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Last Thursday I headed round the corner from my Fore Street office to the beautiful Pymmes Park. I wasn't there for a stroll or to sit and enjoy the sun; I was there to help launch Enfield Council's Parks Strategy with Mayor Jayne Buckland.The new parks and open spaces strategy [...]

REVEALED: the original edit of Nick Robinson’s Five Days That Changed Britain. [...]

WHEN I was growing up, the home we lived in was not ours. It was rented from the then Scottish Special Housing Association. I lived there from the age of four until I was 20. My dad still lives there, although he now owns it. David Cameron’s annoyance at council tenants [...]

It’s like Google, innit?  Let’s crowd source, and like, you know, do a wiki.  And like mashable, too. I suspect that pretty much sums up some of the thinking in Whitehall that went into the proposal for an on-line consultation [...]

KEVIN Brennan and Rhodri Morgan, MP and AM for Cardiff West, have welcomed a Welsh Assembly grant of £62,922 to help complete the repair of the famous Animal Wall at Cardiff Castle.The funding will provide a boost to the final stages of the restoration project of Cardiff Castle which has [...]

I am not that happy about his comments about council housing. There is a complex issue about housing and how we manage a spectrum of different types of tenancies and ownerships.Housing is a very important foundation for families. People with disabilities often have their properties specifically adapted.I think [...]

Today the Girl Guides are calling for warning symbols to be stamped on airbrushed pictures of models and actresses to curb a rise in eating disorders. They are launching an online petition for compulsory labelling to inform people whether an image has been digitally altered / airbrushed. It's available on [...]

History does not repeat itself. Reading some and understanding it helps people and parties avoid making the same mistakes. Some Lib Dems are currently worried that belonging to a Coalition will lead to unpopularity. As the party which has argued long and loudly for coalitions and has told us they [...]

Chloe Smith MP today visited Shelter Norfolk to meet the charity's staff and local people they have helped. Chloe wanted to find out more about the housing problems facing people in Norfolk. She discussed with Shelter staff the issues that face the clients they help on a daily basis and then [...]

A LIBDEM MP has called for less brainy colleagues to go on a course so that we can be less stupid. I know! Who would have expected a LibDem to be condescending? With inter-personal skills like that, he’ll be leader of his party in no time. Not Julian Huppert Ignorance of science [...]

Dennis Robinson told the bishop his sermon had made him proud to be an atheist. David is the father of a Welsh soldier killed in Afghanistan. He  accused a Bishop Tom Burns of “hijacking” his son’s funeral service for political propaganda. Not for the fisrt time. The Bishop had previously preached [...]

Delyn MP, David Hanson, has visited the Discover and Do Holiday Club in Carmel, at the invitation of Clybiau Plant Cymru Holiday Clubs. Clybiau Plan Cymru Kids’ Clubs was established in 2001 to help communities in Wales by promoting, developing and supporting quality, affordable, accessible out of school childcare clubs.  They [...]

Delyn MP, David Hanson, has presented the Cottage Nursing Home, Mold, with the prestigious Investors in People Award.  The award was presented on the occasion of the Cottage Nursing Home’s annual summer barbecue, which this year had a Swiss theme to coincide with the Swiss national day.  Andreas Lanini, the [...]

IPSA have embarked on a charm offensive to mark its three-month anniversary. Now, you should know that both Ian Kennedy, Ipsa’s chair, and its chief executive, Andrew McDonald, are very touchy and a tad hysterical when it comes to criticism. Kennedy told The Telegraph just last month that… All of these are [...]

A few weekends ago I got up at the crack of dawn, literally, to go to Chase Farm Hospital for a special interview on Radio Enfield.The hospital radio station was celebrating its 40th birthday and had been granted a four-day one-off FM licence enabling them to broadcast to the whole [...]

I CAUSED a bit of a twitter on… er, Twitter last night with this Tweet: My reasoning is simple and logical: no-one seriously predicts that my preferred candidate, David Miliband, is in danger of coming third in the first or subsequent ballots, which is the only circumstance in which David’s second [...]

Virgin Media wants to “shut down” something called Project Canvas , a BBC-backed video-on-demand venture.  Virgin Media aim to do this by complaining to Ofcom, the industry regulator.   Thus does the fate of [...]

After the Coaliton government formed and made clear its intention to cut the deficit further and faster, the pound has risen. This will start to cut the high inflation rate the old policy of devalue, print and borrow was bringing about. The main [...]

THAT got your attention, didn’t it? But despite my commitment to keeping First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) for elections to the House of Commons, I should perhaps flesh out my views, which are just a tad more sophisticated (“tad”, in this contest, meaning “infinitesimal” or “an amount that is negligible”) than might have been [...]

Total of British soldiers killd in Afghanistan = 327The fog of carefully contrived bluster and confusion on Swine Flu is disappearing. I have been putting in parliamentary queries. They designed to get answers to the questions that Government inquiry did not ask. One answer has been taken up by a perceptive [...]