Housekeeping – new links (0)
07/2/10 •
Now that it’s back online, I’ve been able to do a little housekeeping and update some of the links on this site. One that I’ve added is my Labour colleague Tulip Siddiq. Amongst many other things (including working for the London Labour party) Tulip is a Labour candidate for Regent’s Park ward.
In her latest post Tulip draws attention to David Cameron’s comments about the hijab. She writes:
Has anyone else read Cameron’s outrageous comment about how Muslim peer Sayeeda Warsi would [...]
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I’m back (sort of) (0)
07/2/10 •
Strangely enough this is the first post on this blog in 2010.
Apologies for the break in posting on this site over the last few weeks – and, indeed, for the site going down altogether more recently.
I started a new job in December which I’ll be doing for the first part of this year – which is inevitably going to take precedence – but on top of that I’ve had some domain problems with the site.
Anyway, the technical problems are sorted…so [...]
Climate change, dividing Conservatives (0)
12/12/09 •
Tim Montgomerie, editor of ConHome, has an interesting article on that site today, writing up some of his thoughts for Radio Four’s The Week in Westminster.
“I make the case that the issue of climate change has the potential to divide the Conservative Party in the same way that Europe has divided us in the past,” he writes.
On the question of whether it is possible to do anything to stop climate change, Tim Montgomerie says he largely dissents.
He argues that climate [...]
More bus strikes confirmed for next week (0)
11/12/09 •
I’ve blogged before on industrial relations problems across the bus network. Boris Johnson has been explicitly criticised by trade unionists who see fares about to rise but their pay frozen, whilst revenue from the congestion charge will be reduced when the western extension is abolished. Johnson has blocked millions of pounds of potential revenue by axing the £25 c-charge on gas guzzlers.
Steve Hart, the regional secretary of the Unite union, has previously argued that his union believes Londoners are suffering [...]
Johnson gets twitter guidance over party-political tweet (0)
08/12/09 •
Boris Johnson will receive guidance by the GLA’s Monitoring Officer over the use of his Mayor of London twitter account after the Greater London Authority’s Standards’ Committee found he could be seen to have breached the Authority’s code of conduct by tweeting on a party political matter.
The three- person sub-committee, with a majority of independent members, investigated a complaint from a member of the public who questioned whether it was appropriate for Johnson to use his mayoral twitter feed to welcome the Sun’s endorsement [...]
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