A friend has drawn my attention to a question that appeared in The Times a few days ago. I missed it but I thought I would reproduce it as it is such a good question. When was the last US presidential election which was won by the Republicans in which a Nixon or a Bush was…
On Tuesday, Americans will go to the polls. They will choose between two principal candidates. The focus on their relative merits has rather obscured discussion of the process by which they became candidates. Both have risen to the top despite not having any executive experience. The last Senator to be elected President was John Kennedy…
I can’t remember if anyone has so far described ‘long table’? If not – it is an ancient custom in the House of Lords. In three of the restaurants (the Home (pronouced Hume and dedicated to Lord Home – a Tory Prime Minister in the 1970s) Room, the Peers’ Dining Room and the Barry Room…
The Government has already signalled its intention to bring in a Communications Data Bill in the new parliamentary session. As many will remember one of the most vociferous objections to identity cards was not the cards themselves but the central register that would store huge amounts of personal data. However, the plans to introduce a massive…
