Author Archive for Lord Soley

Jon Venables

Lord Soley

This very powerful and emotional case is bound to lead to intense  speculation. We do not know for sure what is alleged  and we do not want to prejudice any court proceedings – or I hope we don’t! There was a question in both Houses yesterday and in the Lords the judges and lawyers were…

Vancouver Olympics

Lord Soley

So we won gold at Vancouver – great! We do seem to do very much better at sport these days. I remember when we were constantly lagging – nice to be in front now. Congratulations to Amy Williams

Economics and Statistics

Lord Soley

I notice that one group of economists has come out in favour of the Labour Government’s approach to the international recession and another group has come out in favour of the Tory alternative. This also happened when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister and a statistician came out with the following: He said (with a very…

Home education and Iran

Lord Soley

I have spent some time reading the comments on the post concerning home education. I still have some more background reading to do but it has been useful. I think that some of the comments are unnecessarily aggressive and do not add to the argument. Hotly disputed issues like this need cool heads. I will…

Home Education – Round Two!

Lord Soley

An interesting aspect of my post below and the one by Baroness Deech is that they attracted few responses from many of our non committed bloggers. I would like to hear their views. There is nothing wrong with a lobbying group of strongly committed people – they are essential to the democratic process but I…