Archive for Lynne Featherstone
Snow White Dry Cleaners, Stroud Green Road: they’re fab
Living right near the border between Islington and Haringey, many of the local businesses I frequent are in Haringey. Many are great. Many offer fabulous service. Many do a really good job. But only one has the amazing charm and kindness that is Snow White Dry Cleaners on Stroud Green Road. So no competition really [...]
Lynne Featherstone launches petition against loss of services at Whittington Hospital
A news release brings the news: Haringey Liberal Democrats and Lynne Featherstone MP have launched a petition calling on Whittington chiefs to ensure that no hospital services are lost – and no land sold off – without equal or better local replacement services being put in place. The plans to sell off land and relocate [...]
The Blogfather: The best of Iain Dale’s Diary
A selection of Iain Dale’s blog posts from 2004-2012, The Blogfather is a potted history of one of the pioneering political blogs in the UK which helped take blogging from idiosyncratic niche into a mainstream format for covering politics. To his credit, Iain Dale has included several posts where subsequent events showed up his political judgement and he [...]
Equal marriage: it’s a matter of religious freedom
There’s been a lot in the media today from opponents of equal marriage about how the state mustn’t go about redefining marriage. What they keep on skating over is that equal marriage isn’t something cooked up by atheists and agnostics. It’s also - as Lynne Featherstone has pointed out – supported officially by Quakers, Liberal [...]
Government putting finishing touches to removing sexism in Royal succession
Back in 2008 when Lynne Featherstone and other Liberal Democrats first started making a serious push to get the rules of royal succession changed by abolishing the ‘boy succeeds to the throne even if they are younger than their sister’ rule (aka royal primogeniture), there were plenty outside the party – and even a few inside [...]
“I have seen many mediocre men on the boards of directors” – Featherstone in the Telegraph
Yesterday the Daily Telegraph ran a long piece on Lynne Featherstone, looking mostly at her previous job on equalities rather than her current International Development brief: “I think that it [having a baby] is a bit of a setback to women because it gives an opportunity – whether it’s in commerce, politics or wherever you [...]
A longer watch for the weekend: Mothers of Liberty
I blogged last month about the new pamphlet from the Liberal Democrat History Group, Mothers of Liberty: Women who built British Liberalism, a series of biographies of famous women liberals, which details the contribution of women to Liberal politics from the eighteenth century to the present day. That was launched at a conference fringe meeting, [...]
Mothers of Liberty: Women who built British Liberalism
For an organisation that looks to the past and to party politics, it is almost inevitable that the Liberal Democrat History Group’s publications are rather dominated with accounts of men. Even now, well into the 21st century, we only just have the first female Liberal Democrat ministers, whilst female Liberal Democrat Cabinet members or party [...]
Sometimes it is good not to be trusted
Having political opponents think you are honest, decent or hard-working are all accolades to be welcomed. But trusted to do the right thing? As one party’s right thing is another party’s wrong thing, hearing that the MPs of another party doubt you’ll do the right thing is rather an accolade in itself. Which is why [...]
What a very, very wise and always accurate newspaper The Guardian is
You ever heard me criticise the paper? You must be mistaken. It’s an unimpeachable source of political wisdom. PS This from Michael White in The Guardian yesterday: Lib Dem MP in Haringey, Lynne Featherstone, is popular.
