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Tag Archives: UK Politics
Taking Liberties
The British Library’s “Taking Liberties” exhibition opens tomorrow, and will be open until March. It is free, and should be well worth a visit. There is an interactive online tool which examines a lot of the issues
Posted in Civil Liberties Also tagged Byzantium, Civil Liberties, Liberty, London, Taking Liberties, UK Leave a comment
More Data Loss
So, the Government has managed to lose a USB stick containing the details of tens of thousands of criminals.
We should not focus on the fact that this is the data of criminals – that will be of little concern to many – but instead look at what’s happened here in terms of data protection. [...]
People in favour of an English Parliament
Via Toque we see that in a Mori poll, 41% of people favoured an English parliament. This sounds like 59% don’t, but not so:
41 per cent said they favoured an English Parliament ‘with similar law-making powers to the Scottish Parliament’ and Only 32 per cent said they were happy with an unchanged House of Commons.
Source: [...]
Posted in English Parliament, Letters Also tagged Devolution, England, English Parliament, Parliament, Scottish Parliament, United Kingdom 1 Comment
BBC seat predictor
A response from the BBC:
We are sorry you feel the application is deficient by not having a section for calculating seats in England.
For budgetary and technical reasons we had to keep the number of options on the seat calculator to a minimum and, as in other areas of our election and general political coverage, decided [...]
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Gordon Brown on Leaks