They Work For You is a great site – a much quicker search facility of the Parliament site, all the info from the latter is there at the former, available as RSS with email alerts when particular subjects are raised, or when individuals speak.
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What if she dies before polling day? Would a Thatcher factor benefit the Tories?
In 2001, I worked in a constituency where the Tories were strongly tipped. People reported that the visit of Thatcher was pivotal. Unmotivated activists were reminded t[…]

And I quote:
“Emo Boy, an outsider who is constantly physically and mentally bulllied, uses his super-human sensitivity to sabotage his own happiness and his unpredictable emo powers to confound his enemies. But they should be warned: There lie[…]

It took half an hour of drinking before we were rudely interrupted by the sound of helicopters overhead. As loathe as I am to admit it, it appears that Crispian was right. There seemed to be some sort of massive inter-agency conspiracy to take us int[…]

I like the sound of pan pipes. They have a delicate, burnished tone that I find very attractive. On a recent visit to Finland my wife had to take a Pan Pipes Play The Beatles compilation away from me and return it to the one euro bin. Incantation&#82[…]

Quatermass and the Noughties
It was a very strange thing, the BBC4 live remake of Quatermass. The script was barely updated, and yet it was not a period piece otherwise. Instead it lived in a low budget parallel universe where the Tate Modern was a s[…]

DOUBLE DECKER PIE: The increased popularity of dim sum over the years is nothing to be sniffed at. The lovely layers of steamed dumplings delivered to your table, the confusion when your “four delicacies” turns out to mean “four cus[…]

Asda to launch party political ales. Labour Landslide Bitter – “once deep red, but now with a blue tinge, watch carefully your glass may turn Brown”. Lib Dem Lift-Off Bitter – “the alternative pint”, and then of co[…]

MORE PIE ACTION
And more gravy queries too. Monday night, site of my Pillars Of Hercules all nighter, was also the site of pie action. In particular, blackboarded up, were a selection of ten different pies for ‘4.95, all coming with chips and v[…]

Worst diet ever
I can only blame this on hormones or something. I’ve been eating reasonably healthily (more healthily than YOU i bet), but last night, something in my brain chemistry flipped and i had the following to eat:
Bobby’s Salt&#0[…]