Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
The real star of today's PMQs was Sir George Young, the gangling, benign, courteous baronet who sits for a beautiful stretch of Hampshire downland. Sir George asked Gordon Brown how he could square his promise to rebalance the relationship between the Executive and the Legislature with the fact that Parliament will sit for fewer days in the next session than at any time since the Second World War....
veni vidi blogi (Free subscription) | 19/10/2008
Being a short account of the boys' weekend away. Every year at Sydney Motor Show time the three of us catch up and try to act like we're still 21. We're not, but it's fun to try. Anyway hanging out at the Sir George Young on George St with Kev, the bloke who balances a guitar on his forehead while strumming another one. We were a few beers into it by this stage, in fact it was our second visit
Queerty (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Australian musicians Harry Vanda and George Young got their start as part of the 60s pop band, The Easy Beats, but decided to join forces after that group broke up in 1969. Thus, Flash & The Pan, an outfit that, despite its self-aware moniker, had a string of respectable hits, like “Midnight Man.”
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
PERSONNEL: Dr. John - vocals, keyboards, Steve Gadd - drums, Will Lee - bass Richard Tee - keyboards, Hugh McCracken - guitar, John Tropea - guitar, Arthur Jenkins - percussion, Ronnie Cuber - baritone sax, Charlie Miller - cornet Barry Rogers - trombone, David Sanborn - alto sax, George Young - tenor sax Ronnie Barron/George Jones/Tammy Lynn/Alvin Robinson - background vocals Long out of print, this...
Christopher Howse (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
Thatchers are rare in Parliament. Thatch, though, was the subject of a strange debate last week. Sir George Young was explaining the absurd impasse into which people with thatched roofs have been forced. The wrong kind of straw is the bureaucrats' cry English Heritage insists that thatch should be renewed with exactly the same kind of straw that is on a roof whe...
Cornish Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
The North Cornwall Conservative Association welcomed veteran politician Sir George Young MP as guest speaker at its latest Patrons' Club event.
Christopher Howse (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Thatchers are rare in Parliament. Thatch, though, was the subject of a strange debate last week. Sir George Young was explaining the absurd impasse into which people with thatched roofs have been forced. The wrong kind of straw is the bureaucrats’ cry English Heritage insists that thatch should be renewed with exactly the same kind of straw that is on a roof when it needs renewing. In Hampshire some...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 22/04/2008
Mike Lorenz is a jazz guitarist from Lehigh Valley, PA. Playing professionally since the age of 19, Mike has performed with such musicians as Rufus Reid, George Young, Bud Shank, Jim Pugh, Ravi Coltrane, Neil Wetzel, Paul Rostock and Pete Colangelo. Lorenz brings his quartet to Chris' Jazz Cafe on April 24, 2008...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
"I cannot be shackled... I'm frightfully flighty," says Gwendoline, who sounds like a dainty miss of music hall but is in fact, her former and present husbands agree, a slut. This doesn't stop George, her young and silly spouse, and Ian, her grave and sensible ex, from wanting her – the latter even tells George that he is going to get her back.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22/03/2008
An anti-sleaze politician insisted yesterday that MPs are not above the law, even though Derek Conway will not be charged.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
AMEX:ROY TSX:IRC DENVER, CO, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - International Royalty Corporation (AMEX: ; TSX: IRC) (the "Company") announced today that George Young has resigned as a Director and Vice President of the Company, effective January 31, 2008, to pursue other ventures. International Royalty Corporation --------------------------------- International Royalty Corporation (IRC) is a...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 21/02/2008
With MPs speculating about the future of the embattled Commons Speaker Michael Martin, just who might step into the Speaker's Chair and succeed him? On the Tory side, the candidate tipped by most MPs is Sir George Young, the bicycling...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
Tory grandee and chairman of the Commons standards and privileges committee, Sir George Young, describes his blog, On a Lighter Note, as "some insights into the life of today's Member of Parliament". But who did he have in mind in his most recent post: 'Doing Time'.....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/02/2008
The House met in sombre mood to consider the death of a reputation. Sir George Young (C, North-West Hampshire) freely admitted that the Committee on Standards and Privileges, which he chairs, was to blame for the killing.
Robin Wilton's esoterica (Free subscription) | 31/01/2008
Sir George Young, MP, is chairman of the House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges. I heard him describing the process the committee went through as it produced its report concerning Derek Conway MP (who, if you haven't been following the story, used part of his parliamentary allowances to employ members of his own family). Sir George explained that the committee drafts its report, then...
