Tag Archives: dictatorship

Bad journalism is bad for democracy

Lord Soley 18/10/2011 – 9:05 pm

There was a sad example of poor quality journalism in the London Evening Standard yesterday. Written by Craig Woodhouse the headline is 'Skiving' MPs want another holiday'. There are a lot of things you can say about MP's! not least about the failure to have a proper expenses system and some appalling examples of abuse. The one thing you cannot say is that the majority of them do not work long and […]

Home education and Iran

Lord Soley 21/02/2010 – 11:07 pm

I have spent some time reading the comments on the post concerning home education. I still have some more background reading to do but it has been useful. I think that some of the comments are unnecessarily aggressive and do not add to the argument. Hotly disputed issues like this need cool heads. I will consider taking part in the debate and I will also consider coming to a meeting as suggested b […]

Tyranny in the modern world

Lord Soley 05/01/2009 – 8:00 am

I have read the comments on my colleague Baroness D'Souza post concerning Zimbabwe (See her post 22.12.08 below) carefully. I agree with Baroness D'Souza that international politics does not attract much interest on this blog - a pity because it is one of my main interests! I also agree that organisations like the Westminster Foundation can be very helpful. I would like to put some of the comme […]