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Welcome to the Alt.Guides

Latest update: 3 September 2010

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

'Jenny's' guides
 
Murder Mystery Hangover 10 August 2010
Food glorious....how much? 27 August 2010


'Harper Pepperswitch's' guides
 
Parliamentary events: what to do and how not to do it 13 July 2010
Protesters, Pugin and Port - Harper's first day in Parliament 7 June 2010


'Dean Trench's' guides
 
Dean Trench 1979 - 2010    R.I.P.
24 March 2010
How to carry bags at Party Conference   or   How to keep the boss sweet and manage the madness 8 September 2009
You may be in a political drama if.... - Hot new guidance from our own Dean Trench 4 August 2009
What kind of MP do you work for? - A reference guide for bag-carriers 1 July 2009
Handling the Media - what you've always wanted to know about the Fourth Estate but were afraid to ask 16 June 2009
The Ten Commandments - if they were written by bag-carriers for MPs 26 May 2009
Where angels fear to tread - A guide to managing your MP’s new enthusiasm for the internet 1 April 2009
The top ten most annoying things your MP will do - A guide for March 18 March 2009
He's just not that into you - A guide to love and loss when working for an MP 26 February 2009
The Six Stages of Bag-carrying 14 November 2008
Organising a Meeting in Parliament 22 October 2008
The Conference Season Cometh 28 September 2008
Tips and Hints for Recess 30 July 2008
Dropping a Clanger: surviving the fallout 29 May 2008
Ten Phrases Every Bag-Carrier Needs to Fear 29 April 2008
Bag-carriers translated 28 February 2008
What Kind of Intern Are You? 28 January 2008
Bag-carriers on strike!  16 October 2007
MP Translator: What they say, what you are supposed to hear. Updated: 7 October 2007
Your First Ten Days: the bag-carrier's guide 3 September 2007
 


'Clare Romney's' guides
 
10 things you should NEVER let your Member of Parliament do - Part Three:
The Things that are just mad, bad and wrong!		 16 June 2008
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.		 21 January 2008
10 things you should NEVER let your Member of Parliament do - Part One:
Helping’ out with things that are clearly beyond them.		 26 November 2007


Hoby's cartoons
 
An occasional cartoon about life as a bag-carrier Latest: 6 September 2010
 
The W4MP Advent Calendar  1 to 24 December 2009


Other guides of an altguide-ish persuasion
 
12 months in a constituency office; in a cupboard with snow-shoes, street-lights & election frenzy - by PR 18 January 2010
12 months at Westminster; the obstacle course - by HU 2 January 2010
A researcher's guide to speechwriting - by 'Joe Connor' 12 January 2009

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