The new ePolitix.com
1st July 2010I am delighted to welcome you to the new-look ePolitix.com, which was officially launched last night at our reception for new MPs.
I'd like to thank Gisela Stuart MP, the editor of The House Magazine and John Bercow MP, The Speaker of the House of Commons for their kind words of recognition.
As well as the visual redesign, we have made some major improvements to the way in which you can keep on top of the events and business in Parliament and find the information that you need.
Central to this is the introduction of ten key policy pages, each with a daily email bulletin which brings together unique articles from our contributing MPs and peers, all the House Magazine content, insights from our parliamentary team and the essential expert opinion from our members. Please do sign up for these on the relevant policy pages at epolitix.com/policy.
Our new blog – The 1832 blog - will give you an entertaining and informative insight into the procedures, events and oddities from inside the Palace of Westminster. The blog is at epolitix.com/1832-blog. Named in tribute to the year that Dods first published the definitive guide to MPs. This blog is written by the parliamentary team as we follow the daily business of Parliament from our vantage point in the press gallery of the House of Commons.
We want to keep enhancing ePolitix.com to suit the way our readers work, and these latest changes have been delivered in consultation with many regular users of the site. Please do keep the comments and suggestions coming - email them to me at bradley.rogers@epolitix.com - your opinion and feedback is essential!
Bradley Rogers
Head of Online Services, ePolitix & Dods Monitoring
On the agenda: Thursday
The morning session in the Commons starts with questions to energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne and his ministerial team.
Topics will include building energy-from-waste incinerators, nuclear power in the UK and increasing the number of green jobs in the economy.
Leader of the Commons Sir George Young will set out the forthcoming parliamentary business and take topical questions from MPs.
Expect MPs ongoing problems filing their expenses claims to feature heavily following fiery exchanges at the Speaker's committee on the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) yesterday.
MPs will then hold a general debate on poverty.
Labour MP Chris Bryant will hold an adjournment debate on the Act of Succession and constitutional reform.
Peers continue to be introduced to the House of Lords, new additions today include former Labour MPs John Hutton and Paul Boateng and former chair of the Conciliation and Arbitration Service Rita Donaghy.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg invites the public to nominate laws to be scrapped via the Coalition's new 'Your Freedom'website today.
While foreign secretary William Hague will set out the new government's approach to foreign policy including a pledge to increase Britain's influence in the European Union.
Article Comments
Hi,
Our stakeholders are all still there and you can find them through our 'Member Directory'. Their comments and content are now integrated into the content on the site and you can find their contribution under the relavant policy sections.
Editor
1st Jul 2010 at 10:05 am
I like your new look - very clean and well presented. But what has happened to the Stakeholders? I used to find it very useful to see comments from organisations that I wouldnt normally come across.
But otherwise, nice job!
Paul Clarke
1st Jul 2010 at 9:03 am
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