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:
Peter Martin There seems to me a natural inclination in this thread to dismiss the concept of GDP as some kind of right wing conspiracy against the lower orders.
I'm not...
Mary Reid David Boyle really was a modern polymath. Yes, he was a great Liberal thinker - and I was inspired by him when serving on a policy working group on localism - b...
Mike Fleming Iran didn't have ambitions for nuclear weapons whereas Israel already has them. The biggest threat to Middle East stability is Israel, and supporting the illega...
expats How can you negotiate with Trump? He can change his mind, and back again, mid-sentence..
Israel, who deliberately started this war to sideline their Gaza genoc...
Richard The United States' war against Iran neither conforms to International Law nor to just war theory and should be strongly condemned by all....
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