Chris Bryant, Labour MP for the Rhondda, is running the London Marathon to raise funds for the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, the people doing the ‘Give a Few Bob‘ campaign. You can sponsor him here.
The PCRF is a fairly small charity that does specialist work on one of the cancers that kills a lot of [...]

When is a sex establishment not a sex establishment? When it’s a lap dance bar.
Celia Barlow, the Labour MP for Hove & Portslade, has a good article on this on the New Statesman website about the issue of strip joints. Unfortunately, they have been classed along with cafes and ballet schools as a result of [...]

There are 650 million people with disabilities in the world; four-fifths of them live in the developing world. While much has been done in the developed world to improve the lot of people with disabilities and to bring us closer to equality, we are not there yet; things are that much worse in the developing [...]

Nadine Dorries has posted another attack on an MP who supports abortion encouraging people to vote solely on that issue; this time, it is Barbara Follett.
In order to receive funding they have to support Labour party values, and be pro-abortion
This means that any potential candidate of faith, ie, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, Muslim or Hindu would [...]

Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP for Mid Beds and doyenne of the anti-abortion movement in Parliament, has been pressing for further restrictions on abortion for some time. I have no doubt that she sincerely holds those beliefs. However, it does seem that the strength with which she holds those beliefs is clouding her judgement. As [...]

The Rt Rev Joseph Devine, Bishop of Motherwell, has come out with some particularly putrid comments. According to The Scotsman (via New Humanist via Stroppy) and the BBC, the Bishop has said
“It is ever-present at the service each year for the Holocaust memorial, as if to create for themselves the image of a group of [...]

Is, as Bob Piper suggests, the agency workers bill. Looking down the list of MPs, there are some people who might be considered pretty close to government; they are not the awkward squad. We have Frank Field, Peter Hain, Kate Hoey, Lindsay Hoyle, Geoffrey Robinson and John Spellar, for instance. Given how close Geoffrey Robinson [...]

I have signed the following petition on the Number Ten website and ask you to consider doing the same. At the time of writing, it has more than four hundred thousand signatures.
By comparison to many other European Countries, Britain has fewer public holidays and none at all for a period of some three months between [...]

The right of habeas corpus is a key right because, in the same way as petitions to Parliament, they make all other rights effective because, although they only demand a case be seen, they drag it into the sunlight.
Regrettably, the government seeks to extend the current maximum time that someone can be held without charge [...]

Tim Ireland is back online at b-heads.blogspot.com. In other news, the London Friends of Craig Murray report that Schillings are not going to sue Craig Murray because they don’t want to give him any more publicity. While that’s good for Murray, the words ’stable door’, ‘horse’ and ‘bolted’ spring to mind.
SpyBlog has also kindly posted [...]