Political Studies Association Awards
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The eighth annual Political Studies Association Awards on BBC Parliament at 9pm on Saturday 28 November.
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The first woman in Parliament
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
90 years ago she was the first female MP to sit in Parliament, but Nancy Astor was no suffragette. First Lady, 5.30pm on Sunday 29 November on BBC Parliament
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Wednesday 25 November 2009
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Newsnight has won a gong at the MIND Mental Health Media Awards 2009 - you can watch our winning film about politicians and mental health issues here. And we've also been voted Political Programme of the Year in The Political Studies Association 2009 awards. You can read what the judges had to say about us here and watch our political editor, Michael Crick's acceptance speech this Saturday on the...
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Simon Hoggart's sketch | Dead gazelle of politics offers plenty to feed on
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
To Pall Mall, London, for the annual Political Studies Association awards. This is an agreeable beanfeast at which politicians meet the academics who write about them. And the academics meet the politicians in roughly the same way that a pride of lions meets a dead gazelle. They know there's plenty to feed them for quite some time. The MC was a junior Guardian reporter, ie me. We will be on BBC Parliament...
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20 Years of MPTV - Tonight on the Parliament Channel
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Tonight at 9pm on the Parliament Channel David Wilby presents a special programme taking a look at how Parliamentary life has changed since letting TV cameras broadcast its daily business. The autumn of 1989 was the culmination of years of arguments in Parliament; was it a necessary feature of a modern democracy for the public to watch their elected representatives at work? Or would the TV cameras...
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The Indie Club: THE ORDER OF DAGONET #1
Paradox Comics Group (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Indie Club is an irregular feature where we take a closer look at any small press or self-published books that have crossed our path. THE ORDER OF DAGONET #1 Writer: Jeremy Whitley Art: Jason Strutz Firetower Studios $4.00 It's a novel premise: when England is beset by reawakened and pissed off faeries, Merlin returns to round up some new Knights to protect the "green and pleasant land"...
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Democracy on television
BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BBC Parliament looks at how the House of Commons has changed in the twenty years since TV cameras were let in.
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BBC iPlayer now on Nintendo Wii
Radio & Telly (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Nintendo Wii users will find a nice little present today - The BBC iPlayer channel. Catch up with TV and radio from the last seven days streamed to your Wii console. TV channels available are BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament and BBC Alba. Initial tests by the team here show the the service works well - and the picture quality is a huge improvement over the previous method...
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Wæs hæl!
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Wæs hæl ! That is the old Saxon for "good health", or "what's up?" and other general welcoming terms. I want the government's websites all done in old Saxon. Actually, no, I don't, because Saxon was/is a real language, not a made up one. A made up one like Scots. The Scottish Parliament has translated it's website into Scots . Scots is a complete gimmick that anyone...
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Someone stop me laughing.........
Robs Alpaca Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I am in stitches tonight, I am in need of someone to stop me laughing. I made a silly mistake and watched Countrywise on ITV tonight, Gordon Bennett was that funny. When he got the alpaca fleece out and pulled it apart I nearly wet myself. Then he said it you can make a cardigan out of it and it doesn't make you sweat....... I was all of a titter by then....... Oh My God..... I am sure it will be on...
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David Nutt
ffranc sais (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Richard Baum has a very thoughtful piece on the dismissal of the head of the drugs advisory council. Having read this, and seen the short Q&A session on BBC-Parliament this afternoon, I am now not so certain that Alan Johnson was wrong to respond to the recent attacks by Professor Nutt on the subject of declassifying cannabis. The Home Secretary was responding in the Commons this afternoon to an...
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My Opinions & The Speaker
Malcolm Clarke Labour (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I received the most ridiculous email from a reader. Asking for my opinion on an issue they wrote that "Be careful as your opinions could catch your party out". Firstly, I am not an elected member of anything so my opinions as directed by my blog blurb are simply me knee jerk and on the whole unresearched opinions on news items relating to politics. Once I get elected either to council or...
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Green In The Media 2nd November - 8th November
Suitably Despairing (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Tuesday 3rd November To Build or Not to Build On: BBC 1 Time: 11:00 to 11:30 Series following TV presenter Kristian Digby as he builds his dream house. He meets the couple who have built an eco-home on a tiny plot in Brighton. Heli-Loggers On: Quest Time: 22:00 to 23:00 Hmmm. Can I put this in the "green" category? Gord and his new eco-friendly team take on the challenge of felling a mountainside...
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Rumours of Kelly - have they really thought this through?
Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
This morning, The Times reports that the Kelly review on MP expenses is expected to recommend that those MPs whose nearest railway station is an hour or less from Westminster will no longer be able to claim a second home allowance. For example, from an East Anglian perspective, Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar) will lose the right to claim, whilst Bob Russell (Colchester) will retain it. In principle,...
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Young people take over House of Commons. THIS FRIDAY.
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
What will happen when 300 young people take over the House of Commons on Friday? Here's how you can follow the event: Live Blog On the day, the only way to find out what is happening in the House of Commons chamber is to follow our fantastic live blog. Go to the web address below, enter your email address and we will send you a reminder just before the debate begins. www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk/liveblog...