We ate last night at the Ethiopian restaurant, the Queen of Sheba, on Fortress Road. All agreed it was an excellent evening and the restaurant is thoroughly recommended. The meal, with wine, came to £20 a head.
 
The meal is served on a single large plate covered with sour dough bread; either that bread or rolled-up [...]

All too often, we here doom and gloom about the Labour Party. Certainly, I’m not enamoured of a lot of things about it. However, there are times when you remember exactly why you vote Labour.
Alistair Darling has announced tougher minimum wage enforcement, the FT reports. Not only will employers who fail to pay the minimum [...]

Making myself a hostage to fortune as the PM may comment on this tomorrow, but the question sI’d like to hear asked is:
Does the Prime Minister believe the death penalty is ever justified? If so, under what circumstances?
or
What is the Prime Minister’s opinion on the act and form of Saddam Hussein’s execution?
Instead, we are likely [...]

Mr Eugenides, Matt Sinclair and, I’m sure, others are talking about the Scottish Executive’s decision to ban live fish as bait. My reaction to this is much the same as my reaction to the extended debate on hunting, as this extract from Hansard shows:
Mr Politician (Townshire West): Mr Speaker, what did we do today? [...]

As I mentioned before (look right at the end of the post), a copy of The Communist Technique in Britain came across my desk, courtesy of Luke Akehurst. The book is really very good - such that I have purchased my own copy.
In short, Bob Darke was a leading member of the Communist Party [...]

I’ve decided to make some New Year’s Resolutions for my blog.

To post more frequently – say five times a week on average

To give it more structure to the blog, to post questions I’d like to hear at PMQs and to post a brief review of PMQs looking at the interplay between Tony [...]

Ian Pearson MP for Dudley South and Climate Change Minister in DEFRA, has attacked the airline industry and RyanAir in particular for its recalcitrant attitude towards carbon emissions in general and the EU carbon trading scheme in particular.
I’m delighted that the minister with this brief is taking the issue seriously. At first sight, it’s a [...]

There’s a title that will throw the sidebar out.
Educationet, the website and forum for UK student politics, reports that the Evangelical Christian Union is taking the Exeter Students’ Guild decision to disallow that group’s affiliation to judicial review. The Guild contends that the ECU’s insistance on members signing “a statement of belief in Jesus as [...]

I posted a comment on It Shines For All. I think it’s not a bad answer, so I’ve posted it here below the original from IS4A.
Why Are There More Criticisms of Saddam’s Execution than of His Crimes?
Or so it seems. Is gassing Kurds and putting them in mass graves somehow not as bad as [...]