Why do our MPs clap for each other so much?
Our MPs are constantly clapping for each other. In the Mother Parliament, they don’t accept such nonsense.
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John Bercow
Speaker Scheer scolds the House
It’s getting a bit noisy in there
Could the Speaker cut-off a response during Question Period?
An existential query for the House of Commons
The future of Parliament
How to make the House of Commons relevant?
’There may be some exceptions in those African dictatorships’
How about less party discipline and a stricter Speaker?
The parliamentary grass is not always greener
Speaker John Bercow reviews the history and present circumstance of Prime Minister’s Questions. This assessment would seem to...
How they do it in Britain
While the NDP is calling for the Speaker to be more assertive on this side of the Atlantic, there is an interesting development to...
The mother Parliament
Via the Globe’s Doug Saunders and Broken Social Scene’s Julie Penner , news that the new Speaker in the British House of Commons...