Eating in the Palace

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We came across this excellent review of The Terrace Cafeteria over on ‘The London Review of Breakfasts’ –

‘The Terrace is comfortingly old-fashioned with a Pugin-tiled serving area and a wood-panelled, green-carpeted dining room which overlooks the Thames. According to a friend who went to one, it’s like being in a boarding school refectory…. At 10am [it is] busy with burly builders, fat policemen and thin researchers.’

Read the rest

If you felt like submitting your own reviews of other eating (and drinking) places we’d be happy to publish them – anonymously, if needed – and pay a modest fee for your contribution.

Parliament and Delegated Legislation: Hansard Society Report Launch

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On December 10th, the Hansard Society will be launching its latest publication on the legislative process:The Devil is in the Detail: Parliament and Delegated Legislation.

This latest report opens up the delegated legislation process, exploring how decisions are made about what goes in to primary and what goes in to secondary legislation and who makes them. It looks at the evolution of delegated legislation, how the process works in both Houses of Parliament, and examines a number of legislative case studies that illustrate different aspects of the flaws and defects in the current system.

The authors will outline their findings and set out recommendations for reform of the system before a panel-audience discussion on the key issues and questions that arise in the report.

The launch event takes place at 6:00pm, Wednesday 10th December
Room E, 7 Millbank, London, SW1P 3JA

Register here.

Parliamentary Training for Teachers

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Free Parliamentary training opportunity for teachers in your constituency: 3-day Teachers’ Institute: 26th – 28th January 2015

Parliament’s Education Service will be hosting a new 3-day Teachers’ Institute residential course in Westminster, 26th – 28thJanuary 2015, and applications are now open.  The Teachers’ Institute is a unique professional development opportunity, enabling teachers to experience Parliament in action during an informative, interactive and unforgettable three days based at the Houses of Parliament.

Transport and accommodation costs are covered for all delegates, and applications are welcome from teachers and other professionals working with children aged 7-18 across Citizenship, Politics, Law, History and other related subjects. For more details and an application form, visit www.parliament.uk/teachers-institute