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It really does come to a pretty pass when the Leader of the House of Commons is asked to express confidence in the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Serjeant at Arms and three times declines to do so. It hasn't been a good day for Harriet Harman, has it? Skewered by Eddie Mair, and now by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight. If the Leader of the House of Commons doesn't have confidence in T...

      

Read this article and tell me you are not worried. Especially after the tone taken by certain members of the British Government towards blogs, and the internet in general. I half expected this stuff from our leftie, authoritarian government. But from someone who I had a lot of time for, someone who claimed to be a right winger who valued the free market and free expression? Shame on you, Mr Berlus...

As broke by Two Doctors earlier today, the entire staff of the Herald and the Evening Times have been made reduntant in a downsize of the operation. Currently there is a combined staff of 240 but all staff are being made redundant in order to apply for 200 jobs. This is yet another desperately sad day for journalism.It's only natural to not agree with everything you read in a newspaper but yo...

At long last, after being registered on Facebook for two years, I have found something that Facebook is actually useful for ! Hat Tip to : Things and Stuff

1. Laura Sandys on Our Kingdom explains the parallels between the Damian Green case and her father's (Duncan Sandys) in the 1930s. 2. Shaun Bailey on the Blue Blog attends the Damilola Taylor memorial service with David Cameron. 3. Nigel Fletcher on why the Met Commissioner should be brought to the bar of the House of Commons. 4. Kerron Cross is reduced to saying that Tories are being beastly...

The biggest lenders are struggling to work out the details of a hastily arranged scheme designed to prop up the housing market and add lustre to an otherwise dull Queen's Speech

The Commons gave a formal first reading to the outlawries bill, as it always does. This tradition dates back to 1588. This bill has no content and no obvious purpose. Sets the tone for the year then

FleetM8 inventor Dr. Tann was alleged to have been doing 42mph in a 30mph zone and proved with his pateted technology, that he was doing less than 30mph. BBC Report here The Police dropped the case. If Mrs. Whitmore, in the report below, had had the FleetM8 Solo device fitted to her vehicle then she would have been able to access her own data and show exactly what speed she was doing at the time s...