Articles by Lynne Featherstone MP
Lynne Featherstone MP
Body Confidence – Girl Guides
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 [...]
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Private money for public health?
Andrew Lansley, according to this morning's Guardian, is removing the cap on NHS hospitals making money from private health provision.
Concerns have been raised as to whether this will create a two-tier system of health provision and reversion to longer waiting times for NHS patients with private patients jumping the queue.
If [...]
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Susie Orbach on Body Confidence
I gave one interview only - to the Sunday Times - as a prelude to the work we will be doing starting in the Autumn on Body Confidence (see earlier posts).
In that interview - because I was asked what I thought of Christina Hendricks (the MadMen star) and said I thought [...]
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Passmore Edwards – 20 years celebration
Visited Passmore Edwards Sheltered Housing in Bounds Green yesterday to celebrate their 20 years of being. What was a lovely surprise was that prior to my cutting the cake - there were three singers with guitars and violin - singing with the residents. Their voices were stunning and it was [...]
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Made in Dagenham
Went to a screening last night of a new film to be released in the autumn - Made in Dagenham. Invited - because it is the story of equal pay - how the women machinists at Ford Dagenham car plant went on strike for equal pay over forty years ago. [...]
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Rugby Football Union Women
Talking of extending the range of sport on offer to young people - which is part of the Body Confidence project - last night I attended the launch dinner of the Women's World Rugby Cup. This worldwide tournament is taking place from mid-August to mid September in Surrey - and [...]
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Body Confidence 2
Oh for goodness' sake! Christina Hendricks is a fine looking woman and it is great to see a curvy woman rather than a stick insect. But that was hardly the point of the article in the Sunday Times! However the follow-on newspaper articles in other publications seem to focus only [...]
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Body Confidence
The Sunday Times carried an article today by Marie Woolf on how the Liberal Democrat Body Confidence campaign which was founded by myself and Jo Swinson will be carried forward in government. In the coalition agreement - there is a reference to 'responsible advertising and the commercialisation and sexualisation of children'. [...]
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Equitable Life – movement at last
Before the end of the last parliament - I handed in a petition from local people who had been caught up in the Equitable Life mess. Instead of putting the petition in the sack that hangs on the back of the Speaker's Chair - the petitioners had asked specifically that [...]
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Oral Questions
Today at the Dispatch Box - myself, Theresa May, Maria Miller and Andrew Stunell were all on the front bench together - in a change to how things have been done in the past. Instead of Questions to the Minister for Equalities being only for myself and Theresa - as [...]
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Liberal Democrats in coalition – 10 weeks today
One of the questions I get asked and a frequent refrain in comments to the blog is why I support coalition with the Conservatives. Today it is 10 weeks exactly since the coalition was born. So here are some of the reasons that explain why I believe in coalition government.
In [...]
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Should Haringey have a blanekt 20mph speed limit on residential roads?
Here is my latest column for the Highgate Handbook and the Muswell Hill Flyer:
Last year there were six deaths in Haringey - as well as injuries. One little girl, for example, had both legs broken and will never be able to do sport or such like again – in her [...]
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The Big Society
The way we have been living, spending and behaving - combined with an overweening state - has led to a diminution of human potential and to operating in ever decreasing circles. We seem to value ourselves by what we do and what we buy (or cannot buy) - rather than whether [...]
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Muswell Hill Children’s Library – scrubbed up well
Delightful visit to Muswell Hill children's library to open it now it has been restored to its former glory. You really have to go there to see how fantastic it now is. The roof has huge, ornate sky-light type windows in - glorious - but in all the years I [...]
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Trans identity
During the committee stage of the 'getting rid of ID cards' Bill - the issue was raised as to how this would impact on those living in an acquired gender. It is currently the case that a passport will be issued in the acquired gender on production of a medical [...]
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Haringey’s finest
I went to two events yesterday that epitomise Haringey's finest: the Haringey Dance Showcase at the Asian Centre and then Young Haringey Heroes awards at the Bernie Grant Centre.
The Dance Showcase was a delight. It was a collaboration across three of our community centres - the Asian Centre (which hosted), [...]
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Blame Labour
The former Labour government withdrew its offer of nearly £9million it had promised Haringey for new primary school buildings. Yes - it was Labour who renegged on the money - not the coalition. I am putting this out there - because locally Labour are trying to say this is down [...]
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Section 44
Yesterday was a good day for civil liberties.
Theresa May came to the Commons to make a statement in response to a decision by the European Court of Human rights that judged that the use of stop and search powers under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 amounted to a [...]
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Total Politics: vote for your top 10 blogs
It's that time again - when Iain Dale at Total Politics wants to hear from the e-community their verdict on this year's blogs. You can see details here.It's that time again - when Iain Dale at Total Politics wants to hear from the e-community their verdict on this year's blogs. You can see details here. [...]
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Fair Funding for Haringey Schools
I went with a Haringey deputation to meet with Lord Hill - the Schools Minister last week. In the deputation were: Cllr Lorna Reith (Haringey Executive Member for Children's Services), David Lammy, Tottenham MP, Peter Lewis, Director of Children's Services at Haringey and Tony Brockman from Haringey NUT.
This was a [...]
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