Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Former Labour minister Clare Short today attacked the government’s child poverty strategy after new figures revealed that half of all children are living in or close to poverty in many areas of the UK. Research by the Campaign to End Child Poverty(ECPC) found more than a quarter of all the UK’s constituencies have at least half of all children [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Former Labour minister Clare Short attacks the government as new figures reveal half of all children are living in or on the brink of poverty in many areas of the UK
Gwent Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
For the past few weeks we have run a series of articles supporting a campaign to End Child Poverty.MP Dai Davies brought the nationwide campaign to Blaenau Gwent and in this article, with just a few days before the End Child Poverty march takes place in London, he takes a look at what really needs to be done.
Eolake Stobblehouse blog (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
I've been told by the author Richard Taylor that his book Naked In The Roses was inspired by Domai.com. Quite cool. I haven't read it yet, but Mr. Taylor has been successful before both as a screenwriter and novelist, so it's probably good. "I wanted to let you know about NAKED IN THE ROSES and how it was inspired by you and DOMAI, and also to say that I admire DOMAI very much. It lifts humanity and...
Gwent Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
FORMER Mayor of Blaenau Gwent Don Wilcox and wife Moira toasted their Golden Wedding anniversary with a bash at the Park Hotel, Ebbw Vale which was attended by friends, family and political partners including Blaenau Gwent MP and AM Dai Davies and Trish Law.
Gwent Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
DURING the past few weeks the Gwent Gazette has supported a campaign by MP Dai Davies to end child poverty in Blaenau Gwent.
Gwent Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
BLAENAU Gwent council is backing the Dai Davies and Gwent Gazette campaign to highlight the problems of child deprivation and poverty.
Gwent Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Last week we announced our support for a campaign to end child poverty. The national campaign has been brought to Blaenau Gwent by MP Dai Davies.Here, in his own words, Mr Davies explains why he is supporting the campaign and why the issue of child poverty is close to his heart.
Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Autographs are big: Richard Taylor signing books about the designs for The Chronicles of Narnia Kristin here– Back in the early days of this blog, I posted an entry on our friend Henry Jenkins and his concept of the “aca/fan,” a scholar who studies fandoms while being a fan him- or herself. At that time his book [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
What's your favourite piece of technology? My multi-room Sonos music system – which consists of small wireless white boxes in each room hooked up to speakers. I control them with a handheld remote so I can pick whichever tracks I want in each room – or have the same heady tones piped throughout my pad! How has it improved your life? As it streams music from my Napster account as well as my own collection,...
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Being around 9 months behind everyone else as usual, I'm still reading the Alastair Campbell diaries, which I'll probably eventually post a review of. One of the things that hits you, apart from how unpleasant Campbell is towards anyone who steps so much as an inch out of line, Clare Short being a perennial target, is how much of his time is taken up by the most inane and vacuous garbage which made...
ENGAGE - Forum (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Gwent Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
DAI Davies MP has joined a back bench rebellion against a tax grab from owners of empty shops, offices and warehouses.
NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
I agree with the sentiment of this post , at least regarding Clare Short, and the article to which it links. I'm not sure 'shifting left' is what needs doing though. What we need to do is expand our repertoire leftwards , and adopt a more left 'utopia' to work towards. Moving the country identifiably leftwards rather than identifiably rightwards (an issue of direction more than position) would do me...
grimmerupnorth (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Clare Short has made lots of mistakes in her time - not least not resigning over Iraq. And she was utterly wrong to abandon the Labour whip. Nevertheless, she makes some very salient points re Miliband in today's Independent. She shares my ( widely held) view that Gordon Brown's biggest mistake was not shifting left and sticking with the Blairite agenda. And that Miliband, far from being the answer...
