1. Dizzy reckons Labour MP Clive Efford has told a porkie.2. The Daily Beast on Sarah Palin at the Republican Governors Association.
3. Paul Waugh on yet another triumph for Andrew Mackinlay.
4. Jon Craig rightly praises LibDem MP Lynne Featherstone.
5. Mike Smithson on PoliticalBetting reckons he predicted yesterday's PMQs.
6. Cranmer on multi faith prayers in Parliament.
7. Danny Finkelstein on Gordon Brown's lack of fleet-footedness.
8. Alix Mortimer wants to know how Gordon Brown gets away with it.
9. John Redwood on the consequences of Sterling's collapse.
10. The New Statesman has a full transcript of its interview with David Davis.
11. Paul Linford laments the death of a journalistic colleague.
12. Sunder Katwala on the Speaker's Conference on diversity in Parliament.
2 comments:
On the question of diversity in politics we have to hope that the Speaker's Conference sends out a strong, clear message to those still needing to hear it.
Warm public words are not enough.
We shouldn't have a culture in which it is acceptable for a party political marketing man (with a slim personal majority to defend in elections for his own council seat) and with no legal training (or even administrative backup) to look into complaints about his own local party, then unilaterally declaring that the matter is closed and that further correspondence will henceforth be ignored.
I wouldn't blame the individual in this case so much as the party structure which permits and condones this, at very high levels, as a valid template for dispute resolution.
Hopefully, these clear and unambiguous signals from Westminster will be part of the solution.
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