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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
Assuming Assistant Commissioner John Yates shows up at the House of Commons today to face a grilling by the Public Administration Select Committee over his handling of the cash-for-peerages inquiry, how will he cope with the subsequent interrogation? Not long after Dr David Kelly faced a similar ordeal at the hands of a Labour dominated Select Committee he went for a 'walk in the woods'.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/22/2007
The leader and cabinet of a council criticised for its education system face a vote of no confidence.
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ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 10/20/2007
There's a rumour going around that in the near future political parties in the UK will be obliged in European elections to stand under the banner of their European parliamentary group or party. This seems fair enough to me on the face of it, and will make people aware of which party they are really voting for on an European level. However, there is some difference between an European party and an European...
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Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 10/20/2007
Playlist Various – Jukebox Shuffleplay Mendelssohn – String Quartets Uriah Heep – Travellers in Time : Anthology Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anthology Fripp & Eno – Evening Star Allan Holdsworth - Velvet Darkness Coldplay - The Remixes Another sleepless night... Anne was up early as she was off to Manchester with Lynn this morning – and off she went just after 8 am as if she was just going to work...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
LONDON (Reuters) - Politicians have called for the police to investigate ITV over its premium-rate phone-ins after a report revealed that viewers had spent millions of pounds on competitions they had no chance of winning. Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price...
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ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
I've no doubt that the Conservative blogosphere will be rife with attacks on the EU treaty agreement today. David Cameron made a quick but impressive appearance on BBC Breakfast this morning, presenting what I believe many viewers will have found to be a convincing argument in favour of a referendum and against the treaty. Plaid Cymru's official line is, I believe, in favour of a referendum and a 'Yes'...
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ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
Today Ieuan Wyn Jones reaches his 100th day as Deputy First Minister . He has already compiled a long list of achievements he pins down to Plaid's presence in government: Hospital reconfiguration plans are under review, nurses have not suffered having their wage increase split in two. The budget is expected to feature business rate relief measures, help for pensioners to pay council tax bills, support...
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Hirwaun Online (Free subscription) | 10/18/2007
Warnings not to downgrade services have followed the announcement of a review of the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr. The Health Minister Edwina Hart has announced that Professor Mansel Aylward will conduct a review of services at the hospital. She has now also dissolved the Pontypridd and Rhondda NHS Trust, and North Glamorgan NHS Trust, and [...]
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Dissensus (Free subscription) | 10/17/2007
COMBAT015 :: Cinder Cones & Animal Bones E.P. Artist: Point B Format: 12 vinyl 4 tracker Release: mid-November 2007 Style: electro / 2-step / dubstep Distribution: Veto.co.uk click to listen: A1 Gymede A2 Embrionic B1 The Insider (Blackmass Plastics VIP) B2 E Blade South London electronics maestro Point B steps up for Combat 15 , delivering 3 slices of sleek, chunky mutant electro 2-step, reinforced...
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Normal Mouth (Free subscription) | 10/17/2007
For a party often branded as an irrelevance, an awful lot of excited copy has been devoted to the recent tumults of the Lib Dems. The past few months have been torrid for the party. Disappointing results in English local and Scottish Parliamentary elections were mirrored in Wales, where the party mystifyingly compounded its misery by refusing to entertain a Lib-Lab coalition – and then allowed
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Martin Eaglestone (Free subscription) | 10/15/2007
No not a reference to Ming, but the implosion that seems to be hitting Plaid Cymru around the schools reorganisation in Gwynedd . With a new political "party" also in the making for next May's council elections it is clear that Plaid face a difficult 9 months as they struggle to reconcile a responsibility for efficient public services with the decline in the numbers of young people in our midst. Anyway...
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Miserable Old Fart (Free subscription) | 10/14/2007
Alan in Dyfed is clearly a Plaid Cymru sycophant who can't see any fault in his own party. He has claimed, in many a comment, that I am some sort of a lesser Welshman because I'm not a party member and that those of you who are supporters of other parties are almost beyond redemption unless, of course, you have a change of heart on the road to Llanascus. Some have suggested that Alan is such a
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Idolator (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Hey, commenter that made the Bim Skala Bim reunion joke yesterday, I'll go you one better. Because "the ska-core-est band of all time" is back, according to the Boston Phoenix : This time it's official. The [Mighty Might Bosstones] announced a full-fledged Hometown Throwdown -- which in its day was the precursor to Dropkick Murphys' St. Paddy's Day homestand and Darkbuster's Hometown Throwup -- at...
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Aberavon & Neath Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
Ming Camphell drew attention to one of them today at Prime Minister's Questions: we still believe in Local Income Tax to replace the unfair Council Tax. Labour and now, it seems, Plaid Cymru , want to stick with the Tory tax which penalises householders on low fixed incomes.
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BBC Blog Network (Free subscription) | 10/09/2007
It's double whammy day. Seatbelts on for the Pre-Budget Report and the Comprehensive Spending Review rolled into one. Today we get to find out how much money the Chancellor expects to have to play with for the next few years, how much of it he's going to hand out and to who. (Yes, I know that should be 'whom' but you don't write words like 'whom' in a blog do you?!) Why are we having such a big budget...
