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Archive for February, 2009

26 Feb

Media Watch: BBC respond to complaint about British-Irish Council

On Friday I wrote to the BBC to complain about their coverage of the British-Irish Council meeting in Wales.
I expected to be fobbed off, I didn’t expect them to dig an even deeper hole!
The reply from BBC Information Wales is as follows:
Dear Mr Parr,
Thank you for this message. This is an issue about which many [...]

26 Feb

CEP Protest outside English Parliament

The CEP’s London branch held one of their regular protests yesterday outside the English Parliament …

23 Feb

Telford leaves city region with immediate effect

Excellent news from the West Midlands NO! campaign …

I would love to have been a fly on the wall in Simon Murphy’s office today when he got the call from Telford & Wrekin Council announcing that they were leaving his city region quango with immediate effect.
A week ago to this day I wrote an email [...]

23 Feb

The state, the nation, and civil liberties

On Thursday I went to London, to the Foreign Press Association, situated in the former residence of William Gladstone, to record a video for The Convention on Modern Liberty (who were holding a press conference there).
I should have known it was going to be one of those days when I asked the ticket officer at [...]

20 Feb

Media Watch: BBC and the British-Irish Council

The British-Irish Council is meeting in Wales today, hosted by the Welsh First Minister.
The BBC lists the representatives that will attend the British-Irish Council meeting except for the British ministers that will attend in place of England which has no representation in the Council.
Others due to attend include Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, the Irish [...]

18 Feb

Discussion piece: The Convention on Modern Liberty

On February 28th individuals from across the United Kingdom will converge upon London to participate in The Convention on Modern Liberty. At stake are our freedoms, many of them long established English liberties, threatened, and encroached upon, by an authoritarian British state.
Joining organisations like Liberty, No2ID and Amnesty will be the Campaign for an [...]

10 Feb

No signs of intelligent life on Planet Cameron

David Cameron, in an interview for the Spectator on Sunday, has all but conceded having no mandate in Scotland following the next general election.
I say “all but conceded” because on Planet Cameron the Tories are expected to win 25 seats in Scotland whereas on Planet Earth, they’re expected to lose their single, remaining Westminster seat.
Under [...]

08 Feb

Shropshire Star: England is denied EU aid benefit by Labour

This excellent letter appeared in the Shropshire Star on Saturday:

England is denied EU aid benefit by Labour
The Labour Government is denying England a windfall from the European Union yet it is making sure that Wales, Scotland and Ulster benefit.
The fall in the value of the pound has increased the value of euro-denominated EU grants by [...]

08 Feb

Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish FA’s say no to Team GB

The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish FA’s have ruled out participating in a British football team and aren’t prepared to discuss the matter any further.
The Daily Telegraph reckons this will kill of Gordon Brown’s dream of a British football team for the 2012 Olympics.  Such naïvety.
The British football team will happen and it will consist [...]

04 Feb

Media Watch: ITV News at 10

The ITV News at 10 programme (produced by ITN) last night covered the story about the British government intending to put dementia doctors into every hospital in England.  But it wasn’t reported that way of course …
Hi,
I would like to complain about a report that appeared on last night’s News at 10 on ITV1.
The story [...]

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