BBC NEWS | England | London | End to father’s motorway protest
Police said despite the massive traffic disruption on the motorway, the man had the right to protest peacefully.
A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said that despite queues that stretched for 19km (12 miles) on the M25 and 32km (20 miles) on the M4, the decision to [...]
UK fishermen blame EU quotas as they discard five tonnes of endangered fish | Environment | guardian.co.uk
A British trawler has sparked an international incident after being filmed taking a boatload of endangered fish caught in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and then dumping the majority overboard in UK waters.
Norwegian government coastguards filmed the [...]
Have I spelt that right? It looks very wrong.
Anyway, this morning I took another trip out to the park. I was amused by the way so many parents ignored our presence when they realised we weren’t parents, avoiding eye contact, stepping away from the item of equipment we were using and so on. I suspect [...]
German minister criticises UK’s renewables record | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The policy had also had the effect of creating new, world-class industries which had created 250,000 jobs and billions of euros of exports a year. Germany was building the industries of the 21st century and had huge first-mover advantage, he said.
“Climate change is not only about [...]
Tory MPs broke rules on second home payments | News
The committee said the couple were “arguably” in breach of the rules following changes to expenses rules in 2003, which banned MPs from using additional costs allowance to rent from themselves. But the position was “unequivocal” after more changes in July 2006, because members of the [...]
NDS - News Distribution Service
From 2010 the new scheme will form part of personal skills accounts that will be available to all adults and will guarantee free training for older people up to at least level 2 GCSE equivalent. In todays Paper, Ministers will also announce a pilot to fund and support training up to [...]
Fathers no longer needed under fertility law overhaul | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Dr Harris, a member of the Commons science and technology select committee, said the existing act was “unjustifiable, discriminatory and vindictive. It was also unsustainable in human rights and equality terms. The evidence suggests children do very well brought up by lesbian [...]
Tim is watching some scif-fi program about a series he saw yonks ago: Survivors - The Complete Series 1 [1975].
Someone narrating mentioned the links between The Good life and this series, as well as a book, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. Loved the quotes on the wikipedia page [...]
Help pupils now | Schools | EducationGuardian.co.uk
So what makes it politically incorrect to teach children parenting? How a parent can encourage, or hinder, a child. How babies and children learn, develop, respond. I’m talking about replicating in schools the natural development of parenting skills that used to happen in extended families and close communities. I [...]
this? Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics)
I was glancing through the bbc news website, as I do on a fairly regular basis. I came across this article about Rachel Carson, which sounded interesting. I’d never heard of her before, so I went wandering off to find out more and found her biography on her [...]
BBC NEWS | Politics | Poor ‘may start learning at two’
Children from poor families could begin pre-school learning at age two to help give them more stability and stimulation, MPs have heard.
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The government is piloting this type of provision for 12,000 two-year-olds in some of the poorest areas of the country.
Ms Hughes ruled out [...]
time to rattle cages again
equal pay for equal work. There’s legislation to mean this is supposed to be so. Doesn’t really go far enough though, as it seems to me that there is still a vicious circle at work, as can be seen by looking at the results of the NHS [...]
Columnists - Yorkshire Post Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More: LB2
By Colin Cramphorn
Colin Cramphorn is the Association of Chief Police Officers’ portfolio holder for Constitutional Affairs and the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire.
QUIETLY, and without serious debate, a revolution is taking place around the future of policing in England and Wales.
While one [...]
First email bulletin - if you haven’t signed up over there, please do.
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Hi everyone,
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This is the first email bulletin we’ve sent out. We’ll be sending more as things happen, so you can expect to be contacted [...]
Thank you for writing to David Cameron - I’m replying on his behalf. I’m so sorry for the long delay in my reply, as I am sure you can appreciate there has been a massive increase in the volume of correspondence coming into the office since David Cameron took over as leader.
The Government claims [...]
Regular readers will know that this blog is supposedly a blog about our family life and occasional foray into home education. Previous political posts have been few and far between, but this week, I just don’t seem to be able to drop the subject.
I was typing a long and fascinating response to comments below [...]
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Power to the people?
The present government is in power thanks to the votes of little more than a fifth of the electorate. And think of the authority and intrusion of a modern British government.
This is not a few elderly clerks pushing pens in Whitehall to send dispatches to Hanover. This [...]
The Observer | Comment | Henry Porter: How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state
What I saw in Committee A was the triumph of Tony Blair’s modernity over liberty.
Read it and weep. Then dry your eyes and do something about it. Write to your mp, registering your displeasure. Blog in [...]
On Channel 4 now.
You can’t protest in Parliament Square, near the Cenotaph, without police permission. See the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. So you can get a criminal record for reading out the names of the dead from the Iraq war, mark 2.
Cimran Khan is (probably) on a database somewhere for [...]
Guardian Unlimited | Family | Too early, too much, too long
Not sure this will elicit much debate on here tbh, as I think it’s mainly the converted that are reading
But I did think it was interesting. I am a sinner it would appear, as Big was in a nursery from 14 weeks, [...]