On Thursday evening I was kindly invited on a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament by my local MP, Richard Harrington. Before I write-up a post about the tour itself I thought this would give a great opportunity to write a little about Parliament itself. Though there were bodies with some parliamentary like qualities… Continue reading A Brief History of Parliament
Category: Politics
The Death of the music scene in London
I’ve written before on the various building and engineering projects that are transforming many cities in Britain and London in particularly. In the grand scheme of things, many of these obviously offer huge improvements bringing 20th and often 19th century infrastructure into the new millennia. However increasingly it is becoming obvious that all is not… Continue reading The Death of the music scene in London
Band Aid 30
There are many problems with the world at the moment and certainly with our country but one thing that we can be proud of is our record of charity and giving to countries that are poorer than our own. In fact we are the only G8 country and one of only 5 in the world… Continue reading Band Aid 30
The death of the Aral Sea
Once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world and half the size of England has over the last few decades almost totally disappeared. The Aral Sea sits in the middle of the Kyzylkum Desert fed by the two rivers, the Syr Darya and Amu Darya. It wasn’t really a sea but a… Continue reading The death of the Aral Sea
Better Together – Scottish Separatist Referendum
For everyone living in the U.K., we’ve all been aware that the big day has been approaching for years (indeed some have been waiting for it for 300 years) whilst for everyone overseas, if you didn’t know there was going to be a referendum in Scotland on thursday then you will soon. As someone born… Continue reading Better Together – Scottish Separatist Referendum
21st century genocide – The Yazidi
Few can have escaped seeing the footage in the last week of the “genocide” being inflicted on the Yazidi people in Iraq. To many they are just another bad news story but for various reasons I have always had an affinity for the Yazidi and the closely related Zoroastrians. The recent massacres of the Yazidi… Continue reading 21st century genocide – The Yazidi
The Importance of Soft Power
In my near 2 years of blogging, I haven’t seen any posts on the concept of Soft Power. This maybe because I spend too much time in other areas of WordPress but Soft Power is an important and interesting concept and one that is becoming increasingly important though at the same time remaining largely unknown.… Continue reading The Importance of Soft Power
Is Putin like Hitler?
It’s the question that everyone has been talking about recently. It’s possibly what even more people have been thinking to themselves. Is Putin acting like Hitler? Putin has on more than one occasion said the fall of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe. It’s hard to find anyone from Eastern Europe who thinks that. These… Continue reading Is Putin like Hitler?
How wrong can we be?
We are all used to thinking that things are a lot worse than they actually are. The media make their money from convincing us things are bad and going to get worst. Opposing political parties insist we are all doomed except of course for the government of the day that state things are always on… Continue reading How wrong can we be?
The 10 worst MPs of all time.
The British Parliament is composed of two Houses, the Upper House or House of Lords and the Lower House also known as the House of Commons as it houses the Members of Parliament or MPs elected by the common people. Surprisingly or maybe not as we in the U.K. don’t allow personal use of firearms,… Continue reading The 10 worst MPs of all time.
Stephen Liddell 