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United Kingdom Parliament - Official site offers information on the House of Commons, the House of Lords and national parliamentary services. Includes Hansard transcripts and texts of bills and acts.
Oultwood Members of Parliament Index - Links to homepages and email addresses of British MPs.
UK Members of Parliament - Directory of MP web sites, presented by name, party or constituency.
Explore Parliament - The United Kingdom Houses of Parliament educational website. Aimed at, and especially suitable for, children.
Parlianet - Subscription service providing bibliographic indexing of all UK parliamentary information, including links to full text documents.
United Kingdom Legislation (HMSO) - UK legislation, including Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments and Measures of the General Synod of the Church of England. From Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Parliamentary Monitoring and Intelligence Service - PAMIS. The Local Government Association's specialist coverage of the activities of parliament.
House of Commons Debates - Hansard - View the five most recently published debates from the floor of the Commons.
House of Lords Debates - Hansard - Site contains the transcripts of the UK House of Lords debates. Full text from June 1996 to present available. The site is updated with the previous day's edition by 08:00.
House of Commons - Select Committees - An alphabetical index to the Home Pages of individual Select Committees of the House of Commons.
BBC News Online - A-Z of Parliament - Alphabetical guide to explain the workings of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
House of Lords Debates - Hansard (uncorrected) - View uncorrected transcripts of debates from the floor of the Lords.
Parliamentlive.tv: Live Webcasting of Parliament - Live webcasts of proceedings from the UK Parliament comprising video feeds from The House of Commons, The House of Lords, Westminster Hall and an audio feed of Select Committee hearings.
BBC News - House of Lords - Online project of Open University and BBC Online explores various aspects of the House of Lords, its function, history, conflicts with the Commons and plans for reform.
Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle: MPs - Presents individual profiles for members of Parliament with biographies, jobs and committees, voting records and contact information.
UK Parliament: Bills before Parliament - Official directory of Bills from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, with links to full text, explanatory notes and amendments for each.
House of Lords Government Whips Office - Provides information on the business of the House and a facility for Peers to sign up to speak in debates.
BBC News: MPs Database - Guide to every MP offers search by surname, region or cabinet job.
The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Parliament Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Parliament There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Parliament My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Parliament "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Parliament "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Parliament The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara Parliament There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Parliament Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Parliament This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Parliament Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Parliament "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Parliament I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Parliament "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Parliament I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Parliament Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Parliament "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Parliament "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time Parliament The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Parliament In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Parliament Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Parliament You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Parliament
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