on 1st April.
LABOUR MISSED
NEW
It was meant to challenge ConservativeHome. We hoped it would be the activists' arena. Instead LabourList is top heavy, dominated by people centred around Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Ken Livingstone. These three may make interesting bedfellows, but...
UKIP MEP GOES UP IN SMOKE
NEW
This diatribe comes to you courtesy of a Ms Brenda Orsler, a delegate to the conference against prohibition who apparently paid to attend out of her own resources.As far as I can make out, it is a pro-smoking event. What is even more interesting is t...
ANOTHER TAKE ON BLOGGING
NEW
This article from today's "Financial Times" makes some interesting points.The new corporate firefightersBy David GellesPublished: January 22 2009 02:00When advertisers launched a campaign last September for the pain reliever Motrin, they hoped to att...
LABOURSPACE.COM
NEW
The Labour Party has just launched a unique campaigning site Labourspace.com.The Labourspace.com site gives organisations and individuals the opportunity to set up campaigns they want to bring to the attention of Labour politicians.Ed Miliband, who...
OBAMA - MY TWO HOPES
NEW
Well, who could fail to be inspired. The hope (to use Obama's own word) and excitement reminded me of May 2 1997. I was one of the many lining Whitehall that balmy summer's morning cheering our new Prime Minister, Tony Blair, being completely carri...
TURKEY CONSIDERING NUCLEAR POWER
NEW
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last night spoke of Turkey's intention to build nuclear power stations to meet its growing energy needs. Addressing a dinner organised by the European think tank, Friends of Europe, Mr Erdogan described...
KEN CLARKE - MONEY BEFORE COUNTRY?
NEW
In today's Independent, Jeremy Hunt Shadow Secretary of State for Culture says“David Cameron rightly expects all members of his Shadow Cabinet to put every ounce of energy they can into defeating this disastrous government, so no one should have an...
HOW LONDON'S BUSES COULD GRIND TO A HALT
NEW
I have seen adverts for churches on London buses for decades and never heard of a Muslim, Buddhist, Jew or Atheist refusing to drive our iconic red London buses. London is the great cosmopolitan city of the world and we tolerate each others faith and...
DISCUSSING GAZA WITH THE ISRAELI EMBASSY
NEW
At the moment sadly Gaza is the subject I am blogging on most. I appreciate the comments that constituents have made on my previous postings here and here. Letters/emails on Gaza continue to dominate my mailbag/inbox and I am responding to every sing...
VICTORY IN HARINGEY
NEW
The coldest I have been leafletting in a very long time was last week for the 7 Sisters by-election in Haringey. Great to hear about the victory and my congratulations to Joe Goldberg. For details of the result and some analysis see Luke Akehurst.
TORIES ABSTAIN ON EQUAL TREATMENT AT WORK
NEW
MEPs today voted on a Report on the implementation of Directive 2002/73/EC, a Directive on putting into practice the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working condit...
TORIES VOTE AGAINST FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
NEW
You will have seen that I blogged yesterday on the Tories anti-women votes on two paragraphs on the report by Giusto Catania dealing with fundamental rights in the EU.You may be interested to know that on the final resolution on the report on fundame...
TORIES VOTE ANTI-WOMEN AGAIN
NEW
The Tories are at it again, abstaining on votes in the European Parliament which will have a profoundly beneficial impact on women's lives.A report went through today on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union 2004 - 2007. Written b...
