Speechless
I am now officially bored of the Labour leadership contest. There’s been some tedious squabbling on Twitter between the two Mili camps, and the mainstream...
Read this entry »Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
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Kerry, who is MP for Bristol East, told Blogminster: "Constituents increasingly expect to find their MPs online and those that are reluctant to engage with voters in this way are disadvantaging themselves by not reaching a wider public."Articles written by Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
For madmen only
Freudian slip by Mail subs when it comes to a piece about Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks‘ failure to find designers to dress her. “Christina...
Read this entry »What’s going on – postscript
I should have looked at my emails before blogging the last post. Here’s one from Chris Bryant, on the subject of his Ten Minute Rule Bill,...
Read this entry »What’s going on
We’ve just had the whip through for the next fortnight. (The whip is a piece of paper sent out by the whips telling you what the whip is…...
Read this entry »Coulson latest
The NY Times piece on Coulson and phone-tapping for those who haven’t seen it yet. And that’s probably everyone except Guardian readers...
Read this entry »I’d rather jack
That was a bad, bad song…. and an even worse TOTP performance from what I recall. Anyway…. It’s mildly addictive reading the...
Read this entry »Fridays on my mind
Starting to get into the mindset of ‘back to work’ on Monday, by which I mean back to Westminster – I’ve been back at...
Read this entry »Blog Action Week
Quick plug for Blog Action Week, with an email I’ve received (see below). I’m tempted to vote for Oceans, being a diver and with...
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I get along just singing my song, people tell me I’m wrong…
Just been watching Libertines at Reading Festival on BBC3. Excellent stuff. I really should have got my act together to go. Instead I’ve somehow managed to...
Read this entry »High water
Just before Parliament broke up, we had the Annual Energy Statement in the Commons from Chris Huhne, which was mostly dominated by discussion of nuclear power and...
Read this entry »Save our swimming
Quick plug for Councillor Ron Stone’s epetition on saving free swimming in Bristol. You can sign up here: http://epetitions.bristol.gov.uk/epetition_core/community/petition/911 ...
Read this entry »Bonus track
This recess is of course a bit different in that Parliament is being recalled on 6th September, for a couple of weeks, and then we’re in recess again for the...
Read this entry »Death of the European
I’ve just remembered this exists. Or rather, I remembered at 5am, during a bout of insomnia. I suppose I should really save it for when I want to make a profound...
Read this entry »We are underused
The big local issue at the moment is the Lib Dem council’s bid to sell of lots of supposedly ‘underused’ green spaces to developers, supposedly...
Read this entry »From the wilds of Borneo…
…to the vineyards of Bordeaux. Etc. Yes, I’ve been on holiday, and I will leave it to you to guess whether I’m more the Borneo or Bordeaux type....
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