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ITC (International Teledemocracy Centre) - Technology to enhance and support the democratic process, including an online petition system.
Soundings Debates - Online version of Soundings, a journal set up in 1995, with the aim of contributing to the process of left renewal.
British Government and Politics on the Internet - Keele University's directory of government and political resources on the internet.
Politico's Political Bookshop - Booksellers and publishers of political books, with a shop in Westminster, or you can purchase online. They also have a major stand at all the Party Conferences.
Politics at the University of York - Courses, case studies, research links and bibliography.
House of Commons - Constituency Locator - Find your constituency and your MP.
People and Politics - A comprehensive index of people in UK politics.
UK Local Government Information - With clickable maps to find every principle local authority in the UK, plus information on council composition and by-elections.
Tagish Directory of UK National and Local Government Web Sites - A comprehensive directory of UK Government information on the web.
FaxYourMP.com - Allows UK constituents to find out information about their MP, and to send them a fax.
SOSIG: Politics - The Politics section of the Social Science Information Gateway; a large directory of internet and other political resources.
BritPolitics.Com - Online guide to British politics and current issues, including encyclopedia on topics such as the constitution, government structure, the civil service, the armed forces, Europe and political history, plus mailing list and political party links.
UK Politics Directory - A directory of UK political web sites covering parties, elections, media, people, pressure groups, issues, lobbyists and political consultants.
Left Directory - Comprehensive directory of mainly UK activist and left-wing political groups and resources.
Carnegie Young People Initiative - Aiming to improve young people's involvement in local and national projects about young people's rights to participate as citizens.
The VoxPolitics blog - net campaigning and e-democracy - VoxPolitics analyses the use of the internet in UK politics and campaigns, offering manifesto, primer and blog.
The Activist - Encouraging active participation in political and economic issues: essays on globalisation, Western economic imperialism, oppression and injustice.
Polidex - An online trading game where you can buy and sell shares in UK MPs, and try and make a pretend profit depending on their popularity.
British Politics Page - Online resource centre of UKPOL Magazine, providing impartial information on all aspects of British politics, from election results since 1945 to the latest political news.
Walter Bagehot - Information about Bagehot and his theories concerning the British constitution which remain influential to this day.
The Public Whip - Analysis of MP voting records and written answers. Monthly email newsletter.
Guardian Politics: Ask Aristotle - Searchable database of MPs, ministers, election candidates, constituency map and parliamentary activity. Includes biographies, jobs and committees, voting records and contact information.
The British Isles - The political structure and brief history of the British Isles.
TheyWorkForYou.com - Allows users to add comments and links to Hansard, and provides detailed profiles of MPs.
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Politics "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde Politics "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Politics The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Politics Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Politics Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Politics I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Politics Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Politics All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Politics A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Politics The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Politics Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Politics "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Politics Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Politics He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Politics Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Politics There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Politics There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Politics Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Politics "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Politics Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Politics We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Politics
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