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23 Nov 2016, 6:03 am by Kelly Fiveash
The report stage and third reading of the proposed legislation, which seeks to regulate a hunk of areas from Internet infrastructure to intellectual property, will be debated by MPs next Monday (November 28). [read post]
1 Aug 2009, 4:30 am
Parliament's reputation is at something of a low ebb these days, partly because of the MPs' expenses scandal, and more seriously because of the steady attrition of Members' power as Government increasingly sidelines Parliamentary debate in favour of hastily cobbled-together secondary legislation. [read post]
10 Jan 2010, 4:20 am by Bystander
When I am elected as an MP by acclamation my first Bill will be the Bad Things Happen Even To Nice People Bill, short title "Shit Happens - Live With It".Don't hold your breath. [read post]
24 Aug 2009, 12:08 am
The letter urges students to submit their own comments to the consultation as well as contact the Ministers and their local MP. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 8:59 pm by Mike
Supreme Court in London On 18 of October, the Supreme Court will hear a case of high constitutional importance: does a criminal court in Britain have jurisdiction to try an MP accused of making a dishonest claim for expenses or are such matters exclusively within the jurisdiction of parliament and not matters for the ordinary courts. [read post]
4 May 2018, 9:50 am by Benjamin S. Persons, IV
MP Spring Lake, LLC While two years is the normal statute of limitations in Georgia, there may be situations in which a personal injury victim actually has less time to file a claim. [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 12:51 pm by Tom Smith
Russia's 'highest-earning elected politician' who had criticised Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has been found dead after a mysterious fall from a hotel in India.Sausage multi-millionaire Pavel Antov, from the main pro-Putin party United Russia, had been on a trip to celebrate his upcoming 66th birthday.A male friend in his party had died 'from a heart attack' on Thursday last week, and the wealthy politician perished two days later.The married tycoon, an MP… [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 12:51 pm by Tom Smith
Russia's 'highest-earning elected politician' who had criticised Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has been found dead after a mysterious fall from a hotel in India.Sausage multi-millionaire Pavel Antov, from the main pro-Putin party United Russia, had been on a trip to celebrate his upcoming 66th birthday.A male friend in his party had died 'from a heart attack' on Thursday last week, and the wealthy politician perished two days later.The married tycoon, an MP… [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 8:08 am
The Government welcomes the recent debate about the confidentiality of MPs'correspondence with their constituents.The Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor will be working with the Information Commissioner in the coming weeks to produce guidance to public authorities to ensure that they apply the Act in a way that balances openness with the need to protect the privacy of constituents. [read post]
31 Aug 2008, 12:07 pm
Jails 'hold 8,500 ex-servicemen'Up to 8,500 former members of the armed forces are serving sentences in UK prisons, it has been claimed.Probation staff union Napo said its figures suggested about one in every 11 prisoners used to be in the forces.It has led the union and Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd to claim there is a lack of support for ex-service personnel.The Ministry of Defence said it worked closely with charities to support veterans when they left the service and those who… [read post]
13 Aug 2011, 9:40 am by Charon QC
*Open Letter to David Cameron’s Parents* about the riots…  please do read… well worth your time… And…finally… I do hope this latest strain of the kneejerkitis StreptoDailyMailocockus virus  doesn’t go viral… but with people like Nadine Dorries and other assorted Coalition MPs ruining running our lives…. [read post]
31 May 2018, 7:48 pm by Tom Smith
Anyone who thinks Britain is much further along with dealing with the taboo of “grooming gangs” should remember that only last year the Labour MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion, had to leave the shadow cabinet because she accurately identified the phenomenon. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 1:09 pm by charonqc
Walk through fire’ Earlier Mr Clegg confirmed to his MPs he would vote for the plans. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 8:59 pm by Mike
Supreme Court in London On 18 of October, the Supreme Court will hear a case of high constitutional importance: does a criminal court in Britain have jurisdiction to try an MP accused of making a dishonest claim for expenses or are such matters exclusively within the jurisdiction of parliament and not matters for the ordinary courts. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 8:04 am
Even if every benefit cheat was caught the amount fiddled would only be a drop in the ocean compared with what our MPs cheat on expenses! [read post]
17 Sep 2024, 1:20 pm by Tom Smith
Additional Hezbollah operatives in Syria and Iraq fell victim to the attack as well.Lebanon’s Health Minister Firass Abiad said that around 4,000 were wounded and 200 people were critically wounded, and the ministry was closing in on a dozen who had already died.The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was reportedly wounded in the explosion, according to Iranian state-owned Mehr News Agency, as were a variety of senior Hezbollah officials and relatives of the terrorist group’s… [read post]
10 Oct 2021, 9:25 am by Tom Smith
To him, the mark referred to the Werewolves, German guerrilla fighters prepared “to strike down the isolated soldier in his jeep, the MP on patrol, the fool who goes a-courting after dark, the Yankee braggart who takes a back road. [read post]
23 Dec 2017, 9:41 am by Tom Smith
It’s a question that increasingly preoccupies many of our most brilliant scientists and tech entrepreneurs.For developments in artificial intelligence (AI) — machines programmed to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence — are poised to reshape our workplace and leisure time dramatically.This year, a leading Oxford academic, Professor Michael Wooldridge, warned MPs that AI could go ‘rogue’, that machines might become so complex that the engineers… [read post]