It’s been ten years since Labour came to power, say the Tories, and it’s high time they did something about families. Fathers are behaving irresponsibly, and this is causing their teenage kids to run riot around South London with an arsenal that would embarass a rebel militia. Bad parenting is causing bad kids that will [...]

This made me laugh – it came up on the irrepressible.info box from Amnesty on my blog.

If you click on the image, you’ll see the backstory – the BBC website is censored in China – but the idea of someone not wanting Star Trek fans to know that there was memorabilia to buy suggests a [...]

Iain Dale and Dizzy are thinking about EDMs. The House of Commons Procedure Committee are indeed looking into EDMs; in fact, they’ve finished looking, having moved onto Written Parliamentary Questions, and are moving on to Written Parliamentary Questions. I went to their hearings on EDMs. A couple of points – cost, and then use of [...]

Iain Dale of Fox News Lite 18 Doughty Street is very pleased with himself. Have a look at his claims. Now let’s look at those in detail.

* Today it is the second most popular political video on Youtube

not any more – it’s been overtaken by BLEACH 116 FULL and Goth vs Emo Rap Battle. Do [...]

Well, it amuses me.
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Amnesty International report that Egyptian blogger Karim Amer as been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for blogging against, inter alia, Hosni Mubarak.
Beta translation to English courtesy of Google.
Free Karim Amer.
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I’m a member of Amicus and I have just cast my vote in favour of the merger with the T&G, largely because I think we need more recruitment and more recruiters means more recruits. Trades unions are a vital part of civil society and key to the Labour Party, not only in terms of membership [...]

I just spoke to a friend of mine who lived in the same block as me when I was in DC, Claire. Her fiance is a professional photographer – some of his photographs appear on his website, DelReyPhotography.com. Do please visit.
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http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/yes2roadpricing/
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As of 23:19 on 15th January, fully 1,498,130 people have signed the petition against the introduction of road pricing. If I had more time, I would like to check how many pundits are currently saying that the PM should take note who did not say the same when lots of people marched against the Iraq [...]