Hansards

I'll get back to finishing off my previous post on coal and nuclear some day soon (final essays have been completed so bar Falmouth Energy Week and the dissertation, my time is a little free-er)

However for anyone bored enough to be reading this, my tip for the day is the printed transcripts for stuff that goes on in the House of Commons/Lords. I only found them recently after a New Energy Focus article linked to them and while they aren't a hugely valuable source of information, they certainly are interesting and worth reading if you have the time.

Indeed the ability and freedom to read the debates going on in parliament is a great thing that shouldn't be wasted (and usually they're free from falling into partisan contests unlike PMQs). Following that up with watching them afterwards on BBC Parliament (if it's on) is a nice way to put faces to the names as well. As I said I haven't known about them for a while so I haven't really looked in depth, but it doesn't seem you can't search by department/category, instead having to search by member (so Ed Milliband, Joan Ruddock, David Kidney/Mike O'Brien) but that's a minor hassle.

So here's the most recent one