Tom Harris

The ShortList - November 22nd

Labourlist (Free subscription) | yesterday

From @LabourList Catch up with the highlights from LabourList this week, with the ShortList, below... First, check out this week's PPC Profile , of Reading East's Anneliese Dodds . Until Christmas, there's also the welcome return of the LabourList interview . The first is with Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, Glenis Willmott . And read Labour's new media tsarina, Kerry McCarthy's...

“Integrity”, “affiliates”, “allies”, and being “silenced”

International Journal of Inactivism (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

[cite as: F. Bi. 2009. "Integrity", "affiliates", "allies", and being "silenced". Intl. J. Inact., 2:97--98] Primo While global warming inactivists continue to yammer on about the supposed global warming ‘conspiracy’ ‘revealed’ by the cracked CRU e-mails, Tom Harris has apparently been asking for money for his brainchild climate inactivist...

KHOODEELAAR! Action replay: Muhammad Haque told HARROW Times on 25 October 2007

KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

By © Muhammad Haque 2150 Hrs GMT Thursday 25 October 2007 Khoodeelaar! The East End of London campaign against the CrossRail hole Bill notes the unconstitutional attitude as expressed by the transport minister Tom Harris in your report. Mr Harris is showing undemocratic contempt for the principles and the practice of the sovereignty of parliament by expressing the presumption that he does nit...

The chatterers do not hold the key to electoral success

Labourlist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

By Tom Harris MP / @TomHarrisMP Can Labour win under the current electoral system? Well, given that we have won three times in the past 12 years, I would hazard a guess at “yes”. If some of Labour’s parliamentary candidates reckon we can’t win unless we promise a referendum on the alternative vote on the same day as the general election, maybe they should be examining their...

• The chatterers do not hold the key to electoral success - And another thing...

Recommended Reading 18-Nov-09

Daniel1979 Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Here is my latest recommended reading list. Please note, I do not necessarily agree with these posts and articles, however I found them sufficiently interesting to warrant a recommendation: Tom Harris speaks out against plans to regulate the blogosphere. Spiegel say that President Obama has failed the world on climate change. Iain Martin says that Brown is bouncy. Sophie Tredmanson says the church...

Adonis blogs on latest Pilgrimage of Grice

Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Lord Adonis is blogging as he inspects shabby stations. Updates are being posted here . Whilst not quite up to the standard of Tom Harris MP or the twitterings of Sadiq Khan it's a noble effort (geddit!).

Could we be heading for two general elections

Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Newmania commented here yesterday that the Tories have always washed their dirty linen in public, and they are healthier for doing so. Actually, Labour has always done the same, although Blair and Campbell succeeded in keeping levels of dissent to a minimum. Discipline was the buzz word. You can't win elections by looking like a divided rabble, and although most of the time it was a really case of...

Bizarre deleted post from Tom Harris

SNP Tactical Voting (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

I just spotted this odd post from blogging MP Tom Harris: Kerr wasn't born in Cumbernauld or Dennistoun He was born in Lazy Town! Or maybe I'm thinking of his twin brother, Robbie Rotten? Robbie Kerr By Tom Harris. Published on Fri 13 Nov 19:48. Updated on Fri 13 Nov 19:48. But if you go to Tom's blog the post has mysteriously vanished so one can only conclude that on reflection he felt it wasn't up...

Best Comment on Glasgow North East

John Ward in Medway (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

…comes from Old Holborn, commenting at Tom Harris's And Another Thing, though I'm not sure it was in fact composed by him, as he says it was "seen elsewhere" on his own 'blog: EVERYBODY who believes in democracy has a duty to accept last night’s result in Glasgow North East. You have to believe that the people of Glasgow North East cast their votes after looking at all the issues....

SNP fail in Glasgow North East

Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

I had for some time thought it was likely that Labour would win the Glasgow North East by-election. The biggest sign that they thought they were on to a dead cert was the fact that they were quite happy for Glasgow Labour MP, Tom Harris, to spend polling day evening tweeting from the Will Young concert at the SECC. I did cruelly joke that maybe they wanted him out of the way, but if you think the result...

A man with many profiles?

Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

Tory Bear thinks I am Liberal Monkey , don't you blog readers already know that I blog as Tory Bear, Tom Harris, Iain Dale, Guido Fawkes and still find time to be myself?

Glesga North East

Lewis' Labour (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Firstly I've got to moan and gripe about the whole "It's like Baghdad". Yes they have extremists running around, but ironically those are the islamophobic BNP. Glasgow North East has wonderful people there and it's a characterful constituency. I like that about it, it's not a boring one, it's a constituency with a story. I didn't meet Willie Bain, although Blog enthusiasts might like the...

(Return of the) The Daley Dozen: Monday

Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

1. Tory Rasca l interview LibDem blogger Mark Reckons. 2. Charlotte Gore explains why she changed her mind over Brown's letter. 3. Nadine Dorries bemoans the departure of another Labour MP. 4. Shane Greer is soliciting Labour Party members ... by offering pizza. Don't think Kerry McCarthy will be replying, though. 5. Tom Harris on why taxing the rich is a bad thing. 6. Grimmer Up North becomes the...

Fiddling With Tax While Labour's Vote Burns

Dick Puddlecote (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

Tom Harris has been wringing his hands over Labour's tax policy today. What is particularly concerning him is the kneejerk stance of some in his party to call for envy-led taxes on the rich. The logic seems to be this: Labour’s eschewing of traditional Labour tax-and-spend policies has led to the current disparity between the lowest and the highest paid; soaking the rich would therefore, of...

Brown, Blair, Cameron, Europe, Guy Fawkes, Tom Harris and the Berlin Wall.

Jess The Dog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Not often that things come together so well. Just like the Elvis Presley Dambusters Clock Plate of Tutankhamun . - We were facing the prospect of an unelected "President Blair" being landed upon us following Brown's signing of the Lisbon Treaty...without a promised referendum. Thankfully that is not likely to happen. - David Cameron reacted to the Lisbon Treaty ratification with a well-thought...