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Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
As I warned in this post , Richard Howitt's research into the connection between water and unemployment continues to be abused by politicians who interpret things to suit their goals. On October 30, Rep. Nunes said [PDF]: DISTORTION : Farm jobs have increased during the past year. FACT : According to a May 2009 study conducted by the University of California, Davis, 35,285 jobs and $1.6 billion in...
Julian’s musings (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
On the subject of minute taking … On Saturday I attended the Essex County Labour Party meeting in Epping. Owing to the absence of both the Secretary and Assistant Secretary a volunteer was requested to take the minutes, and I duly volunteered. Tonight I will be typing these up. It did give me the opportunity of sitting [...]
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Local Amnesty International (AI) members, at a demonstration in Cambridge Market Square on October 26th, called for the UK government to increase international pressure on Sri Lanka to release the more than 250,000 Tamil detainees from the refugee-turned-detention camps. Richard Howitt, MEP for the East of England, also spoke in support of the Campaign and local MP David Howarth came along to sign...
Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
About nine months ago, Richard Howitt (my dissertation adviser at UC Davis) and his coauthors estimated the impact of reduced water exports from the Sac-SJ Delta on agricultural jobs and revenues in the San Joaquin Valley. In that study,* they estimated the impact to be a $1.6-2.2 billion drop in revenues and 60,000-80,000 job losses. Although Howitt thought that their numbers on revenues were of greater...
Is there more to life than shoes? (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
I haven't had much to do with Richard Howitt before but if you can listen to him for more than 10 seconds without wanting to do damage to something nearby then you're a better person than me. A nice demonstration on how politicians lie and think that British people are complete idiots. The fact that Fiona Hall decided to try to imply that the Lib Dems are in favour of an 'In or Out' referendum given...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
By Mary Honeyball MEP One of the things Gordon Brown got right in his excellent keynote conference speech was his promise on the alternative vote system for Westminster elections. As many of you will know, I am a supporter of Electoral Reform and spoke at the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform’s fringe meeting at Party Conference, along with fellow MEP Richard Howitt and Ben Bradshaw, Secretary...
Not Quite Anonymous (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Good day, I am surrounded by people who promote a ‘no platform’ approach to the BNP. In the last couple of weeks, since this has been a noteworthy issue, I have spoken to Angela Smith MP, Richard Howitt MEP and Tom Flynn PPC and leading anti-fascist campaigner, all of whom have fervently supported a no platform [...]
Julian’s musings (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
For those in or near Brighton in Sussex for the final week of September, here is a date for your diary: Wednesday 30 September Organised by LCER/Vote for a Change 8.30 – 10 pm, Umi Hotel (on the corner of West Street) Class of 2010: the Reformers Reception: hosted by Ben Bradshaw, Nancy Platts, Mary Honeyball, Richard Howitt and [...]
Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Jeff Michael has released an updated study [PDF] arguing that the economic problems in California's Central Valley are general, not caused by cut backs in water deliveries to SOME farmers .* I agree with him. If you don't, then read the report and get back to me :) construction job losses caused by the foreclosure crisis exceed job losses from Delta water pumping reductions by a ratio of 8 to 1. The...
Organized Rage (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
Burston Strike School Rally Sunday 6th September 2009, 11:00am to 4:00pm Church Green, Burston, Norfolk. Nearest BR: Diss. The Burston Strike School Rally is organised by Unite with the support of the SERTUC and the Burston Strike School Trustees. Come to Burston to commemorate the longest strike in history, and to celebrate the people who continue to fight for trade union rights, working class education,...
UKIP (Free subscription) | 21/07/2009
UKIP's David Campbell Bannerman was surprised to find he was the only one of four Eastern Region MEP's who bothered to turn up at key meetings on the European Parliament's powerful new Security and Defence Committee in Brussels this week. Missing from the meetings were the Eastern MEPs Conservative Geoffrey Van Orden and Labour's Richard Howitt, both full members of the Committee, and the Lib Dems'...
Port of Felixstowe Unite (Free subscription) | 21/07/2009
Sunday 6th Sept 2009 11:00am to 4:00pm Church Green, Burston, Norfolk. Nearest BR: Diss The Burston Strike School Rally is organised by Unite with the support of the SERTUC and the Burston Strike School Trustees. Come to Burston to commemorate the longest strike in history, and to celebrate the people who continue to fight for trade union rights, working class education, democracy in the countryside...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 14/07/2009
San Joaquin Valley farms are laying off workers and letting fields lie fallow as their water ration falls. By Alana Semuels Reporting from Mendota, Calif. -- Water built the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley into an agricultural powerhouse. Drought and irrigation battles now threaten to turn huge swaths of it into a dust bowl. Farmers have idled half a million acres of once-productive ground and are laying...
Marketing Jobs (Free subscription) | 15/06/2009
£25,178: RICHARD HOWITT MEP For more General jobs and jobs in Cambridgeshire visit Guardian Jobs
Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | 14/06/2009
My experience of television is mostly from being in front of a rectangular screen, so spending an hour or so at BBC East's studio in Norwich, was an unexpected pleasure. There is still, I'm pleased to say, a regional element to 'The Politics Show', and I found myself in the green room at 'The Forum', a comparatively recent addition to the Norwich skyline, built after the main library caught fire and...
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