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KEVIN Brennan MP, is urging businessmen and women in Cardiff West to come forward and demonstrate their entrepeneurial ideas in a bid to scoop a £50,000 prize.The competition is open to existing businesses as well as those who simply have a fantastic new idea and the winner will not [...]

This video tells the story of Tanya, one of the many women we have spoken to, and Frank and I explaining the solution - how our amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill, will help to prevent the ever increasing number of heart wrenching stories l... [...]

Isn't that convenient?  Facemasks might mean arrests in future, In particular at the royal wedding - apart from bridal veils.. Any other attempt to disguises features will prove guilt and offenders will be thrown into the slammer. Soft cop on Saturday will be hard cop for the nuptials. The reactions of the [...]

KEVIN Brennan MP and Rhodri Morgan AM recently visited the Grand Avenue Times' women's group to see the work they have been doing in Ely.The group is well known in the area for the publication of their newspaper but they also provide groups and classes for women in the community [...]

As part of the programme of events marking the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Census, Dr Jill Liddington, Honorary Research Fellow at Leeds University, will be speaking today at Westminster on how women across the country responded to the suffragette invitation to boycott the census. This reminded me of the battle [...]

I'm not a woman and lots has already been written on the Internet and elsewhere today to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, but I did want to add my support for the initiative. So much has improved in terms of women's equality in the UK over the [...]

As I predicted, those who wish to mis represent my position on abortion came out yesterday in an attempt to both discredit me and therefore undermine both the issue itself and the case of vulnerable women. Having been challenged on my position rega... [...]

              The Coalition government has been hit by a blizzard of difficult court judgements from the European Court of Human Rights (Convention) and from the European Court of Justice (EU).  They have served to underline just how constrained Ministers and Parliament now are, given the UK’s acceptance of both these jurisdictions. [...]

BRITAIN'S first ever Bangladeshi MP visited Cardiff West this week to meet members of one of the city's most multicultural wards.Rushanara Ali, the Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, was invited to Riverside by local MP, Kevin Brennan, to meet residents with Kevin and Labour's candidate in the Riverside [...]

Maia Mikashavidze's tale in oner that disgraces the Government of Georgia.   For many reasons I have been a uprooter of Georgia. The country has a rough deal from the West. The Conservative MPs on the Council of Europe disgracefully back the Russians in 008 when then invaded sovereign territory of [...]

Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, is calling for coordinated action to improve post-event care for people who have heart attacks. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the UK's biggest killer - around one in five men and one in seven women die from the disease. CHD causes around 94,000 deaths in [...]

              Let me surprise my readers. I think one of the best things the left has done over the last couple of decades is persuade  more people in the UK that racism is unacceptable. The UK is a more tolerant and better place today.          If   The Prime Minister’s speech [...]

LOCAL MP Kevin Brennan and Rhodri Morgan AM have welcomed the selection of 'committed community candidate' Iona Gordon to stand for Labour in the upcoming Riverside by-election on March 3.Iona is the Chair of the Cardiff Cycling Campaign and is the person behind such fantastic local schemes such as English [...]

KEVIN Brennan, MP for Cardiff West, is urging women in his constituency to protect their heart health and support the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Angina Monologues campaign.Mr Brennan attended a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Heart Disease last week in Parliament and met with other MPs from [...]

                   As I arrived early  at work this morning the contractors were busy putting out sandbags and reorganising the crowd barriers around Parliament Square. They are expecting a fourth day of peaceful protest doubtless laced with extreme behaviour. Last week almost 3000 policemen and women had to be taken off [...]

Thanks you Alison. I don’t know who you but you were the voice of moderation, sense and decency on the BBC Wales phone-in today.  I was summoned to take part half an hour before the programme was due to start. Howard Flight’s gaffe has inevitably churned up the bigots and myth [...]

Delyn MP David Hanson has shown his support for White Ribbon Campaign’s Work to Reduce Domestic...

Delyn MP David Hanson has shown his support for White Ribbon Campaign’s Work to Reduce Domestic Violence.   David Hanson said:   “The White Ribbon Campaign is the UK branch of the global campaign to ensure men take more responsibility for reducing the level of violence against women. It is an educational [...]

What a wonderful morning! The exodus of Irish delegates from the six-monthly meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly allowed British MPs a free morning. It was a glorious morning of winter sunshine with the seagulls dancing across the waves at Douglas.   It luckily co-incided with a rare meeting of the House of [...]

What a wonderful morning! The exodus of Irish delegates from the six-monthly meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly allowed British MPs a free morning. It luckily co-incided with a rare meeting of the House of Keys. Reading the agenda, it struck me that they could have arranged it especially for me. There [...]

Thanks to Les James, Pat Drewett and many other enthusiasts, Newport has celebrated the Chartists in more interesting ways than ever before.   This afternoon there was a re-enactment of the shooting of the 22 Chartist in the place where it happened on November 4th 1839. A splendid group of Chartist [...]