I have been puzzling over this one. The Tory Chief Whip eventually resigned over the issue of using (although he denies it) the word “plebs” in relation to the police. He admitted swearing at them, but swearing, whatever the words, was not deemed to be as great a sin as the use of the word…
On her 60th birthday, 16 October, Baroness Brinton asked the Minister, Lord Freud, what steps the government were taking to address unemployment amongst older women. The Baroness suggested that unemployment amongst older women was rocketing. The statistics given by the Minister, however, were encouraging. He said that the unemployment rate amongst women aged 5-64 was…
What do Nick Clegg, Ed Milliband, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, President Obama, Mitt Romney and Jimmy Savile have in common? They were made or broken by their television appearances; and their visual impact was more significant with the public than the words they spoke and the actions they took or promised to take. It was…
It is time for party games as the party conference season is in full swing. The House of Lords is not yet due to resume, ostensibly in order to allow space to attend the party conferences in September, but I would be surprised if attendance from peers is that high. Certainly we crossbenchers have no…
The Director of the Office for Fair Access is Prof. “Les” Ebdon, grammar school boy and, until very recently, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire (ranked 102/117 by the Guardian University Guide, and 88/116 by the Times Good University Guide, fees £9K, drop out rate 11%, compared with national rate of 7.2%). He is reported as…
