Carrying on Lord Tyler’s theme, I am always pleased when Ministers, faced with a question they haven’t been adequately briefed about and can’t answer from their own experience, say upfront that they will seek advice, or get further information and respond later. I think all of us in the Health and Social Care Bill Grand…
Lord Norton (see post below) expresses well peers’ sense of frustration when debates in the Lords have thrashed out an issue, such as the provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and Lords have given the bill very good support and yet the passage through our House has been almost entirely ignored. Of course…
Sitting here blogging while waiting on tenterhooks for the vote in the Commons on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Musn’t watch more TV…I just heard a TV BBC 1 newsreader describe the debate on the creation of hybrid embryos for stem cell research as ‘a clash between science and ethics’. I was so angry…
I’ve just got back from a few days in Norway; while I was here to vote in the London Mayoral and local elections, I was abroad for the count and spent the next few days trying to catch up with the results. BBC World was perhaps understandably rather more focussed on Zimbabwe than on London.…
I feel rather guilty for not keeping up with my blogging this last few days. I have the excuse I was away ill last week but this week I have been busy two afternoons and evenings with Grand Committee in the Moses Room on the Health and Social Care Bill. The Moses Room is an…
