We know where you live

Excellent post by Tom Harris on whether MPs should have the right to keep their home addresses secret - and some intelligent, supportive comments too. (As well as some that are considerably less intelligent, but that's OH for you). Star comment must go to his wife Carolyn, who has very bravely raised her head above the parapet.

Not going to accept comments on this post. I'm sure there's a word for someone who poaches a subject from someone else, stealing the attention without doing any of the work, but whatever it is, I don't want to be one. So if you have views, off you go to his blog. (Sorry, Tom!)

Born to run

I've got Tom Harris worried... I've never seen him move so fast.

Open letter to Tom Harris

Dear Tom,

It's World Vegan Day on 1st November. And we know where you live.*

Kerry.

*Actually, I don't.

Knowing me, knowing you

On Hopi Sen's blog - and yes, he confirmed to me at the weekend that his middle name really is Newmoon, because his parents were hippies, but his sister is, strangely enough, called Edith - he says he's at the NPF and expresses pleasure that some MPs have agreed to be interviewed on video for his site. I have a horrible feeling one of them might be me.

I (sort of) agreed to do so on the basis that he would edit my footage of Andrew Gwynne MP and Sarah Teather MP "cross-country ski-ing" in the Arctic. By which I mean cautiously edging one foot forward, helplessly sliding three feet back, and falling over in a heap on top of each other. Repeatedly. I have been threatening to put it on YouTube to the soundtrack of the Benny Hill Show theme. Or possibly the Banana Splits. The time may have come. I have told Andrew he has absolutely no grounds to sue.

On Tom Harris' site he lists his Top 10 blogs, and yours truly comes in at no. 7 - knocked down a few spots because I'm a 'vegetarian' supposedly... better not tell him I'm actually a vegan or I might fall out of the Top 10 altogether. Although I can't see that being a vegan is anywhere near as bad as being a Genesis fan. At no. 4 is Sadie's Tavern, which is new to me, but I like this posting. And this one. Very true and I've been tempted to say something along similar lines myself, but just can't be bothered with the comments I'd get back. Although I would just say that the piece in today's Observer was absolute.... No, I'm not going there. Not now. You can all comment on Sadie's site instead.

A near miss

I liked this anecdote from Tom Harris' blog:

'Yesterday, while waiting for my ministerial driver, Bob, to pick me up at Members’ Entrance, I spied DD and a journalist chatting in the middle of New Palace Yard. Bob had to swerve to avoid hitting him. “Watch out, David,” I called. “We don’t want any pointless by-elections, do we?”'