Dee Doocey writes… Just the ticket?
The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics promised the most inclusive Games ever. We were told that the Games would be “highly affordable” and that “half the tickets would cost £20 or less”. On 15th...
View ArticleBaroness Dee Doocey’s maiden speech
In recent months, LDV has been bringing its readers copies of our new MPs’ and Peers’ first words in Parliament, so that we can read what is being said and respond. You can find all of the speeches in...
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Dee Doocey writes… Getting Olympic ticketing right
At one minute to midday on Tuesday 15 March, applications for tickets for the 2012 London Olympics will open. Over the past twenty years, ticketing arrangements for every Games have created bad...
View ArticleDee Doocey writes: Riots – a case for reason and not posturing
The TV comedy The Thick of It brilliantly satirised the tendency of New Labour to govern by ‘initiative’. Politics was reduced to public relations. Policies were created on the hoof with an eye to the...
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Dee Doocey writes… Questions now must be answered over the Met’s record of...
Last week, it was revealed that an undercover Metropolitan police officer, Jim Boyling, had been arrested and tried for a public order offence under his cover name, Jim Sutton. Yet at no time during...
View ArticleBaroness Dee Doocey writes: Legal Aid and Welfare Reform, spot the problem
As one of the Liberal Democrat peers engaged in the debate on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill as well as the recent Welfare Reform Bill debates, I am pushing today for a...
View ArticleDee Doocey writes: Vigilance over Olympic tickets
With just 100 days to go to the London Olympics, you might be interested to read this quote about the interaction of sport and commercial interests: “Of course sponsors have to receive value for money,...
View ArticleWanted: Your views on slavery
“Slavery?” I hear you cry. “In this day and age?” Sadly, slavery is still very much with us. And it’s not a problem found only in far away countries. It’s happening right here, right now, in Britain....
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Dee Doocey writes … Protecting children should be at the centre of the fight...
According to the US State Department at a global level people trafficking ranks as the third largest source of income for organised crime, coming after only drugs and the arms trade. So as someone who...
View ArticleBaroness Dee Doocey writes… Protecting tenants in estate regeneration schemes
In January, the Prime Minister announced in The Sunday Times that he wanted to see 100 of Britain’s most run-down estates transformed. His ambition is apparently ‘nothing short of social...
View Article‘Fee waiver’ system for immigrants not working
Much like schoolchildren, Peers have returned from the Easter break this week. We’re now within a month or so of the end of this parliamentary ‘session’, and so there will be lots of battles as the...
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