This post is about the importance of paper. I am a supporter of the campaign group Keep Me Posted, which wants to ensure that companies such as banks and utilities allow their customers to continue to receive paper statements, without paying extra for them, and that people are not forced to handle payments and keep…
The issue of press regulation came back again when on 2 April Baroness Hollins asked a question about what progress had been made in establishing a new system of regulation in the year since the Royal Charter was agreed. From the floor of the House there was almost unanimous support for what are regarded as the…
I have noticed a new, irrational, approach to burying issues that the coalition does not like, and that is to label them “trivial” or to say that “we have more urgent priorities”. It came up in Any Questions on radio 4 today in relation to prenuptial contracts, and it was used to deflect my recent attempt…
I commented in my blog of May 2012 that I thought our Olympics were profligate. They were more successful than I or anyone expected, but I remain sceptical about the legacy – what legacy? – and above all I am dismayed by the cost. The young are not playing more sport than they did before…
There has been a great deal of comment recently about freedom of expression – in the press (shortly to be under a new system of regulation); on the airwaves, where an extremist was allowed to give his views on the Today programme following the conviction of the murderers of Lee Rigby; on campus, as I described in my…
