If the election result is the same as in 2005, the Daily Politics calculate there will be 30 ethnic minority MPs – 21 Labour, eight Conservative & one Respect.
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Even after the “change” election, Parliament will remain unrepresentative
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Women still earn 20% less than men
Monday, March 8th, 2010An OECD study, published today to mark International Women’s Day, reveals that, globally, women are paid almost a fifth less than men.
Never mind the 1689 Bill of Rights, the Contempt of Court Act 1981 could scuttle any prosecution
Monday, February 8th, 2010With all the talk in the media being of the “expenses 3″ – David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Elliot Morley – being able to avoid a criminal trial by asserting parliamentary privilege under the 17th-century English Bill of Rights, the importance of the more recent Contempt of Court Act appears to have been overlooked.
In their [...]
Why we must stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our fellow Fabian
Friday, January 29th, 2010At half-time in Tony Blair’s testimony to the Iraq Inquiry, let us recall the horror of Saddam’s regime, and the threat he posed to his own people, the region and the wider world. One need only cast minds back to this Monday, and the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid – aka Chemical Ali.
Here’s a reminder [...]
Notes on a coup
Friday, January 8th, 2010So that’s that then. At the end of a week in which the country suffered insufferable Arctic temperatures, snow storms, blizzards, ice, more ice and plagues of locusts (well, not quite!), we’re back where we started. It’s like the last seven days never happened.
I’m talking, of course, about the failed attempt to overthrow the Prime [...]
Simon who?
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009There were blank faces all round as a panel of experts at Demos’s event last nightseemed to shrug “Simon Who?” in response to a question about the X-Factor Tsar