Archive for lynne featherstone
Haringey ‘gagged’ council chief with six-figure payoff
The Evening Standard reports:
Haringey council was facing fresh criticism today over a secret six-figure payoff it made to one of its senior officials.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was allegedly given the payment to stop an embarrassing “revelation” about Labour councillor Charles Adje becoming public at an employment tribunal.
The council is facing [...]
David Lammy and Quentin Davies provoke warning from Treasury over ministerial behaviour
Rapid criticism of Public Accounts Committee reports from Quentin Davies (defence minister) and David Lammy (higher education minister) have resulted in the Treasury issuing a memo warning that such behaviour can result in ministers being censured.
As the November edition of Public Servant reports:
An attack by two ministers on parliamentary reports revealing waste and incompetence in [...]
An introduction to political blogging
Welcome to the first part of a new weekly series on political blogging which we’ll be running here on The Voice between now and Christmas. It’s designed primarily to be an introduction for anyone thinking of starting a political blog, but packed full of enough information to be useful for existing bloggers too.
If the series [...]
The weird farce of Royal Mail parcel deliveries
Now, when I say parcel deliveries, you might think that this story involves parcels or indeed deliveries. If only.
I was already familiar with the problem in many areas of people getting “Sorry you were out” cards through the letterbox, saying the Royal Mail had tried to deliver a parcel, even though they were firmly sat [...]
Real Women policy paper debate: live blog #ldconf
With my technological fingers crossed, here we go…
[Several people in the hall are also tweeting through the debate. You can keep up with their and other conference tweets through this search link. The policy paper and motion are available to read here. And yes, it is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, hence this.]
The votes:
Amendment [...]
Bugger, an MP has just given me some homework
Ah, the perils of blogging. A little while back I blogged about the Government’s failure to use its existing legal powers to clarify how imprint rules for election leaflets apply to online campaigning, such as emails or YouTube videos. Got a bit of traffic, a few comments and an MP (Lynne Featherstone) decided to put in [...]
Lynne Featherstone's new website
Lynne’s new website certainly looks different from her first, created back in 1999: Websites have come along a long way since then (though of course Lynne looks not a day older). Lynne’s own site has been through a couple of versions, including a redesign by Kingston councillor Mary Reid and getting a blog added alongside [...]
Whether you are left or right handed shapes our judgments of good and bad, smart and stupid
This from Newsweek:
Memo to restaurant owners: if there are particular dishes you want more customers to order, list them on the right side of the menu…
Simply put, we associate the side of space where we’re clumsier with bad, stupid, dishonest, unhappy and other negative qualities, finds Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics [...]
Even The Sun covers a Lib Dem press release today
I suspect it may in part have been because it gave them a chance to take a pop at Harriet Harman – but there’s big coverage in The Sun, and other media, today for figures collated by the Liberal Democrats about the gender pay gap in central government:
Official figures show female civil servants are paid [...]
