I am briefly surfacing for air today to write a piece on the madness that has come out of the “Equality Minister” Harriet Harman’s mouth today.
Before I start on this particular tirade (which it will be), I would like to apologise for blogging-lite recently. As I’ve indicated, my casework file has increased substantially, but a combination of business trips, bereavements, by-elections and local campaigns and meetings have left me with very little time of late.
Anyway, on to Harperson…
I was having a quick coffee with another politico* for one of our all-too-infrequent catch-ups in between meetings recently.
Half way through our conversation, he leaned forwards across the table and said in somewhat hushed tones, “what do you think of whipping?”
Update: David Davis has resigned his seat and called a by-election in his constituency of Haltemprice and Howden in protest at the Government’s 42-day detention vote. The LibDems have said they will not put up a candidate against him and the indications (but not confirmation) from Labour is that they won’t either (for obvious reasons).  I congratulate David Davis on this move and would like to thank Nick Clegg, who I understand was consulted about this last night. I know that David has been a strong and consistent campaigner for civil liberties - fighting ID cards, campaigning against over-use of CCTV and this move of principle fits entirely with his strength of feeling on the matter. Continue reading ‘42 Days…’
Apologies readers - I promised to write a piece on holistic environment policies by the weekend, but I’m afraid multiple work crises have prevented me from doing so. In addition, a large number of both professional and political assistants appear to either away or ill (I’m sure it’s the weather for both)!
I am in Boston (Massachusetts, not Lincolnshire) at the moment for a conference, where I am presenting to our senior North American leaders on Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR) Policies with an emphasis on environmental policies.
As the CSR lead in our UK group, as well as member of our Environment Committee and person in charge of energy buying, this is an area of expertise, which is why I wanted to write a piece. It is also why I have strong views on cdorporate ethics policies and their transferability to MPs’ code of conduct.
So comment moderation is switched on and I hope the weather in UK brightens up in the meantime!
As good friends will know, I do occasionally get in touch with the inner nerd, so it will come as no shock that rather than going to bed at a sensible time last night, I stayed up to watch a documentary I accidentally found after Newsnight called “Absolute Zero” on BBC2.
The basic premise of the programme was to go through the history of the concept of “cold”, from a time when people thought it was a physical property, through ice farming, steam engines, air conditioning and culminating in the race to reach the holy grail of cold - 0 Kelvin, or -273 Celsius.
I told you this was nerdy, but don’t close your browser just yet - there are a couple of important political points behind this.
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