House Of Comments's Posts

This week Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss party funding in the light of Ed Miliband's recent announcement on union funding, the immigration backlog and Post Office privatisation.

This week Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell are joined by Liberal Conspiracy's Sunny Hundal to discuss the fallout from the Falkirk selection debacle, how Ed Miliband's proposals to respond to this might affect the future of the Labour Party and the further recent discussions about an EU referendum.

This week Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell are joined by Bright Blue's Kate Maltby to discuss the spending review and the related fortunes of the parties in its wake, the double dip that never was, royal spending, ministerial no shows and violent porn.

This week Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss "The Alternative Queen's Speech", domestic violence, the behaviour of MPs in the chamber of the House of Commons and whether benefit claimants should have their addresses published.

This week Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell are joined by Conservative activist and blogger Nick Denys to discuss Michael Gove's education reforms, The Morrissey Report into the Lib Dems in the wake of the Lord Rennard allegations and Sarah Woolaston's interview with the Guardian about how having won an open primary to become MP for Totnes, the political system has treated her.

This week Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell are joined by author Carl Packman to discuss payday lenders and what can be done to provide loans from alternative sources, the US PRISM scandal and how it relates to privacy questions in the UK and Labour's repositioning on pensions policy.

This week Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss the latest parliamentary scandal and ask whether we need a clampdown on lobbying and also the ability for MPs to be recalled as well as Labour's latest announcement on means testing pensioner benefits.

This week Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell are joined by parliamentary lobby correspondent and host of the "Hear Hear" podcast Sean Dilley to chew over the week in politics. They discuss various aspects of the aftermath of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich including the political and media responses. They also cover whether David Cameron should be able to take a holiday and touch upon the recent fortunes of the Conservative Party more widely.

Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week they are joined by Labour activist and blogger Hopi Sen to discuss Andrew Adonis' "5 Days in May" about the coalition negotiations from Labour's perspective, Loongate and the Tories incipient nervous breakdown over Europe and equal marriage.

Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week they are joined by Lib Dem activist Jennie Rigg to discuss "Post truth politics" in the wake of Iain Duncan-Smith having been caught out misusing statistics (again), Michael Gove's comments on the Lib Dem internal struggles, fish quotas and the ongoing effects of the bedroom tax.

Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week they are joined by Labour activist and local government expert Laura Wilkes to discuss the recent local election results especially with respect to the continuing UKIP surge, David Cameron's old Etonian staffing tendencies, the decision by the government not to enshrine the 0.7% GDP level of foreign aid in law and anonymity for rape suspects.

Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week they analyse Tony Blair's latest comments about the UK political scene with respect to Labour in particular, Iain Duncan-Smith's suggestion that wealthy pensioners should hand back their universal benefits and they look ahead to the upcoming local elections.

Mark Thompson discusses recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week he is joined by Labour activist and councillor Grace Fletcher-Hackwood to discuss the case of Paris Brown the 17 year old who was forced to stand down from her position as youth advisor to a PCC due to her social media activities, Labour's position on public finances and looking forward to the local elections in a couple of weeks time they consider whether there is likely to be a UKIP surge.

Mark Thompson discusses recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week he is joined by libertarian blogger Mark Wallace to discuss the impact and legacy of Margaret Thatcher in the wake of her death last week.

Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week they discuss the departure of David Miliband from UK politics and the UK altogether, the welfare changes and the controversial use by some in the media and politics of the Mick Philpott case in the debate about benefits.

Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week they are joined by former Ed Miliband adviser Sonia Sodha to discuss the budget, Leveson and blogs, Workfare and JSA targets and immigration bonds.

Emma Burnell discusses recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week she was joined by Liberal conservative blogger and contributor to Platform 10 Nick Denys. They talked all things fiscal in advance of the budget and also covered the many (many) plots swirling around the Tory party and what that all means for their electoral chances.

Emma Burnell discusses recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week she is joined by Liberal Democrat Linda Jack and former Liberal Democrat Jo Shaw who had dramatically resigned from the party on the conference stage during a debate on Secret Courts on the day of recording. They discuss Secret Courts, party leaderships being out of touch with their members, the differences between Labour and the Lib Dems and how women in politics and public life are treated.

Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week they are joined by Rafael Behr the political editor of the New Statesman to discuss the fallout from Eastleigh including the UKIP surge, John O'Farrell's comments about candidate "scrutiny" and murmurs from the Conservative Party about rowing back on human rights legislation.

Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss recent events in politics in the all new revived House of Comments podcast. This week they are joined by Isabel Hardman the editor of the Spectator Coffee house blog to discuss the AAA debacle and what it means for George Osborne and the government, the Eastleigh by-election and what Mark found out pounding the streets in South Hampshire at the weekend and finally the accusations against Lord Rennard and more generally women in public life.