Dear Mr Cameron,
You have come out and stated that you would like to see the UK return to traditional Christian values. At the same time you have said that you are a mostly non-practicing Christian.
My questions to you then are:
1) In what way are you practicing and non-practicing?
2) What kind of Christian are you? CoE? [...]
This may only be of interest to those in the UK but this has been bothering me for weeks, since the story broke.
Kenneth Clarke MP was accused by the press of making a delineation between types of rape. They claim he described some rapes as more serious than others. They ‘raped’ him in the press [...]
I am incredibly fed up of hearing meaningless dialogues and monologues from the press and politicians lately. Whether it’s about student funding, student protests, the budget, the economy or any other topic gracing the headlines of late there seems to be a complete lack of balance and an utter absence of any rational voices.
Then I [...]
The BBC has published a page on the electoral reforms that I was discussing yesterday. They explain the systems quite well but please please don’t take any notice of the figures they give for the number of seats in the election under the different systems. This is only guesswork as I tried to explain because [...]
To follow on from my last post. I am left wondering…
In the AV+ system, why does the proportional part of the system only have one fifth of the weight of the AV part which for the most part is just first-past-the-post?
What if instead the House was made up from 50% AV and 50% proportional voting? [...]
In the near future the British electoral system may be overhauled. The Liberal Democrats want it as part of the price of their forming a coalition government as I have mentioned before. But what system will be adopted? There seems to be three possibilities.
Single Transferable Vote
- Liberal Democrat preferred system
Alternative Vote
- This was previously mentioned [...]
Today the LibDems revealed they are talking to Labour about a coalition. Between them they do not have enough seats to form a majority but they would have more than the Conservatives and would have every right to form a minority government. They could pretty much count on getting enough more votes from the minority [...]
Well I am very disappointed at the lack of people voting for the Liberal Democrats this morning. Initially I wanted to say that people bottled it and decided to vote Conservative but if we look at the shift in votes for each party as a percentage of the total that doesn’t appear to be the [...]
I’m a bit late to the party on this but I thought the vitriol and fury being vented about the new scanners at UK airports was a bit on an over-reaction – or at least the reaction was for all the wrong reasons.
The first story I read that made me think to write about them [...]