#Commons

Dr. Janis Geary

janisgeary

I've seen a lot of frustration over fines for families using open park space. At face value, it certainly feels like an overreach, but allow me to get a little

EveryDoctor

EveryDoctorUK

@Dr_PhilippaW's speech in the Commons just now is incredibly important - the Public Interest Disclosures (Protection) Bill has the potential to be game-changing in both the protection of whistleblowers and

Prof Susan Oosthuizen

DrSueOosthuizen

THREAD. The East Anglian #fen basin was one of the richest and most populous areas of #medieval England... this thread explores how local communities managed the #landscape that produced the

Lorelei 🌕🧙‍♀️🕸🍄

hatpinwoman

This commons library briefing paper was released today. It’s worth reading. I thought I’d pull out some of the factual errors or disputable/concerning statements I saw on the first read

David Blagden

blagden_david

A basic reality that advocates of Scottish independence should acknowledge - but won’t, for some obvious electoral reasons - is that it wouldn’t suddenly free them from the hated English

People_of_Space: Julie

People_Of_Space

I'm sure you've heard of the "space debris crisis". We knew about it in the late '70s + by the early '00s we had a robust set of laws that

Darrell Owens

IDoTheThinking

The sad truth is that the sudden prevalence of parklets shows the true capabilities of a city when the business and merchant community approves of it and that all those

Matt Chorley

MattChorley

Last week on my @TimesRadio show listeners sent in political finds in charity shops. Liam had a Commons cookbook from 1987https://twitter.com/leelum/status/1301522769868468224 It included Neil Kinnock’s Welsh cakes So I’m giving

OpenFuture

OpenFutureEU

0/After two decades from birth of the #openmovement, #Open is still a paradox: it represents a challenge to and a concentration of power. @creativecommons @Wikimedia @OKFN @mozilla @edri @internetarchive @communia_eu

Gregory Brew

gbrew24

The goal of the Carter Doctrine: maintain access to Persian Gulf oil, prevent the rise of a regional power hostile to the US. According to those criteria, the doctrine has

Grad Center TLC

GCTLC

When we teach face-to-face, silence can be a useful tool for encouraging reflection and resetting the energy in our classrooms. It’s harder to do this when teaching synchronously online. This

The Irish Nation Lives

theirishnation

#OnThisDay in 1919 Captain William Benn, MP for #Leith, asked in #Westminster "how many members of the House have been imprisoned [or arrested]...under the Defence of the Realm Act". The

David Anderson

bricksilk

Important #OOBill message: looks like celebrations of a government concession on crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court are premature. ⁦The excellent @BinghamCentre⁩ has been looking at the

Chris Reed

DisneyTory

For the upteenth time I’ve seen on social media people describing the hybrid committee meetings as House sittings. Whether you agree or not on the utility/necessity of the House sitting

jan van hee

jkvanhee

Nadenken in het beroepsonderwijsA thread http://janvanhee.net/2020/11/24/nadenken-in-het-beroepsonderwijs/ Mijn eerste opdracht in het onderwijs, begin jaren negentig, was een interim in het beroepsonderwijs. Ik mocht Nederlands en maatsch

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Reality - especially epidemiology - has a distinct leftist bias, which almost makes you feel sorry for right-wing ideologues like @mayoroflasvegas Carolyn Goodman, who says that every business in town