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Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
The Lib Dem leader has given me cause to return to Labour List for the first time since the early days of whatshisface. On Pride Saturday for the Sassenach gay fraternity he is speaking about gay rights and how far we have come since his University day when Thatcher brought in Section 28. However, he notes: 'however, the inequalities that persist are frustrating. It is ludicrous, for example, that...
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Over at LabourList, Nick Clegg pens a powerful post in favour of the strides taken in recent years to enshrine equal rights for gay people. Here’s an excerpt: Like many people, in 1997 I hoped that with the right cast into the political wilderness a permanent victory for gay rights was in sight. But discrimination still [...]
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Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
I have been reading LabourList to find this blog post by Nick Clegg and clearly I am amused and I am a little worried about the comments. Can Nick Clegg or anyone else please explain why the leader of the Lib Dems is writing on a Labour blog? Fair enough me writing on LabourList, Stephen Tall from LDV writing for LabourList even if a back bench Lib Dem MP did it but why the leader of the Lib Dems?...
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Walk This World With Me (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Today is both gay pride day here in London (which I shan't be going to, maybe next year but seeing Mrs Brown walking at the front of the parade whilst her husband fails to acknowledge our rights to equality would probably make me too angry to enjoy the rest of the day) and Independence Day in the USA. Whilst our LGBT friends in America continue the fight for gay marriage equality, over here we've sort...
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UK Autism News (Free subscription) | yesterday
IT Pro Portal News - Fresh from their success in getting the Gurkhas the same rights as other Commonwealth soldiers, national newspaper the Daily Mail is siding with Gary McKinnon to prevent the government from extraditing him to the US. On Friday, the newspaper dedicated its front page to the new campaign that it decided to back. It has published several articles about the case and has even published...
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Freemania (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Audit Commission is a public corporation that describes itself as “an independent watchdog, driving economy, efficiency and effectiveness in local public services to deliver better outcomes for everyone”. Its areas of work are: auditing local public services; carrying out performance assessments for councils, fire and rescue services, and housing organisations; producing research; and...
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Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday I read in Patrick Hannan's book A Useful Fiction : "As for those Dawkins opposes [religions] , it's difficult to escape the conclusion that, far from concerning themselves with central questions of belief and the way in which they should shape the lives of their congregations, Christian churches have become almost completely preoccupied by disputes about the sexual practises of the clergy."...
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I started this blog, I kept in mind that I had/have political ambitions, so I refrained from swearing, I refrained from personal attacks on any politicians (like Harriet Harman sending her kids to grammar schools, but not supporting the grammar school system), and I certainly didn't combine the two to say something like "that complete bastard Ed Balls". However, I've come to the conclusion...
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Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
I know that service personnel and their families often get a raw deal - there have been scandals about our troops being ill equipped on duty , badly cared for if they are injured and poorly housed at home . Now I discovered in today's Sunday Herald that the MOD includes travelling time from places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the calculation of soldiers' leave. So, exhausted troops, who may have faced...
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Nick Clegg MP The fight against Section 28 helped define my generation. It created stark dividing lines. Stopping councils from distributing material showing gay relationships in a positive light was flagrantly homophobic. There were those of us who knew that. And there were those people who bought into the...
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Webeufobelievers (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
In these times of political turmoil, cross-party consensus is hard to find.So it is all the more significant that three of Britain's senior politicians, from all the main parties, are calling for the deportation of Gary McKinnon to be reconsidered.David Cameron, Nick Clegg and former Home Secretary David Blunkett have all spoken in support of the Mail's campaign.And, in an unprecedented
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Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
There has been a lot of discussion about why the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg posted his piece on gay rights on LabourList rather than say Lib Dem Voice. My good friend Caron says that we wouldn't allow an opposition politician house room on any Lib Dem election leaflet, and quite right too. But then doesn't LDV allow guest posts from politicians and commentators from different hues. Jennie doesn't hold...
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Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Slot God parasite Cherie Blair thinks we should let everyone out of prison over at Labourlist . Over the last few years, as a part-time judge, I have on occasion given custodial sentences to the guilty. Get over there and add your abuse to the list Meanwhile, Nick Clegg feels left out of the handbags at dawn squabble over the "vaseline" vote, also at Labourlist I'm off to have some heterosexual...
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Nick Clegg MP (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Nick Clegg Visits Leeds Rugby Foundation Schools Training Session 2nd July 2009 Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats yesterday visited Leeds on the latest leg of his Outside Westminster tour, travelling across the UK to see initiatives that are making change for good and to meet real people. Leeds Rhinos & Leeds Rugby Foundation Nick was met in [...]
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Labour strategists have attempted to turn the tables on the opposition parties with the launch of the government's “Building Britain's Future” plan for the economy, public services and the constitution. What the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called a “hotchpotch of unrelated Whitehall schemes” has in fact been carefully thought out inside cabinet. The success or failure of...
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