For the first time, I took advantage of being at home in the middle of the day and went to the cinema on Wednesday. The film that inspired me to do so was one about possibly the most controversial British politician of my lifetime. Venerated, in quite a scary way, actually, by the right, loathed with a passion by the left.
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Today’s Guardian carries a report that more than 50 Liberal Democrat candidates at the last election have written to Nick Clegg to ask for a rethink on welfare reform.
This shows that many within the Party are unhappy with measures like the withdrawal of contributory Employment and Support Allowance after one year, something I’ve written about many times. (more…)
In September 2009, Jo Swinson MP went to Auschwitz as part of an educational trip with Scottish secondary school pupils.
This is her moving video account of her visit. It breaks my heart to think of the brutality that took place. I really don’t understand how human beings could send other human beings to their deaths like that. This is a harrowing film that should remind us of where such detachment and cruelty can lead. Watch and work out what you are going to do to fight for human rights across our planet. (more…)
The February issue of Total Politics carries, for the first ever time, a letter from yours truly.
It’s all about Scotland and independence and that sort of stuff and was literally put together in five random moments. (more…)
David Cameron is one of those people who never fail to take the biscuit, and his attack on Angela Merkel in Davos yesterday was a massive one covered with lashings of chocolate.
Cameron had the temerity at the World Economic Forum to tell Eurozone leaders how to run their affairs, affairs Cameron has made sure he has had nothing whatsoever to do with. (more…)
12th September 1995.
I woke on what was already going to be an ordeal of a day, headed for the bathroom and as I passed the mirror realised that I spots were appearing all over me, almost multiplying before my eyes.
That’s what happens when you let the only member of the family who hasn’t had Chicken Pox look after the child who’s just come down with it. Around 3 weeks before, we’d been up for the weekend when my beautiful niece Laura, then just two, came out in spots. My sister was starting a college course the next day and nobody else but I could stay home with her. (more…)
Over the past few weeks, it’s been great to see the Council, the Argus, local MPs, business leaders and academics all come out in support of my campaign to get ultra fast broadband for Brighton and Hove as part of a new Government scheme.
This week, I met with Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and was really encouraged by his positive response to the idea of helping the city become ’super-connected’.
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