As someone claimed that we hadn’t addressed the issue of expenses in the Lords I thought I should put the record straight. If you type in the search box ‘expenses’ you will find quite a few entries from me and others. Recently we introduced a new system which will take effect from October. It is IMV a…
Some good news on the foreign affairs front. Kenya completed it’s referendum on the new constitution peacefully which if you recall the violence that surrounded the general election and the loss of over 1000 lives must be given a thumbs up.
The sad news of the death of Dr Woo and her colleagues comes at the same time as the news that a UK policeman has been shot and killed in Afghanistan. In many ways this goes to the heart of the problem in Afghanistan and some other developing country’s. It may be a long time…
July was a particularly heavy month for me so I have been absent from the blog. I will now try and make up for lost time during August – it might enable some of my more industriuos colleagues to take a well earned rest! Throughout this time I have been watching the increasingly authoritarian regime in…
I’m having a tutorial on how to use these three social networks and I am interested to see if I can use them to extend the reach of Lords of the Blog.
