Lightwater (Free subscription) | yesterday
The previous post is a synopsis of Michael Howard’s speech during the Queen’s speech debate, culled from Hansard. The official version of the speech, has been posted by Michael Howard on the Blue Blog, under the title, ‘We must replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights’. [...]
Labourlist (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Sunder Katwala has posted an interesting article on Next Left about Chris Grayling's "latest headline grabbing wheeze", namely the headline in today's Sunday Times: Tories to demand: are you married? Sunder says: "While his colleagues attempt a liberal love-bombing strategy by posing as progressive, Grayling is already gearing up for what could prove a...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
If the Tory leader wins the next election, he faces a media battle between News Corp and Google which could split his inner circle It's the war for Cameron's ear. Greeting David Cameron, should he win the keys to 10 Downing Street next year, could be the mother of dust-ups between Google and News Corporation, two of the world's biggest media companies. It threatens to embroil the Tory leader's closest...
Lightwater (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In our country the judiciary is subordinate to the legislature, not always the case in other domains. This fundamental aspect of our democracy is under threat, as Michael Howard has pointed out, when he spoke in the debate on the Queen’s Speech on curbing the power of judges. His speech, I believe, has gone unreported. So here’s a synopsis. I did not then foresee [...]
Sea Notes (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It’s feeding time for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s new ocean sunfish, or mola mola. Senior aquarist Michael Howard walks out a 20-foot walkway extending over the middle of the million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit. He places a red-and-white striped ball on...
From Under the Stone (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It is always a pleasure to receive letters, notes and emails from 'the big guys,' especially those of a more polemical nature. In this vein, From Under the Stone was delighted to receive a letter from Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (and Herald letters page regular) Donald Worsley. Kent County Council (almost totally blue) favour building a lorry park capable of holding thousands of vehicles...
News-Insurances (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A new Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF) arbitration panel was announced today by Lloyd’s. Timothy Brenton QC, Michael Howard QC, Simon Kverndal QC, Lionel Persey QC and Jeremy Russell QC have been appointed as first instance arbitrators. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has made Mr Justice Teare available to sit as the LOF appeal arbitrator until December [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Folkestone MP Michael Howard tells Kent County Council that a lorry park to take cross-Channel freight traffic will be built "over his dead body".
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Celebration of Rumpole creator's life at Southwark Cathedral one year after lawyer and playwright's death For a man who did not believe in God, only a cathedral was big enough to accommodate Sir John Mortimer's many friends and admirers for a memorial service today. Actually, the event at Southwark Cathedral in London was billed as a celebration of the life of the lawyer, author, playwright, entertainer...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
'I am nothing more than an ambulatory heap of knitwear' There is an early episode of Smallville in which a high school student survives immersion in an icy, kryptonite-filled lake and spends the rest of his non-recurring role blue with cold, stumbling about looking for warmth. Anyone he touches turns to ice and shatters telegenically on the nearest polished stone floor. He passes fires and sucks out...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Gordon Brown is a troubled man so the prevailing wisdom goes. He does have his demons to seek, from his flawed personality to the ghost of Tony Blair that won’t quite leave the stage. He is widely seen in the media as an unattractive mixture of indecision, control freakery and paranoia. In a matter of years he has been transformed from being ‘the Iron Chancellor’ who was feared by...
Kingsdowner (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Good news that Dungeness has been passed over as a site of the next generation of nuclear power stations, leading to dreams of the levelling of Dungeness A and B within our lifetimes. Which genius chose it as a site for a power station in the first place? At the enquiry back in 1958, evidence was submitted to show it to be 'the most significant shingle foreland ...in Europe, and one of the major coastal...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Kent MP Michael Howard vows to fight the government's decision to reject Dungeness as a site for one of 10 new nuclear power stations.
MSDN (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Michael Howard and Adam Shostack, experts in eecurity engineering at Microsoft, chat about their top 10 security pet peeves.
The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For many years Eurosceptic Conservatives have wanted the UK to be "opted out" of EU social legislation - John Major negotiated an opt-out from the "social chapter" at Maastricht and Michael Howard has long been arguing for repatriation of power in the social and employment field. A very important point that I think needs drawing attention to, though, is that Open Europe is calling...
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victorio | 05/08/2009
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