Tag: parliament

House of Lords Competition

  • May 28, 2009 at 12:00 am

  • Possibly one of the driest, most unappealing web pages you could hope to produce: but its content deserves so much more, which is why I’m adding it here. The House of Lords and the Hansard Society are running a competition for 11-16 year olds, in which they submit views to the Lords Communications Committee. The [...]

Has your MP signed in favour of putting parliamentary footage online?

  • May 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm

  • Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire, is trying to convince Parliament to allow the posting of parliamentary footage to social media services such as YouTube. She is asking other Members of Parliament to sign her Early Day Motion in support of putting parliamentary procedures online. At the time of writing 28 have done [...]

MPs have behaved atrociously, but would we have been any better?

  • May 13, 2009 at 6:36 pm

  • Recent revelations that British Members of Parliament have abused their expenses are pretty appalling. But maybe it’s society that needs to change its attitude, and not simply the MPs. Yesterday Lord Foulkes challenged BBC presenter Carrie Gracie to reveal her salary. When she did, he lambasted her for daring to cross-examine him when her own salary [...]