Jan 16th, 2010
Tens of thousands have been killed and more than three million people have been devastated by the massive earthquake that has rocked Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries. The Disasters Emergency Committee website is www.dec.org.uk. This is an umbrella group for key aid agencies, and is coordinating UK giving to the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.
Jan 14th, 2010
The Tory-backed Policy Exchange think-tank has today called for the BBC to be dismantled, with BBC Worldwide privatised, the BBC Trust scrapped, and sport and popular entertainment dumped to create opportunities for commercial channels, according to a preview to the report “Changing the Channel” covered by the BBC website and the Guardian.
It’s difficult to pin [...]
Jan 12th, 2010
Up to 2600 Stratford on Avon pensioners entitled to Cold Weather Payments are missing out, according to Lib Dem analysis of government figures.
Jan 11th, 2010
Stratford on Avon’s Tory MP John Maples today announced he is stepping down. His delay in doing so, which he explains in a letter to the Conservative Home website, means that the Tory selection will now be under their by-election rules, with a centrally imposed shortlist.
John Maples has served the community of Stratford on Avon [...]
If you’re visiting this site looking for my email address so that you can send me a two-sentence pledge to sign up to, you’re wasting your time. Like many sitting MPs, it’s my policy not to respond to them.
Why is this?
First, I don’t want to encourage the approach to politics which says that everything [...]
Jan 10th, 2010
Now that the General Election is on the horizon, people are getting increasingly interested in what the parties stand for. Both David Cameron and Gordon Brown have tried to suggest that they are very, very close to the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg has pointed out that this is entirely not the case — indeed, the [...]
Jan 9th, 2010
Second in an occasional series on the ‘little’ issues which have a disproportionate effect on our lives without ever rising up the political agenda.
Jan 8th, 2010
A software manufacturer has released an iPhone application that lets you check your MP’s expenses. The catch? It costs £3.49 for information which is otherwise free, almost six times the average price of an iPhone app. Do we really need this?