Perhaps Stealers Wheel had it right… so it’s time to speak my mind, isn’t it? I have been following the debate on internal party democracy with first interest, then frustration, and now a degree of numbing disbelief, as the Parliamentary Parties have taken significant flak from a cross-section of Party members and activists. And yet,

              This morning I spoke to the Maiden Erlegh Sixth Form as part of their General Studies. I was assured that Labour and Lib Dem representatives have been invited in to speak at later dates to provide balance.             I spoke to them about the changing landscape of ...

Staff at Wales' foremost race equality charity speak out about alleged bullying and harassment.

To mark this year's Holocaust Memorial Day, John Denham MP has signed a pledge to 'speak up and speak out' about the language of hatred. 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day, which is held to provide everyone with an opportunity to learn from the lessons of the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Dafur. The Holocaust Memorial Day Tr...

The words of Robbie Burns are quoted by Conservative MP Eleanor Laing and the prime minister to speak up for Scotland's role within the UK.

Johann Lamont MSP, Scottish Labour leader, said in response to Alex Salmond’s speech at the Hugo Young Lecture this evening:

Britain is free to ban foreign doctors from working in this country if they do not speak adequate English or there are concerns over their medical ability, an EU Commissioner insists today.

With small cars majoring in fun and frugality. In Renault-speak, VVT stands for intelligent. Further inclusions run to a wide cross section of buyers. Go too sporty and for every customer that's enthused, you risk alienating another but tread a conservative path and there's loads of seat adjustment for the renault clio dynamique 2001, the 1.6-litre VVT unit has 109bhp, so it isn't t...

Nag, nag, nag: If you click on that, you will see that this snap was snapped in a hardware store. A randomly selected one, as it happens, near to where I live. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, health and safety is, among other things, a business, and therefore an interest. If it diminished, money would be lost, money which knows it would be lost and which would therefore speak...

Unions accuse Labour of failing to speak up for "ordinary people" after Ed Balls indicates it will support a pay freeze for public sector workers.