Tag Archives: Politics
getstats: “a society in which our lives and choices are enriched by an understanding of statistics”
The Royal Statistical Society is launching a campaign today called getstats to emphasise how important an understanding of statistics is in our society. I will be supporting this campaign. getstats has a website at http://www.getstats.org.uk/ In today’s economic climate, where … Continue reading
Brown going, going ….
Labour backbenchers are organising a petition to call on Gordon Brown to resign, see here. Also The Guardian newspaper has an online poll which says it all, from a newspaper traditionally supportive of Labour: Update 04 Jun 2009 2206: now … Continue reading
ZaNuLabour in meltdown, like ferrets fighting in a sack
After the last two days, with news of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Alistair Darling) having to apologise because of irregularities in his expenses, then the former Defence Secretary (Geoff Hoon, currently Transport Secretary, and the origin of Guido‘s phrase … Continue reading
Widow tells MPs: Here are your medals of dishonour
See this article. Quote from it: Yesterday, Mrs MacAulay, a great-grandmother whose Sutherland home is more than 600 miles from the Commons, said she would return the seven WW II medals awarded to her and husband Iain, and his military … Continue reading
No rewards for failure? Why should Speaker Martin get peerage then?
Gordon Brown claimed that there would be no more rewards for failure. That was in reference to the banking crisis, which happened on his watch, largely due to his encouragement of excessive house prices and his complacency that he had … Continue reading
MPs: time for the phrase “the Honourable” to go, and for the worst offending MPs too
In the current furore over MPs’ expenses, some in the press are tending to tar all MPs with the same brush. This is unfair, as pointed out by Andrew Rawnsley in this article. However, actuary21c thinks public anger is such … Continue reading
More own goals by our government
As the “Gordon, please go” petition continues to climb (now over 52,000 signatures), two photographs (from yesterday, it is unbelievable that these are actually genuine, no photoshopping here, see the Guido Fawkes website for more details here) add fuel to … Continue reading
Gordon, please go: the power of the internet
As yet another example of the way in which the online world is changing the physical one, this online petition (declaration of interest: I have signed it) is the most popular one on the Number 10 Downing Street website. Why? … Continue reading
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