Tomorrow morning I have a main debate in the Chamber on the new National Dementia Strategy http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_094058 I’ve been finishing off my speech today…I will only get 15 minutes. It’s a truism that when you stop worrying about the kids, you start worrying about your parents and what you worry about is their minds failing.…
I’m getting a break today from the Lords, heading down to the South West with Monitor to visit NHS hospitals and authorities. So I got time to read a paper this morning. A wonderfully funny article by Libby Purves in the Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/libby_purves/article6498709.ece) is really worth a read if only for light relief. When I…
The Coroners and Justice Bill moves into the committee stages next week and those of us who are interested in it are at the stage of working up amendments, finding allies and trying to understand the Government’s intentions and deciding whether we agree with them or not. It’s not always obvious what the impact of…
Forget politics, bills, allowances, expenses; I’m going to blog about my best news in years….I’m going get an office in the Palace of Westminster itself. Well, not quite yet, it’ll be after recess in October, and not to myself of course, it’ll be shared with three others but I find to my delight the other…
Lord Norton’s got an interesting thread going, Lord Soley’s said his bit again and I’ll remind everyone that I gave my view about our Lords allowances system in my blog on 20 July 2008. If we are to avoid the House of Lords being occupied solely by the independently wealthy or those on generous pensions there has…
