The Stonemason (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
said, in the Western Mail , that …… "… he had no desire to see Wales represented in Europe as an independent nation state." I take that as meaning Independence is off the menu. I wonder if he has discussed things with Plaid rank and file ? …
Marilyn Stowe divorce blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Today I appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour in a debate with Baroness Ruth Deech about the subject of cohabitation. Related posts: Why Baroness Deech is wrong – by guest blogger Jonathan James Baroness Deech holds some strong views about divorce and financial... Cohabitation: England v Scotland – by guest blogger Jenny Wilmot Compared to England and Wales, Scotland is an idyll...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A former head of the NHS under Labour is backing a Conservative policy to free the health service from tight government control.
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The British National Party mixed up two members of the House of Lords during a hate campaign waged on the internet, it has been revealed Lord Patel of Blackburn (Lab) told peers of his experiences with the ultra-nationalist group during the debate on the Queen's Speech yesterday. "I am myself a great lover of the internet and all that it brings, although I did have some problems of my own last...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This 1966 drama ticks most of the right boxes when it comes to entertaining as well as educating. Pity they didn't let Thomas More be more scatalogical than saintly Director: Fred Zinnemann Entertainment grade: B History grade: A– Sir Thomas More was a lawyer and scholar at the court of King Henry VIII. As a devout Catholic, he had serious reservations about the king's divorce from Catherine...
Security Products, Companies & News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
IDL has been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2009 Integrated Design Ltd has been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2009. Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea presented Margaret Lauder, IDL's longest serving employee, with the award. He visited IDL's new headquarters in Feltham at a reception for staff and suppliers, also...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
DUP LEADER Peter Robinson has dismissed the Eames-Bradley proposals for addressing the past and accused Lord Eames and Denis Bradley and other members of their group of engaging in an exercise in moral equivalence and ambivalence.
Tanzanite's Shelf and Stuff (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I posted about this book a few weeks ago on Weekly Wishlist: Secrets of the Tudor Court by D.L. Bodgan. US and UK release April 27, 2010. When young Mary Howard learns that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress Anne Boleyn, she is ecstatic. But soon Mary discovers that she is a pawn in a plot devised by her brutally ambitious father, the Duke of...
Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I just came across this quotation from Etienne Perlin, a French cleric, whose Description des Royaulmes d'Angleterre et d'Escosse was published in 1558, translated it reads For my part (with reverence to my reader) I had rather be a hog driver and keep my head, for this disorder falls furiously upon the heads of great lords (Eric Ives, Lady Jane Grey, 30) As a quote it sums up something of my own feeling...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The state opening of parliament is a sublime theatrical event let down by a poor script. We need Alan Bennett on the case Many people treat the annual state opening of parliament as just a piece of flummery – what Walter Bagehot called the "dignified" part of the constitution. But it's full of meaning if you watch it as a piece of theatre. (Of course, it's the same each year, but so...
ProLifeBlogs (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A group of leading lawyers, peers and former judges including Baroness Butler-Sloss, the former head of the family division of the High Court, are warning that the plans pose "serious dangers for public safety". In a significant intervention, they are warning the proposed changes go against the will of Parliament and risk reducing the Director of Public Prosecutions from an enforcer of the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Past and present heads of the Secret Intelligence Service to be questioned by Sir John Chilcot's investigation into war Past and present chiefs of MI6 are to be among the first witnesses to give evidence to the official inquiry into the Iraq war, it was disclosed today. Sir John Scarlett, who retired as director general of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) last month, will be questioned about...
Pepys' Diary (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This [morning] come Mr. Shepley (newly out of the country) to see me; after a little discourse with him, I to the office , where we sat all the morning, and at noon home , and there dined, Shepley with me, and after dinner I did pay him 70 l. , which he had paid my father for my use in the country. He being gone, I took coach and to Mrs. Pierce's, where I find her as fine as possible, and himself...
Transform Drug Policy Foundation (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
On Saturday Steve Rolles appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs show, the Today programme, to discuss drugs policy reform, specifically Transform's new book 'After the war on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation' (launched last week). Interviewed by John Humphries,Steve was joined by Tom Wainright from the Economist. You can listen to the audio on the BBC Today website here. Other media coverage...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
`ccfon' The former Director General of the BBC has called for atheists and humanists to contribute to BBC Radio 4’s Thought For the Day. Lord Birt said in a House of Lords debate on 4 November 2009 that the BBC must ‘soon loosen the stranglehold’ of established religious organisations and ‘fully embrace’ the humanist movement. The debate [...]
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