Libel reform – urgent!
For those not on the Libel Reform Campaign e-mail listing, I reproduce here the text of an e-mail I’ve just received from the campaign organisers. Your help is needed. —————————————————————– […]
Category Archives: Politics
Libel Reform: Defamation Bill – Third reading: House of Lords… again
Dear [MP], Thank you for your e-mail of 20 February 2013, as provided by your Caseworker, XXX, in response to mine of 12 February. May I commence by stating that […]
Libel Reform: Defamation Bill – Third reading: House of Lords… today!
The Defamation Bill receives its Third reading in the House Of Lords today. Those who might have assumed that its passage has been progressing all tickety-boo would do well to […]
Toeing the toadying line
It is ironic that, in the constitutional republic that is the USA, with its constitutionally enshrined separation of church and state, any pretenders to high public office tend to not […]
Policial III: when not voting speaks
Without wondering as to why, with turnout so low, it took so long to return results, I’m bemused by some of the reaction to the PCC elections. My local organ […]
Policial II: to vote or not to vote?
Further to my musings on the worthwhileness of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections taking place today, I sent what I consider a not entirely impertinent e-mail inquiry to all six […]
Policial
The first elections for the newly created post of Police and Crime Commissioner are to take place in England and Wales this coming week. Voting is an important right, so, […]
A cHunt-er on abortion
I’m hardly the first to air a view on this, and what with ground already covered, and a week away (deliberately) incommunicado in The Lake District, I wasn’t going to […]
Lee Turnpenny 