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PMQs – The Game
For political geeks, summer is tedious. The Canadian House of Commons adjourned for the summer recess back in June, and they won’t be back until 19 September. Luckily, we still had the UK House of Commons sitting into July, but alas, they too adjourned on 20 July. UK MPs will be taking a shorter break [...]
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The irony of the situation at the moment, with markets opening tomorrow morning, is that the biggest threat to the world financial system comes from a few right-wing nutters in the American Congress rather than the eurozone. – Vince Cable, Business Secretary, 24 July 2011 Related Posts:Quote of the dayQuote of the dayQuote of the [...]
Perceptions of parliamentary procedure: is the grass really greener?
Last week’s appearance by Rupert and James Murdoch before the UK House of Commons Select Committee on Culture Media and Sport (which you can view here if you missed it) as well as Prime Minister David Cameron’s ministerial statement in the House of Commons the following day (viewable here) received global media attention. Many Canadian [...]
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You will not destroy us. You will not destroy our democracy, or our commitment to a better world. No one will bomb us to silence. No one will shoot us to silence. No one will ever scare us away from being Norway. – Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway, 22 July 2011 Related Posts:Quote of [...]
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Cardinal Josef Ratzinger said: “Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.” As the Holy See prepares its considered response to the Cloyne Report, as Taoiseach, I am making it absolutely clear, that when it comes to the protection of the [...]
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That everyone knew journalists and the police were engaged in petty barter does not make it acceptable, let alone legal. Nor is it edifying to know how far politicians and editors are in and out of each other’s houses. But it is not the fall of the Berlin Wall or the Nuremberg trials. The downtrodden [...]
Democratic legitimacy vs parliamentary efficiency
Former Prime Minister John Major’s recent speech to the Ditchley Foundation attracted media attention because of his proposals for Scotland, which I’ve written about here. However, Major also put forward some very interesting proposals for reforming how Parliament works. This got brief mention in the press – primarily his idea of appointing to the House [...]
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The trouble with a cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying for it. – Marshall McLuhan Related Posts:Quote of the dayQuote of the dayQuote of the dayQuote of the dayQuote of the day
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. – Marshall McLuhan Related Posts:Quote of the dayQuote of the dayQuote of the dayQuote of the dayQuote of the day
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