Monitoring MPs – making politics social

Monitoring MPs – making politics social

If you want track the livestream social media activity of  MPs, then the new website YatterBox will be perfect for you. It has just been launched by York University graduates and their unique site tracks all MPs’ social media: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,...
The Co-operative revolution – rebranded

The Co-operative revolution – rebranded

I had no idea that the Co-operative group had such a strong social conscience and forged so many varied community links until I researched this post to promote their rebranding, The co-operative good for everyone. Pitching themselves as an organisation proudly formed...
Elizabeth Taylor and adoption

Elizabeth Taylor and adoption

My elder brother has urged me to write a post about Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor who died last week as he admired her greatly. But what can be said that hasn’t already been written? I recalled that she had an adopted daughter Maria and thought this would be...

Grantchester Meadows without the crowds

Lode EveryTrail – Find trail maps for California and beyond I enjoyed a leisurely stroll along a picturesque Cambridgeshire riverbank in the vicinity of Lode and Bottisham this afternoon with a friend who has recently returned from a year or so in Australia...
The Rolling Stones gig in Wisbech

The Rolling Stones gig in Wisbech

First there was the BBC’s Evan Davis knocking Wisbech people in his programme about migrant workers, and now Keith Richards makes them out to have been straw-brained Worzel Gummidges back in the 1960s. I bought my husband a copy of Keith Richards’...
Do we need a new House of Commons Chamber?

Do we need a new House of Commons Chamber?

There are 649 MPs , yet only room for 427  MPs to sit in the House of Commons Chamber.  On television we often see them standing during popular sessions, like the Budget and PMQs.  It’s not an ideal working arrangement, and I wonder what can be done to...