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Welcome to the Alt.Guides
Parliament is a serious place, and the Palace of Westminster and constituency offices are filled with hard-working, dedicated professionals engaged in the important business of running the country. Yet even the most committed need time for rest and recuperation, space to kick back and unwind, and opportunities to take a sideways look at their workplace, employers and even their political masters.
This is the place for staff who are looking for something less serious and rather more entertaining than the average guide to best practice.
We hope you enjoy these guides as much as we do.
The Guides
| Ten Phrases Every Bag-Carrier Needs to Fear | Dean Trench | 29 April 2008 |
| Bag-carriers translated | Dean Trench | 28 February 2008 |
| What Kind of Intern Are You? | Dean Trench | 28 January 2008 |
| Bag-carriers on strike! | Dean Trench | 16 October
2007 |
| MP Translator: What they say, what you are supposed to hear. | Dean Trench | 1 September 2007. (Updated: 7 October 2007) |
| Your First Ten Days: the bag-carrier's guide | Dean Trench | 3 September 2007 |
| 10 things you should NEVER let your Member of Parliament do - Part One: Helping’ out with things that are clearly beyond them. | Clare Romney | 26 November 2007 |
| 10 things you should NEVER let your Member of Parliament do - Part Two: Your MP’s brilliant ideas to raise their profile – what every bag-carrier needs to fear. | Clare Romney | 21 January 2008 |
| Cartoons: an occasional cartoon about life as a bag-carrier | Hoby | Latest: 5 May 2008 |
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