Topic Archives: Social Security and pensions

A New Italian Symphony

Baroness Murphy 13/11/2011 – 9:59 am

I’m watching events in Italy with some trepidation and on Thursday I’m going to see for myself how matters are unfolding in our little corner of it. The general rejoicing at Berlusconi’s departure won’t of course automatically bring in a government able to tackle the grievous structural problems and zero growth. Even putting in Mario Monti, a highly respected and brainy economist, as P […]

Do you want to comment on the Welfare Reform Bill?

Baroness Murphy 24/09/2011 – 10:55 am

My last blog on the breakdown of the Usual Channels generated a torrent of comments on the Welfare Reform Bill. This is fine,  indeed very welcome but as a result of organisations passing on my parliamentary e-mail address I have now received a torrent of messages to which I am simply unable to respond adequately and that jam up my e-mail in-box. I regret I have now put up a standard response on […]

Legitimate legislation

Baroness Murphy 26/08/2011 – 5:49 pm

I’m back. Regular readers know very well where I’ve been so I won’t go on about how lovely it was and I have to say it’s very hard to come back to the grey skies of Norfolk and today’s torrential rain. We needed it for the garden but why couldn’t it have fallen out of the skies when I was elsewhere? I’ve been beefing up on the Welfare Reform Bill (second reading in the Lords comin […]