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 [...]
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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, [...]
there wasn’t much to forgive
By contrast - my first response from Ms Engels:
Thank you for your email which has finally come to me rather round the houses.
I have received a number of emails via the Writetothem website, but I have no record of receiving anything from you, so I’m sorry that this is [...]
must be careful to keep it education, and not indoctrination! Well, I ask you. Big chose a book from the sale box at the library a little while ago, an ancient tome on Reproduction and Growing Up. Today she wanted to read some of it, so we sat together and I read [...]
Have had the news on most of the day, something I don’t think I’ve really done before. Not sure that it was a particularly sensible thing to do, it’s left me feeling rather drawn out and detached from our reality here.
And that during a hectic day too. Got up early this morning and [...]
Taking another break as I’m somewhat downhearted. Was searching for resources to back up my (limited) understanding of bit manipulation, and on the site of the author of the book I’m using, javaranch, came across a campfire story purporting to explain it. And directly contradicting the book I’m using. I’ve emailed to [...]
Make My Vote Count: PR’s bad PR
As it stands, however, the system is so biased that the government is decided as much by geography and incumbency as by actual votes cast. In 2001, it took an average of 26,000 votes to elect a Labour MP, 50,300 to elect a Conservative and 92,600 to elect a [...]
UK Election news and comment from The Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online
If you read to page two, you discover that our new candidate was against the war. Still don’t know what she looks like or what she believes otherwise, as we’ve had no literature from her at all. Pathetic.
finished with:
“And now I’m going to go work on some graphics. And study some java. Maybe do the washing up. Package up some ebay parcels.”
I thought I’d update you I washed up. Worked on some graphics. Didn’t do the parcels last night, but did get them posted today anyway. Didn’t [...]
An election candidate, on my doorstep! I’ve never met one of those before, and certainly never had one knock on the door. Could have knocked me down with a feather
It was this chap Dominic Johnson Comes over quite well in person, especially when he got to the question, so which [...]