Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto, K299 / Flute Concerto No. 1, K313 / Andante in C, K315 / Bassoon Concerto, K191 - Lisa Beznosiuk / Frances Kelly / Danny Bond / The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The expenses scandal claimed its latest victim last night when the Tory MP in charge of the Commons standards and privileges committee stood down pending an inquiry into his second home allowance claims. David Curry quit as chair of the watchdog, after a month in the post, after the Daily Telegraph challenged him on why he had claimed nearly £30,000 on a house he barely used in more than three...
CIPD annual conference (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Closing keynote A new leadership paradigm Vicky Wright opens the closing session An inspiring event – socialising, networking… we needed a session for the end of the is to continue this theme. What sort of leaders do we need for the sustainable futures of our orgs? An engaging and powerful introduction. The session will be presided over by John Humphries Gave a humorous intro, providing...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Queen's speech might have been just seven minutes long, but we devote a whole 21 minutes of this week's show to it. And not just what was in it but also what wasn't in it. David Cameron criticised Gordon Brown for not incorporating Christopher Kelly's reforms on MPs' expenses. Michael White thinks is was at least politically naïve of Brown. Polly Toynbee gives her reaction to the speech....
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Liberal Democrat spokesman, Norman Baker said that he thinks the government has forgotten to include expenses reform in the Queen’s speech. “I would have thought given the furore this year the government would have at least mentioned it. “You get the impression the government forgot about expenses and had be reminded in a hurry by Sir Christopher Kelly.” When asked, [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Conservative Party admitted today that a senior MP had approached Sir Christopher Kelly before he issued a damning statement last night criticising the Queen’s Speech.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Confusion over whether or not Sir Christopher Kelly's recommendations on allowances need to be enacted through new legislation David Cameron today claimed that the Queen's speech was "unravelling" after Downing Street appeared to change its stance on passing further laws to clean up MPs' expenses. The Conservative leader told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the government's position had...
Action 4 Equality Scotland (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The elephant in the room during yesterday's Queens' Speech - one of Westminster's great parliamentary occasions - was the failure of Her Majesty's government to mention the MPs' expenses scandal. To the astonishment of many observers - the biggest scandal of modern times just vanished into thin air - which speaks volumes about the government's future programme. Less than six months ago - when the expenses...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sir Christopher Kelly says he was "disappointed" the Queen's Speech excluded expenses legislation
Raedwald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Had Gordon Brown called an election after sneaking into the Labour leadership, and had his first Queen's speech been that delivered yesterday, we would now be facing a further eight years of Labour government. As it is, the British public has become so inured to Brown the coward and Brown the liar that those bold promises will bounce off the sceptical carapace of public opinion. It was all too late....
Right to Common Sense (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Yesterday during the response to the Queen's Speech I twittered how Gordon Brown was put on the spot by David Cameron challenging him over why there was nothing on expenses in it. Gordon Brown refused to stand up and looked like he was dithering again. This has now become a big headline when Sir Christopher Kelly stated later that legislation was needed. At that the government made yet another U-turn...
OberonHouston (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The combination of an unrelenting desire for power and little regard as how to keep it has found Labour constructing a Queen's Speech which most have agreed had little to do with the good of the country and a lot to do with silly tactics. Sir Christopher Kelly has said that he was 'surprised' that there were no announcements regarding the MPs expenses saga, which Brown cannot stop lurching from one...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Downing Street has denied claims it is standing in the way of expenses reform after Sir Christopher Kelly, who is heading the review into MPs' allowances, registered "disappointment" at Gordon Brown's failure to include legislation to implement his proposals in the Queen's speech. Kelly argued fresh legislation would be needed to strengthen July's Parliamentary Standards Act, which established...
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The obvious response to the Queen's speech would to be to class it as the last gasp gesture of a government on its death bed; the sole remaining embers of a cigarette burnt down to the very end, offering not even the slightest nicotine kick; the last words of the condemned before being dropped through the trapdoor. For once, the obvious response is also the right one, although not necessarily for the...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
So was David Cameron right when he taunted Gordon Brown over the missing legislation on MPs' expenses in the Queen's Speech? Very much so, on the evidence of conversations I've had with Labour and Conservative MPs on day one of the 2009-10 session of Parliament. One senior Labour MP, who regards himself as something of a shop steward on the back benches, is determined to kill the proposals put forward...
Independent Jones (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
WHILE LOCAL PARLIAMENTARY HOPEFULS tow the party line on the propsed measures to clean up parliament, I believe that the reforms do not go far enough. Following the public disclosure of all the scams MPs had been up to, Sir Christopher Kelly has brought forward new recommendations, including a ban on MPs claiming for mortgage interest payments on second homes, on flipping homes and on employing family...
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