Labour has spent the last few months on a relentless crusade to position Ed Miliband as the man on the side of ordinary working people, launching a moral crusade against the big energy companies, corrupt media empires and big businesses. Opinion polls indicate that until the recent revelations that about the Co-operative bank scandal, this strategy was beginning to work. […]
Tuesday 19th November 2013 Thefts of iPads and tablets on public transport rise By Camilla Turner Thefts of iPads, tablets and Kindles on Britain’s railways have risen this year. while thefts of laptops and computers have gone down. There was a 10 percent increase in the number of iPad, tablet and Kindle thefts reported across the UK’s rail network, figures […]
Parliament Street research into rising crime figures on Britain’s rail network was front page news in The Metro newspaper. The story was also covered by the Daily Mail, The Mirror and The Evening Standard.
Originally published in The Scotsman on Tuesday 19th November 2013 (online on the Monday): Thefts of iPads, tablets and Kindles on Britain’s railways have soared this year, while thefts of laptops and computers have gone down. This year there was a 10% increase in the number of iPad, tablet and Kindle thefts reported across the UK’s rail network, figures obtained […]
By Henry Hill A narrative seems to have settled around the government’s decision to consolidate UK defence shipbuilding on the Clyde, at the cost of closing Portsmouth yard. According to some, including the Telegraph’s Con Coughlin, a proud English city has been shafted by a government hell-bent on lavishing gifts on the Scots. A shipbuilding tradition, centuries in the making, […]
Chris Christie, Bill de Blasio and Terry McAuliffe By Maxwell Woodger Last Tuesday, Americans went to the polls in three states, which are key to US presidential elections: New York, New Jersey and Virginia. For a UK comparison, this would be equivalent to a major regional election such as the 2012 London Mayor election, or a significant number of Council […]
Every year as we edge ever closer to 11th November, without fail, that debate rears its head. That debate of course being: what does wearing a poppy actually mean? Quite frankly, it’s a debate that makes me despair. What critical social commentators signally fail to understand is that their very right to speak out against a way of thinking, a […]
5th November 2013 Following the news that Bracknell MP Dr. Phillip Lee has seen his Twitter following grow from 787 in September in 2012 to 3,064 in the same month this year, Parliament Street’s Steven George-Hilley was quoted in Get Reading extolling the merits of Twitter in public life. Steven George-Hilley, director of technology, Parliament Street said: “Social media is […]
By Caitlin Boydon-Jones On Wednesday evening, Parliament Street was joined by Former Secretary of State for Defence, and Member of Parliament for North Somerset Liam Fox, to discuss his new book Rising Tides; facing the challenges of a new era. Fox delivered a speech covering the topic of Globalisation and the challenges it brings, to a packed out room of […]
By Shaun Dias Commonwealth Leaders are beginning to gather in Sri Lanka ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Many nations are criticising the decision to allow Sri Lanka to host CHOGM amidst the countries continued human and civil rights violations springing from the countries twenty-six year civil war. The principles of the Commonwealth, set out in the […]
