As a newly elected MP in 1979 it seemed obvious to me that we needed to elect the Lords. No question about it! Unelected legislators in the age of democracy – it must be wrong! So like most MPs I took it for granted that Labour’s election manifesto of 1910 must finally be honoured. I…
My good friend Baroness Murphy observes that just because you are mad it doesn’t mean you are necessarily wrong! (See her post below) My evidence for the Health and Social Care Bill being a mad policy choice is that everyone including the Government will suffer for bringing in a Bill that was quite unnescessary. For those…
This Bill finally completed its weary journey through the House of Lords yesterday. I am still trying to work out whether the Government was mad or bad in pushing it through. It is bad because it will increase bureaucracy and costs without improving front line services. It is mad because the Government has alienated the very…
Should the News of the World have been closed or should the managers and owners resigned or been sacked. Closing a 150 year old newspaper was wrong.
