As one of several women elected to federal parliament in 1983 I am familiar with those entrenched attitudes and practices that have challenged women politicians and their female staff over the past four decades. In my early years at Old Parliament House, women were regarded as ...
While in almost all competitive political systems parties are omnipotent at elections, in Ireland independents (non-party MPs) remain significant players. At the Irish general election in 2016, independents won 23 of the 157 contested seats, proportionally the highest level of elected independent rep...
Someone with access to 10 Janpath should have told Sonia Gandhi in May 2004 that if she did not wish to be PM and wanted to gift the job to someone else, she should do so to someone who, like herself, had been elected to the Lok Sabha, like Pranab Mukherjee (elected for the first...
Boles, Corey
was accepted andpassedwithin 24 hours, with minimal debate, with the consent of 70 MPs. President Abdulla Yameen ratified the amendment the very next day. Public consultation was never part of the momentous decision, which has the potential to change the very identity and culture of the ...
JR, the answer to you question is that Blaire created the alleged “independent” quangos to implement EU laws, regs and directives so it could bypass parliament to act in stealth without any questions. A quiet EU takeover without fuss. Farage raised the issue in TV debate with Clegg who ...
Directly or indirectly, rich or poor, male or female, all of us are affected by corruption. But it does not have to be this way. All of us also have the power to fight corruption." Tell that to the APC Majority Leader in Parliament, one RASSin Bundu who would not want anyone to ...
What is to be ensured is that these directors think and act independently. Even though in law, the directors are to be elected by the shareholders, yet, in practice, the directors proposed for election are normally the nominees of the promoters. The selection and appointment of independent ...
Across the Yes movement, we know that Westminster cannot deliver a greener Scotland. MPs are elected with no element of fair voting, peers sit without the consent of the people and the system as a whole is focused on very different priorities. As UK politics tack ever harder to the right,...
Before Mr Umunna was elected to the Commons, he was described by the New Statesman magazine as “Barack Obama for Britain”. He has rare qualities for a British politician: charisma and star appeal. He is an engaging television performer; savvy on social media; and always armed with a perti...