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Harriet Harman on Mobile Phones and Driving with Due Care and Attention by The Wardman Wire on Nov 20, 2009Exerpted from Hansard, in 2004, when Harriet Harman was Solicitor General: Mr David Kidney (Stafford, Labour) To ask the Solicitor-General how many road vehicles are operated by the Department and its agencies; how many personal injury accidents inv...

Dennis Skinner MP’s Queen’s Speech Interventions by The Wardman Wire on Nov 20, 2009My local MP is Dennis Skinner, who has a personal tradition of poking fun at Royalty on the occasion of a Queen's Speech. Wikipedia has collected some of his quotes together. Here are a few examples.My local MP is Dennis Skinner, who has a personal t...

Young people drying up like puddles on a sunny day: useful tools by The Wardman Wire on Nov 18, 2009There is a tool available to show graphically changes in population over time between 1992 and 2031. The website provides an interactive map that graphically illustrates the extent to which age profile of the UK will change over the next few years. T...

Numerology: Money Spent on Additional Cost Allowance 2005-2008 vs Repayments following Legg Report by The Wardman Wire on Nov 16, 2009There has been a lot of trumpetting goung on about how the repayments due from MPs after the Legg Report Audit are now going to top one million pounds: I thought it would be useful to put this in context. It amounts to slightly over 2% of the Additio...

Weekend voting: will this be the next trend in trying to raise turnout at elections? by The Wardman Wire on Nov 16, 2009Over the last few years a wide range of attempts have been made to raise turnout at elections in the UK. The broad conclusion is very simple: all-postal ballots raise turnout significantly (albeit at the cost of various drawbacks) and nothing else th...

99 Red Balloons: Liberal Vision on New Labour by The Wardman Wire on Nov 15, 2009I missed this when it was made in June. Here's Liberal Vision's take on the rise and fall of New Labour - set to 99 Red Balloons by Nena. Contains graphic violence. I missed this when it was made in June. Here’s Liberal Vision’s take on...

Numerology: How to make MP pay rises look very small by The Wardman Wire on Nov 13, 2009In March 2008, before the MP Expenses scandal had been broken into the wider knowledge of the public, even though some of us were writing about it (Hem-Hem!), a research paper (08/31) was published by the House of Commons to give background context t...

Libel Law Redux: Latest Reports on the Defamation Roadshow by The Wardman Wire on Nov 10, 2009There have been several good reports in the last day or two about UK Defamation Law. Let me highlight two which are particularly well argued, and a good summary.There have been several good reports in the last day or two about UK Defamation Law. Let...

Take Action: Libel Law Consultation on Multiple Publication Rule by The Wardman Wire on Nov 10, 2009Following on from my earlier post about English Defamation Law, Paul Bradshaw (who blogs mainly about the future of Journalism) highlights an important opportunity to start the process of reforming our Defamation Laws. The "Multiple Publication" rule...

The Pope’s extraordinary offer: an apostate’s view by The Wardman Wire on Nov 9, 2009We've heard a number of religious views about the Pope's extraordinary offer to allow Church of England priests who can't stomach women bishops to convert to Rome. Here is the view of an excommunicated apostate. Isn't this really about some extremely...