Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Following the correspondence in The Citizen recently re music in public places I sent this response this morning: Photo: Moss Barbara Gardiner's call for action against music and news in public places is to be welcomed (The Citizen letters 15/09/08). The Green Party peer Lord Beaumont of Whitley in 2006 introduced a Private Member’s Bill to ban piped music and televisions in public areas of
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at the age of 89. Dr Michael Nicholson, of University College Oxford, and Lord Pearson of Rannoch, UK guardian to Solzhenitsyn's son, talk about the man who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels.
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
HEY kids, wanna play a game of green shirts and baddies? NPower, the electricity people, want you, the Britisher Jungvolk, to inform on your mums and your dads if they disobey the rules on climate change. Grab a gas mask, a tin hat and come closer. Baroness Young of Old Scone, head of the Environment Agency, says [...]
PJC Journal (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
In an attempt to force the Government to admit what the constitutional position of the Queen will be before and after the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, Lord Willoughby de Broke has tabled the following amendment to the European Union (Amendment) Bill, currently doing its final round in the House of Lords.
Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Yesterday Lord Patel was able, after my Lord Bishop of Norwich Rt Revd Graham James so beautifully intoned the customary Prayers before business, to hear Baroness Hayman, the Lord Speaker announce "My Lords, I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967, that the Queen has signified her Royal Assent to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act." This curious Bill has
Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 19/04/2008
Tim Beaumont, Lord Beaumont of Whitley (above) died on 8th April. I only met him a couple of times - I remember a very pleasant conversation with him about his Bill to prohibit piped music and the showing of television programmes in the public areas of hospitals - and to require the wearing of headphones by persons listening to music in the public areas of hospitals - a move to curb noise pollution...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Obituary: Clergyman and Liberal Democrat peer who ultimately switched to the Green party
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Timothy Beaumont was the publisher of a string of radical religious magazines who became a prominent member of the Liberal Party, serving as chairman of the party, 1967-68, then president, 1969-70. Created a life peer in 1967, he went on to make parliamentary history in November 1999 when he crossed the floor of the House of Lords from the Lib Dems to become the first (and still the only) Green Party...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Lord Beaumont of Whitley, the only Green Party peer and a former Liberal Party chairman, dies at the age of 79.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Lord Beaumont of Whitley became the Green Party's only member of either House of Parliament in 1999 after spending most of his life and a good deal of his fortune helping the Liberal and then Liberal Democrat Party. In his long career he had alternated between the church and politics.
PJC Journal (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Lord Pearson of Rannoch has introduced an amendment in Committee to the European Union (Amendment) Bill. This will have the effect of calling for a Referendum 6 months after this Bill received the Royal Assent and becomes and Act.
Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
The uk Independence Party is to hold its annual South West rally at Exeter University's Great Hall on Saturday, March 8, between 11am and 5pm. UKIP leader Nigel Farage will be among the speakers, who also include Lord Pearson of Rannoch, Professor ...
Bristol Evening Post (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
The head of the Environment Agency has warned that government plans for a Severn barrage would do irreversible damage to the estuary's natural habitats. Baroness Young of Old Scone claimed the controversial £15 billion scheme to help the fight ...
A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 23/11/2007
On the eve of today's first anniversary of the death of Alexander Litvinenko, who was murdered by polonium poisoning in London, Akhmed Zakayev gave a memorial tribute to the former FSB officer at an event hosted by Lord Pearson of Rannoch. From the conclusion of the speech: As a man of strong moral principle, Sasha embarked [...]
Mike Ion (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Denis MacShane has written to both Baroness Hayman and David Cameron to seek clarification as to whether the noble Lord Ashcroft is domiciled in the UK in the full tax-paying sense. I wonder what the reply will be? Baroness Hayman Lords Speaker House of Lords London SW1 9 November 2007 Lord Ashcroft I am writing to you to see if you can clarify the status of Lord Ashcroft as a UK tax-paying resident...
