Do we need Political Parties?
All Parties very rarely give their MP's a free vote. The Cabinet makes and sets policy. Hence the need for a whips office to force through votes. Most sadly of all, 75%+ of all MP seats are that safe, always Tory or always Labour etc. Then they ask why electorate have stopped voting.
The government will soon outline its plans to give security officials the power to monitor emails and internet use.
The proposals, which are predicted to feature in the upcoming Queen's speech, have been described by supporters as a much-needed "modernisation" of current measures which allow the monitoring of telephone calls.
Critics, however, call the plans an unnecessary extension of the law, and an infringment of civil liberties.
Counter-terrorism research reveals network of pro-Islamic bloggers is smaller and less cohesive than anti-jihadist community
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The Home Office's counter-terrorism communications unit has named its top 20 most influential "pro-Islamic" political bloggers.
The list forms part of a mapping exercise carried out on behalf of the Home Office to estimate and track the scale and influence of Islamic bloggers in Britain.
The results of the exercise, which was carried out in 2008 but only published today, show that a network of Islamic bloggers who post on British politics does exist but is still relatively small and draws its information overwhelmingly from mainstream media, mainly the Guardian and the BBC.
