The Vetting and Barring Scheme is a new scheme by which people who will be working with children will have to be registered in a central database, to avoid the possibility of exposing The Children to registered sex offenders. The scheme was initiated after the Soham muders and will come into effect in October. Surprisingly, [...]
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Some people look back fondly on Tony Blair as the prime minister who presided over ten years of economic growth. For the younger readers, economic growth is something that used to happen in the 90s. The middle classes would take out buy-to-let mortgages they could not really afford to buy property they did not need. [...]
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You have to believe me when I say that I tried. I tried. God knows I tried. I tried so hard to stay away from the “scandal” that has been raging in the UK for the past few days around MPs’ expense declarations. Or as it has unavoidably been dubbed: “expensegate”. Sigh. I tried. Because [...]
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Environmentalists protesting against a third runway at Heathrow – really, this backwards little airport only has two runways – reached a new low today as they threw green custard in Business Secretary Peter Mandelson’s face. Really?! Like it’s not bad enough wasting England’s only decent contribution to the world of food, you have to add [...]
Tom Harris is the Labour MP for Glasgow South. But he’s not just an MP, he also has a blog and it’s not just about politics:
If you believe that politicians take themselves too seriously, you might enjoy it.
I do believe that, Tom, I do!
If you think they should take themselves very seriously indeed, or shouldn’t [...]
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In an article written for The Guardian, Jack Straw – Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary and former Home and Foreign secretary and much more – claims that talk of the UK becoming a police state is daft and that the current government has done more to extend freedom than any before.
They may well have done, [...]
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