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Thursday, July 31, 2025
No one, at least no one with even a semi-functioning intelligence, is under any illusions that the Labour party offers any substantive alternative to...
How Dorset and South West England MP's voted in the Syria debate of 29th August 2013.
Today the Gagging Bill, otherwise known as the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration, reaches the House of Lords for its...
For a long time I have wondered whether the House of Commons serves any useful function. Certainly senior civil servants have dubbed it the...

Women in Democracy

Parliament Week is a national programme of events and activities designed to inspire, engage and connect people with parliamentary democracy. To mark the start...
Conor Burns, Christopher Chope, Richard Drax, Tobias Ellwood, Oliver Letwin, Robert Syms and Robert Walter all voted not to accept EU assistance in helping the hungry this...
Tony Benn said: “Nobody can extend their own life by more than a minute, on the other hand if you study history you extend...
A lobbyist named 'Hoare' standing for MP. Surely not. Following the shipping in of David Cameron's lobbyist friend to run for MP in North...
Since 2010 we have witnessed and experienced seven long years of bitter Conservative betrayals, from David Cameron's pledge that there would be no top...
The bible is a remarkable book, it has influenced and shaped world history for nearly 2000 years. It is an apocryphal tale which many...