Cosmopolitan magazine caught up with Nick Clegg at the Girl Summit the other day. They have launched their own campaign to remember the victims of “honour killings”, surely the most inappropriate way to describe cold blooded murder. The images they’ve had designed to illustrate their campaign are extremely hard hitting.
He was asked what he thought Cosmo’s young women readers could do to help end FGM and forced marriage:
…the most powerful change of all is girls and women speaking up. Not allowing this to lurk in
Nominally an extremely safe seat for the Democrats, the Democratic candidate Martha Coakley should be a shoe-in.
And yet Republican former centrefold star Scott Brown, once voted by Cosmo as America’s Sexiest Man (the link is fairly safe for work, but does contain a tastefully cropped naked man) has been closing the gap in the polls, and in some cases even taken a lead.
Of key importance in this battle is the senatorial supermajority, which we have covered on The Voice in the past. In the US senate, a party with 60 of the 100 senators – or the votes of 60 senators – can move a vote of cloture which can end a filibuster. This removes from the minority party a powerful tool to veto legislation by talking it out. This has become all the more fraught recently since Obamacare, the extremely controversial healthcare legislation currently under consideration. If the Republicans win the Massachusetts, the Democrats lose their right of veto and they could lose Obamacare.
Here’s a video for each candidate to give you a flavour of the battle.
First, President Obama is staking his political reputation to support Martha Coakley and underlining the future of Obamacare:
David Evans I know it is a disappointment to many to hear that idealistic liberalism is not the be all and end all of so many people’s lives (including many perfectly goo...
Tom Harney How can we believe that arguing about numbers is going to help us? Statistics are helpful to help us look at the real situations of real people. That is what we...
john oundle Jeff
'The UK was once 10th. worst for deaths per million, but is now in 26th. place. Moreover, recent analysis of excess deaths by the ONS suggests that UK d...
Simon R *sigh* What on Earth is the problem with using technology to make people's lives better? This reminds me of 15-ish years ago when the LibDems were against the n...
Lorenzo Cherin Matt thanks you my valued friend .
I know what you experience and it is reflected in how strong you articulate it.
Others here, see my link, and comments,...
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