Derek Wyatt

Welcome to my new website
Thank you for visiting my new website.

It has two elements - a Monday-Friday blog on different subjects and a News section.

Blair book first day outsold Mandy's first day 8:1; but better than both is 2nd volume of Chris Mullin's diary "Decline &Fall".

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A New Start with a New Design

Mondays: Politics

Tuesdays: Digital & New Media

Wednesdays: Sport

Thursdays: Take 5 actvities for the weekend

Fridays: Foreign Affairs

And the site itself will reflect these interests of mine in more detail as it builds. I hope you will participate and add your own comments.

Once again, Andy Hudson, the award- winning designer of my former site (three national awards), has been responsible for this one. I cannot recommend him highly enough.

My old site: www.derekwyattexmp.co.uk has been officially deposited at the British Library: www.bl.uk

Derek Wyatt

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William Hague

I'm sure it will have come as some relief that the William Hague story was absent across the red top Sunday newspapers yesterday. There will come a time soon in the UK, as has happened elsewhere, when Bloggers will be sued for defamation and ISPs may well be caught up in an individual case as the carriers of said information. It was embarrassing for the body politic and for the nation as a whole that William Hague had to divulge private information about his wife with...

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Labour Leadership Vote

It is important - if you do not want David Miliband as your choice for the Labour leadership - how you vote in the election. If you vote first for Diane Abbott, Andy Burnham or Ed Balls first please make sure you place Ed Miliband 2nd on your ballot paper.

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Labour Leadership ballot papers arrive today in London

Ballot papers are being delivered across London today.

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Assessing the Pakistani cricket row

Some critical questions which remain unanswered: Did the three named Pakistani cricketers lay bets themselves on bowling no-balls or were they promised a percentage of the illegal bets laid back in Pakistan for the act in question? Did they bowl the no balls to demonstrate to the "sting" that it was possible to do but actually this was a dry run and no bets were placed?

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Just do one thing this weekend

There's only really one thing to do this week and that is to go out and buy the book everyone is talking about. It is: Chris Mullin's second volume of his diaries entitled: Decline & Fall (of the Labour Government). His publishing house brought froward the publishing date to 31st August 2010 to pip the other book which is being trashed in almost every newspaper today but which is actually rather a good read. I finished Decline & Fall in two sittings but Blair's A Journey...

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Latest Video

The internet's role in the recession. G20 and we20

we20 have been lucky enough to speak to Derek Wyatt MP one of the pioneers of internet adoption within UK Parliament. Derek spoke to us about the internet's role in contributing to and possibly solving the recession. He also explains some background to the G20 Summit and discusses we20.