Feel free to spread the word and sign: Petition to: Return A&E and Life Saving Treatment to Burnley General Hospital. Every little helps. Read more (cache)
In oder to achieve that, Tom Steinberg, Francis Irving and Matthew Somerville, the founders of MySociety, have developed sites like FixMyStreet.com and TheyWorkForYou.com. On FixMyStreet you can report... Read more (cache)
As Luton Town face more point deductions, Martin Samuel argues that penalties meted out in the lower leagues are increasingly draconian. It's a topic that has aroused great feeling from readers and here... Read more (cache)
TheyWorkForYou.com is a non-partisan website run by a charity which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their elected and unelected representatives in Parliament and other assemblies. Website... Read more (cache)
The following email was forwarded to me today: The next UK Census (in 2011), in which participation is compulsory, might be run by an arms company with close links to the United States government, and ... Read more (cache)
As you may have heard, the British government is trying to pass a bill allowing the extension of pre-charge detention time from 28 days to 42. The idea is that since terrorist plots are getting more and... Read more (cache)
As a photographer and someone who recently ran a video editing / filming business, I am becoming increasingly concerned with the amount of coverage in the media, about people with cameras being on the ... Read more (cache)
Not A Day Longer - MCB Joins Coalition to Oppose Extension of Pre-Charge Detention Tuesday 10 June 2008. The Muslim Council of Britain joins human rights groups, a growing body of thinkers and policymakers... Read more (cache)
As you may have heard, the British government is trying to pass a bill allowing the extension of pre-charge detention time from 28 days to 42. The idea is that since terrorist plots are getting more and... Read more (cache)
Whether we are part of an emerging church or a Sunday morning congregation, most of us rely upon church buildings for a lot of wht we do. It would appear that the government is proposing to change the ... Read more (cache)
My petition ends on Friday the 13th June. (Will this be unlucky for Ombudsmen?) If you haven't already signed it please consider doing so before the deadline. Thanks to everyone who has already signed. ... Read more (cache)
It has been very interesting to track how society has reacted to Iris Robinson MP, MLA’s comments on gay people. Whilst there is a small but well organised lesbian and gay lobby in the North of Ireland... Read more (cache)
Save Bletchley Park. No site was more important in the defeat of Nazism. Read more (cache)
Wow! The video timestamping site on TheyWorkForYou has been live for just under ten days, but you’ve already managed to timestamp almost 14000 clips - that’s almost 40% of our entire video archive! ... Read more (cache)
Chairs: Marc López 11h00 - 12h30 : Carol Darr 12h30 - 14h00 : Tom Steinberg 14h00 - 16h00 : Lunch. Organizations in the Network Society Chairs: Genís Roca 16h00 - 17h30 : Miguel Cereceda 17h30 - 19h00... Read more (cache)
If you’re based in the UK and you haven’t yet done so, please take action to support the fabulous OBJECT and the Fawcett Society in their campaigns to reform the lapdance club licensing regime so that... Read more (cache)
Thousands of UK residents have signed a petition against a law preventing photography and filming in certain public places. Yet this all turned out to be a misunderstanding, and no such law was proposed... Read more (cache)
Hello all, I don't know if this is a global website or just US, but I'll have a go anyway. I've created an E-Petition Petition to: Provide safe parking areas by motorway and A road junctions, to encourage... Read more (cache)
The letter I just send to my MP via WriteToThem.com is quoted after the break. Feel free to use it as food-for-thought if you want to write a letter yourself, but bear in mind that boilerplate letters ... Read more (cache)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/...&s=astor#g29.4 To summarise, as I see it and in terms of priority, these are the issues; A) Good education for military orphans to rebalance their loss. B) Studies... Read more (cache)
The photo-story of our day in Crewe, on the goatchurch website. www.publicwhip.org.uk/election_crewe_and_nantwich_2008.php, the actual website with the action; draft version of the colour leaflet; black... Read more (cache)
I'm pretty sure I've written about this subject before, but as the bill is being debated tonight, then I feel that it is imperative that as many people as possible are made aware and do what little they... Read more (cache)
Do you remember that total Jerk Dennis Byron? The chap who thought that Digistan was some sort of terrorist organisation? Well here’sa rather nicely ironic way to shove his ignorant and frankly stupid... Read more (cache)
... en la que serà una de les primeres intervencions públiques de Imaz després de la seva sortida de la direcció del PNB); Tom Steinberg (impulsor de MySociety) i Gumersindo Lafuente (pare de Soitu... Read more (cache)
Theyworkforyou.com keep me updated on my MP (Geraldine Smith). Every time she speaks in parliament I get notified. Now I’ll grant you, most of it is not that interesting but she did have quite a bit ... Read more (cache)