Middle England – an entirely unscientific poll
Today I drove from Presteigne to Perry Barr in North West Birmingham, a drive I make at least once a week. It’s a very beautiful drive, until you reach the M5 just outside Droitwich,...
Monthly Archive: April 2010
Communitarianism
Just a few links tonight…. Things run by volunteers… http://www.talyllyn.co.uk/ http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/home By local communities… http://www.gigha.org.uk/ http://www.rutlandtelecom.co.uk/ By Trusts… http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/index.shtml By various kinds of co-operative… http://www.co-operative.coop/ http://www.johnlewis.com/
Why Holywood Matters
So, I spent last autumn living in Holywood in Northern Ireland. With a lady. Now she is living with me, here in Sunny Presteigne. This morning, we awoke to the horrifying news that the...
Kemptown Lady
A short blog this evening, as I’m nuts deep in the new book. It’s not often that I wished I still lived In Brighton… in fact, it’s only at Electiontide. Back in the eighties,...
Gordon! Gordon! Gordon! Out! Out! Out!
There was a biggish demo in London today, against public spending cuts and redundancies in the public sector. On my wall, I have an 18th Century print of Canute attempting to hold back the...
Adonis by name…
I thought it was the Real Tories who were the toffs, but actually it’s the New Party who trot out their unelected peers for the benefit of the press. We’ve already seen a lot...
Never did me any harm…
Today the Tories, aided by Michael Caine, unveiled their plans for a version of National Service, what you might call National Service Lite. It won’t be compulsory, but will combine a few weeks of...
Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism
So, today it’s all been about constitutional and electoral reform. The New Party promise to deliver the things they promised to deliver 13 years ago with a majority of 160. The flagship idea is...
Our Cause is Your Cause
So said Gordon Brown, launching the New Party’s election campaign today. Surely he meant to say, Your Cause is Our Cause; which is to say, we, as elected politicians will attempt to find out...
