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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...

COMMENT: What is Islamism? A Muslim Replies by Religion Compass Exchanges on Nov 19, 2009By Ishtiaq Hussain The Quilliam Foundation Download full PDF version Background Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam is an Abrahamic faith and a Monotheistic religion. Its followers are called Muslims. Islam was founded in Arabia in the 7th century...

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...

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...

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...

Kelly Report into MP Expenses – Summary of Changes by The Wardman Wire on Nov 5, 2009The Kelly Report has been published this week, and like the Legg Report from a few weeks ago, the Kelly Report is a further step in the right direction. To my mind the basic principle that must underlie any new system, and which must be pursued rele...

Norwich North by-election report undermines the case for Friday counting by The Wardman Wire on Nov 2, 2009Although this summer’s Parliamentary by-election in Norwich North kicked off much subsequent debate about the alleged benefits of Friday (rather than Thursday night) counts after it was counted on a Friday, a close reading of the Electoral Comm...

Is Medvedev’s “Go Russia!” Going Anywhere? by CrisisCrunch on Oct 26, 2009By Martina Bozadzhieva, The PBN Company, Washington, DC On September 10th President Medvedev surprised both Russian and international observers with an unexpectedly honest and critical article about Russia’s strategic challenges. Medvedev decri...