#Commons

Philippe Lagassé

LagassePhilippe

The weakness of the Canadian Parliament, and the House of Commons specifically, results from the strength of the parties. Few MPs, if any, see themselves as parliamentarians first, party members

Dr Caitlin Green

caitlinrgreen

A 7th-century Anglo-Saxon glass drinking horn, from Rainham, London: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=87164&partId=1 A 6th-century glass drinking horn from Rommersheim grav

Damon Evans

damocrat

1. Cummings wants to abolish House of Lords. 2. Cummings gives peerages to people that will infuriate Remainers.3. Remainers call for House of Lords to be abolished.4. Cummings chuckles to

Employee #84

employee84

HERE WE GO! #PWEFriday -if you claim a card, post a card. Use the hashtag and don’t be that guy that claims 20 cards and posts commons. As a

Joe Oliver

joe_oliver

In July 1940 an anonymous letter appeared in The Times - the writer, an 11 year old school boy saying he didn't want to be evacuated to Canada and 'would

Lucy Fisher

LOS_Fisher

The NHS has come in for heavy criticism from military personnel over allocation of PPE to hospitals, as calls arise for armed forces specialists to take over logistics process.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/military-appalled-by-planning-fiasco-ov

Electoral Reform Society

electoralreform

Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg will publish plans for how MPs will vote in parliament ahead of the return of MPs tomorrow.The plan - being finalised this AM - is apparently

Bear Braumoeller

Prof_BearB

So here's a fun little story that I came across while prepping my models syllabus for the fall. It's a story about humility, most of all, but it's also a

☂️ Pushing The Needle ☂️

pushtheneedle

On this Earth Day let's scold the 5 biggest climate change mistakes Seattle ever made. (thread) #5 Downzoned the city in the 1930s to Single Family zoning. This left 80%

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

Why is it so important that Parliament resumes, and what should it be doing? Some thoughts, following last night's @BBCNewsnight interview. [THREAD]https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089m8mx 1. Britain is a parliamentary democracy. At UK-level,

Michael Dougan

mdouganlpool

I get the feeling some people still just don't / won't believe the adverse impact of the UK Internal Market Act 2020 upon devolution in Scotland and Wales. [Norn Iron

Apocalyptica

ApocalypticaNow

We're the poorest rich country in the world. We have lots of wealthy individuals and an impoverished commons. The latter was looted by the former.https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1247881635942539264 The United States is not

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Things are very dire. The world is aflame. Our political will is in tatters. But despite all this, there are leverage points, where a small intervention can have gigantic consequences.

Suzanne Zeedyk

suzannezeedyk

I want to know why footballers are being asked to take cuts in this crisis, but not government minister Jacob Rees-Mogg. Know what the investment firm he has a 15%

Naomi Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

pimlicat

I joined the Liberal Democrats 21 years ago under Charles Kennedy. I was proud to be a member. Proud to be against concentrations of power & wealth, against tuition fees

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Faced with remote learning, educators had to figure out what to do about high-stakes testing: a pedagogically bankrupt adversarial practice of measuring students' educational outcomes by testing their performance in