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• in Politics
  UK Coalition Crack Up?
  Cracks start to show in the UK's coalition government.
  by jasonshaw99 / on Aug 7, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “house of lords”

 

• Christians called to pray at Parliament in opposition to equal marriage bill

  
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  Christians are being encouraged to attend organised prayer meetings near the Houses of Parliament this month, in order to oppose the equal marriage bill, and to coincide with its third reading. The Adamantly homophobic group Christian Concern, has organised the intermittent prayer meetings to take place outside ...
  6 days ago

• Andrew Adonis interview: I learned to survive very young

  
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  Lord Adonis challenging start in life – he was in care as a boy – shaped his political perspective. His new book provides his own fascinating account of the five days that gave us the coalition In an extraordinary series of photographs of Gordon Browns last moments at No 10 by the Guardians Martin Argles , ...
  1 week ago

• Richard Dawkins wants to revive the Victorian establishment | Andrew Brown

  
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  The arch-secularists proposal for the House of Lords harks back to a time when the Church of England had bite Richard Dawkins is at it again. He says he wants the bishops out of the House of Lords, which is not a complete surprise. The novelty is that he wants them replaced with elected members of the secular ...
  1 week ago

• Lord Carey: The Government has ignored minority churches on same-sex marriage

  
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  Lord George Carey of Clifton told the House of Lords yesterday that the Government has painted opponents of marriage equality as a “strange breed of non-relevant dinosaurs” while ignoring minority ethnic and religious communities. Following  comments by Lord Fowler on the recent Queen’s Speech, Lord Carey ...
  1 week ago

• Conservative peer Baroness O’Cathain: ‘The Government should admit same-sex marriage is a mistake’

  
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  Speaking to the House of Lords yesterday, Baroness Detta O’Cathain told peers that marriage should be reserved for heterosexual couples, claiming that children show “superior social, emotional and cognitive development” when raised by a married man and woman. The Conservative peer, known for opposing civil ...
  1 week ago

• Queens speeches since 1994: how many bills did they introduce?

  
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  Ahead of the 2013 state opening of parliament, we look at how long the Queens speech has been over the last two decades, and how many bills it introduced The Queen has been speaking at the State Opening of Parliament for more than 50 years – her first was in 1952 – and throughout that time controversies have ...
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• Nick Clegg reviews nuclear power

  
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  Hi, Cleggers here. Or ‘Cleggety Clops ‘ as I’m known in certain sections of The House of Lords. So then, nuclear powers – who wants one?  I had a meeting with a nuclear engineer man the other day, and he was a very interesting chap.  He was telling me all about radioactivity and why you need to wear ...
  1 week ago

• Save the NHS: The Next Moves for Campaigners, and a Transcript of the Lords’ Debate on Section 75

  
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  It’s now eleven days since the House of Lords voted against a motion proposed by the Labour peer, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, which was intended to strike down regulations relating to Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act that had caused alarm to campaigners when they surfaced in February . Following a massive ...
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• And thats why the United Kingdom needs serious investment in the energy sector...

  
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  Yes, I know, Lords European Union Select Committee, Sub-Committee D... doesnt exactly trip off of the tongue, does it? But perhaps we ought to pay more attention to it... Sub-Committee D is responsible for the scrutiny of European Union proposals on Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy (it also deals ...
  2 weeks ago

• Peter Tatchell: ‘Lobby the Lords for marriage equality’

  
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  “The biggest uncertainty facing the same-sex marriage bill is how the House of Lords will vote,” Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner and co-ordinator of the Equal Love campaign has warned. “We just don’t know how much opposition there will be in the upper house. It would be a big mistake to assume that ...
  3 weeks ago

• What the hell just happened with the Defamation Bill?

  
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  There’s a little bit of confusion over what happened during the Defamation Bill debate in the House of Lords yesterday afternoon, and today in the House of Commons. This is understandable, as the ‘ping-pong’ process is confusing, with ‘motions to agree amendments’… and amendments to those amendments. ...
  3 weeks ago

• George Osborne barters to save flagship workers share plan

  
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  After second Lords defeat, chancellor offers free legal advice to workers who take shares but surrender employment rights The chancellor was locked in a fight to rescue his plan to offer shares for workers in exchange for abandoning their employment rights, after making last minute concessions. George Osborne was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Who works the most hours - MPs or teachers?

  
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  The working hours of both teachers and MPs have both come under attack this week, but who really works the most hours? • Download the data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian The working hours of both teachers and MPs have been under attack this week. Margaret Hodge, the chair of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Save the NHS: Urge the Lords to Fight Privatisation, Plus Updates from Lewisham

  
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  Wednesday April 24 may be the day that the NHS dies — or that it lives on. On April 1, largely unnoticed by the people of England, the most popular institution in the land, the NHS (the National Health Service), was privatised by the Tory-led government , in regulations relating to Article 75 of the Health and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lazy MPs? Its PMQ-dodging Cameron we should be chasing | Michael White

  
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  What with holidays, Thatchers funeral and whatnot, more than two months will have passed with only one PMQ session each Margaret Hodge has had a long and chequered career as a politician . Council leader, MP and Labour minister, at 68 she looks like ending it on a high, as an activist and effective chairman of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nuggets-- Mostly Gun Control

  
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  Good news: Ken is out of the hospital and his operation was a complete success. Hopefully, hell be back in this slot soon. Meanwhile: bit and pieces I missed the last couple of days Arkansas ConservaDem Mike Ross Is Back Corrupt Blue Dog Mike Ross is throwing his hat into the ring in Arkansas ...
  4 weeks ago

• Labour makes bid for libel law amendment in Lords

  
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  Opposition tables reinstatement of clause in defamation bill to stop corporations using expensive laws to silence critics The Labour party is to launch a fresh bid in the Lords next week to stop big businesses from using expensive libel laws to silence their critics. The opposition has tabled a new amendment to the ...
  4 weeks ago

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