Tag: political stuff
Has anyone read
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 own…
BBC NEWS | Politics | Poor 'may start learning at two'
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. and The government is piloting this type of provision for 12,000 two-year-olds in some of the poorest areas of the country. Ms…
Thought for the week
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 Cumbrian pay…
Whitehall set for an unfair cop.
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…
Save parliament.
First email bulletin – if you haven’t signed up over there, please do. *** Hi everyone, First of all, we’d like to say thank you for signing up, and welcome to the Save Parliament campaign! This is the first email bulletin we’ve sent out. We’ll be sending more as things happen, so you can expect…
I am not reassured.
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…
Democracy
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…
Today's more positive news.
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…
The Observer | Comment | Henry Porter: How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state
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 the…
Dispatches – stealing your freedom.
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…