October 2009
Refuting the TaxPayers’ Alliance on ‘cap and trade’ (Part 2)
The TPA have responded to my blog this morning “TaxPayers’ Alliance US scare tactics uncovered” with an attempt to justify […]
Welsh Labour leadership: “Now we are three”
Confirmation from Carwyn Jones, Welsh Counsel General and Leader of the House, has brought to three the number of candidates […]
Flying to Manchester? Well that’s just criminal!
Fresh from watching his former adviser convicted of fraud yesterday, Boris Johnson faces further embarrassment with the revelation the celebrity […]
Grieve had “long been a supporter” of the Human Rights Act
A would-be Conservative government plans to repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights which will "enable the UK to rebalance laws in favour of public protection." But the Conservatives are confused. Dominic Grieve previously said, “As is probably well known to my colleagues and possibly to other hon. Members, I have long been a supporter of the incorporation of a human rights bill into our law."
True Tory agenda of public service profit revealed
Right-wing think tanks have revealed the true Tory public services agenda with a coordinated set of policy recommendations to encourage the break up of the NHS into competing social insurers and to allow private companies to profit from state education.
Tory MEP’s false claims on gay rights
Charles Tannock MEP sought to defend his party's record on gay rights last night but his own history of opposing equalities legislation has come under scrutiny.