In today's Sunday Telegraph...
A few things caught my attention whilst sat on the slowest bus of all time - the no.10 from Olympia (the Form design show) to the British Library (for the maps exhbition - the queue was too long so looked at the Magna Carter instead).In an article on the parliamentary procedures for Lords reform, Theresa May is quoted as saying:
"At a time when Tony Blair and his advisers are being investigated for the 'cash for peerages' scandal, the Government had a chance to clean up the membership and appointments to the Lords. The [Straw] proposals show that they continue to prefer patronage to democracy. They are yet another wasted opportunity."
Preferring democracy to patronage, however, isn't always Mrs May's postion. The Telegraph continues:
She said that, if the Government's proposal did get through the Commons on Wednesday, a coalition of Tory and Labour peers would attempt to block it in the Lords.
Anti-semitism in Israel is a new one to me, and this Telegraph article doesn't really get to grips with how prevalent it is.
Finally, whinging couple of the day goes to the two in this story, who are living this nightmare:
For Vivien and Peter Hunter, Sunday once followed a familiar pattern. The only cooked breakfast of the week, a leisurely read of the papers, a stroll through nearby Victoria Park in east London to feed the ducks with their three young sons and then, if the doting grandparents were willing to babysit, a late-afternoon pub lunch á deux. "I doubt we have managed a Sunday like that in four months now," Vivien sighs. "And unless something short of a miracle happens in the housing market, I reckon my next leisurely Sunday lunch with Peter will be, oh, sometime next century?"
Apparently they are finding it hard to buy a place for them and their three children in East London for...£700,000. In their case presumably, as one is a local govenrnment official and the other a senior fire official, to afford £700,000 they have a lot of equity in their current house due to rising house prices.
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posted by Matthew @ 3/04/2007 04:15:00 PM
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