There is an anomaly in our society. Savings are taxed, debt is not - and there are even tax relief available in certain circumstances ( though mortgage tax relief has gone ). And now our society is drowning in debt - private and public. House prices are a clear example of the destruction caused by debt which enslaves most of our population. We see rising house prices as good. The government makes ...

Lib Dem MP David Heath’s private member’s bill to provide help for those suffering from fuel poverty fell in the House of Commons this afternoon. It required 100 votes to pass, which it lacked thanks to the absence of most MPs and the opposition of government whips. The full list of those who did turn

Here is the latest business statement for the House of Commons. You'll notice the mysterious absence of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that had been due to return to the Commons next week, but now won't be coming back...

I am left wondering if someone is farting too much having read this written question,Mr. Burstow: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what the House of Commons Commission's most recent assessment is of the efficiency of the ventilation systems in each building in the House of Commons part of the parliamentary estate.Too many subsidised baked beans?

To give you a break from expenses… On Friday the Commons will be debating a Private Members Bill that was introduced to the house by Tory MP Christopher Chope. The Bill is called The Employment Opportunities Bill 2008-09 which aims to “introduce more freedom, flexibility and opportunity for those seeking employment in the

This is full text of the speech by Richard Howitt MEP to the Labour East Regional Conference yesterday: So the whole of the Eurozone is imploding. Europe including Britain is plummeting into a 1930s-style recession and Tory Eurosceptics actually get as far as forcing a vote in the House of Commons which in reality is about Britain leaving the European Union... I think I'd better start by sayi...

Gordon Brown's flagship bill intended to clean up Parliament has come under unprecedented criticism from the Clerk of the House of Commons.

G.K Chesterton said: “Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.” This debate has obliged the House of Commons to consider how we define human life and how we regard humanity. Surely humanity means that

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill passed its Third and final Reading in the House of Commons on 22nd October. MPs approved it by 355 votes to 129. The Bill then passed to the Lords and thence for Royal Assent. And so it came to pass that on the eighth day Parliament created animal-human hybrids, so-called ‘saviour siblings’, and fatherless IVF children, because God had shown ...

OK - so am going to try and blog the process of legislation through the Equality Bill. To date - we have had the First Reading of the Bill (a formality) and then the Second Reading , which happens in the chamber of the House of Commons and where the Bill overall is debated. We have had 'evidence' sessions where witnesses (groups with particular interest in the Bill) give their views on parts of th...