#Parliament

Elspeth Nicholson

EJWNicholson

In my first @instituteforgov explainer, we outline the ways @ScotParl, @SeneddWales and @niassembly are working throughout lockdown:https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/devolved-legislatures-coronavirus-lockdown Interesting

Michelle Barnette

Mich_Barnette

THEATRE TWITTER - it's not enough to be loud on social media about arts support. Here's what I'm doing and I hope you'll join me in doing it: (thread) 1)

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Leaving all the corruption questions to the side, why was Biden — elected to serve the Americans as Vice President — so active in trying to dictate the internal affairs

James B

piercepenniless

It might well be that a new national lockdown is needed: given the abject failure of government to coordinate and communicate its response & its myopic policy instinct that's not

Tom Hickman

TomRHickman

A long thread on the making of today’s face covering regulations and some reflections on coronavirus law-making in general. Consider this timeline: 13 July: Gov announces face masks are to

Extinction Rebellion London 🌍

XRLondon

Tens of thousands of rebels gathering from around the county with a simple message:#WeWantToLiveJoin the rebellion, unfuck the system.#ExtinctionRebellion - This *government* must declare a climate emergency,- This *government* must

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has been appointed as #Iran’s new parliament speaker. He is known for publicly boasting about personally beating protesters during the 1999 student uprising.https://youtu.be/UwmciFgQksk 2)In his own

David Toube

ToubeDavid

To take a break from Wiley for a moment, this is hugely disturbing. An executive that regards judicial scrutiny of the lawfulness of its actions as an inconvenience that needs

WE COMING RIGHT BACK!

SpicyIcyy

UK BLM petitions on the parliament website thread: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301079 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/3001

Dr Charlie Gardner

CharlieJGardner

A huge honour to have (slightly) helped craft the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill @CEEbill_NOW This is ground-breaking legislation, and clearly sets out what the UK government must do. There

Andy Frain

AndyAlexFrain

You might have read this morning about the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill. See below for a quick explainer, and why some are concerned that this Bill will

Connor MacDonald

canadianincam

This is a really good thread, and @PhilippeLagasse is right all the way through. The only caveat I have is that many have wished throughout the years that QP be

Maj Gen Satbir Singh SM

satbirsm

(1/5) #DefenceVeterans and their Dependents. Update on OROP before final hearing on 28th Oct 2020.1.OROP was announced on 17 Feb 2014 during Budget Speech.2. Mod letter dated 26 Feb 2014

Tom Scott

Tom___Scott

Reminder: Dominic Cummings used a sister company of Cambridge Analytica (AIQ) to target millions of UK voters in 2016, illegally overspending to do this.We know a lot of the material

William James

WJames_Reuters

THREAD/ Today parliament holds its first 'hybrid' session, with MPs asking questions by video link.https://reut.rs/2VoXIOJ In 1943, Churchill made a speech arguing that the Commons chamber, destroyed by WW2 bombs, must

MurrayBlackburnMackenzie

mbmpolicy

An excellent article in today's @spectator by @ProfAliceS about the importance of sex-disaggregated data and concern that more and more organisations are failing to collect data on sex or conflating