EDM 908
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE REPORT ON HOMEOPATHY
That this House expresses concern at the conclusions of the Science and Technology Committee’s Report, Evidence Check on Homeopathy; notes that the Committee took only oral evidence from a limited number of witnesses, including known critics of homeopathy Tracy Brown, the Managing Director of Sense About Science, and [...]

The Westminster Skeptics in the Pub gathered last night in a different pub, the Old Monk, for a different type of event- a discussion on ‘what difference does political blogging really make?’
The evening focussed around a couple of questions; what is the relationship between traditional journalism and blogging, and is it sustainable; and what influence [...]

The findings of the British Social Attitudes Survey make interesting reading, particularly in light of the off-again, on-again proposal from the Conservatives to privilege marriage in the tax code. Needless to say, I think it’s a bad idea, but I wonder how much traction it would actually have with people.
Britain is becoming more liberal in [...]

UK plc is not in a great state and today’s PBR is a recognition that recovery is not just around the corner.
We are in a worse condition than our G20 peers; alone still in recession and with three quarters of recession ahead of us. The question to be asked is why we are particularly affected.
Did [...]

Dear Nick (if I may call you that),
I’ve been thinking about the next election. There seems to be a decent chance that there will be a hung parliament. It is, of course, possible that one party will be so close to an overall majority that they will form an alliance with one of the small [...]

The London Evening Standard is to become a freesheet, the BBC report. thelondonpaper was pulled by News International last month. We are now down to three, non-specialist, London-wide newspapers, the ES, London Lite and Metro. I’m excluding things like Sport, Shortlist and City AM.
This is not good. We will shortly only have two newspapers [...]

On the 6th April [1780], Mr. Dunning moved … ‘that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.’
– Erskine May, The Constitutional History of England since the Accession of George III, Ch. 1, available free online here.
If the constitutional settlement that comes down to us from the Glorious [...]

The fearmongering, lying, racist Richard Barnbrook should not be suspended from Barking & Dagenham council.
As Adam ‘Tory Troll’ Bienkov reports, the decision was handed down by a joint standards committee between the GLA and B&D council. Barnbrook put up a mendacious video saying there had been three stabbings in three weeks in LB Barking & [...]

Charles Clarke has said the PM should go. Clarke has form for this (as mentioned here and here on this blog). Charles Clarke has not thought Gordon Brown should be Prime Minister for some time now. I’d say he’s had that opinion since Blair’s ministry.
Indeed, I should think there are no circumstances in which Charles [...]

Donal Blaney writes about a sort of division within the Conservative Party. In short, Mr Blaney objects to a large part of David Cameron’s repositioning of his party as progressive conservatives. The bulk of his argument is that liberalism and fascism both descend from progressivism, and so are alike. I may well pick up a [...]