The Select Committee on Communications recently published a report on Media Plurality, that is, the need to secure many different voices and owners in the news output: as we put it – “achieving a workable approach to plurality, particularly in provision of news and current affairs, is generally considered fundamental to a well-functioning democratic society,…
I have just read in the Times about the “Scandal of wasted millions spent on the Olympic Games legacy projects.” I cannot resist referring you to my post of 9 February 2014, The Olympic Outrage, predicting precisely that outcome. Now we learn that taxpayers will be giving £200m towards a football stadium for West Ham (whose…
On Friday 12th December the Lords gave a Second Reading to Lord Lester and Lord Marks’ Cohabitation Rights Bill that would give many marriage rights and responsibilities to those who cohabited for two years, or who have children. I have blogged about this before (http://lordsoftheblog.net/2012/01/26/against-my-will/, http://lordsoftheblog.net/2011/01/07/love-and-marriage/, and so has Baroness Murphy http://lordsoftheblog.net/2009/03/13/cohabitation-bill/). I first wrote about…
Have you noticed that there aren’t any large comprehensive printed timetables on display boards at your station any longer? I am a regular commuter through Reading station, where redevelopment has been going on for years now. Millions have been spent to “iimprove” it and the work is not yet over. I used to be able to…
Vows are much in the news these days. All three party leaders have “vowed” to give Scotland more powers and to do so very quickly. Moreover Gordon Brown has vowed to ensure that this happens (surely he has no relevant status to achieve this?) The word “vow” comes from the Latin votum, which by an…
