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I feel I owe a retraction from my previous piece: http://matthewhutton.com/2009/03/uk-democracy-still-functions/ The MP’s last week published their expenses in full after blacking out almost all of the detail – unfortunately they didn’t quite black out enough: Now aside from blacking out the class of travel, the number of people travelling, the ticket type and the [...]

I sent my European Parliament members an email this morning about the EU extending copyright from the current term of copyright for sound recordings from 50 years to 95 years. The vote on this issue is going to be this Thursday. Anyhow within today I got an email from both of my Liberal Democrat MEP’s [...]

I sent my MP an email on Monday over the chief medical officers plans to introduce minimum prices of £0.50 per unit of alcohol (US$0.70, €0.53) which has been rejected by Gordon Brown (UK Prime Minister) and was pleasantly surprised to receive an acknowledgement in the post this morning. I’m impressed that he’s managed to [...]