I was astonished to discover that correspondence from 10 Downing Street officials has been signed with fake names. David Cameron has now said the practice will stop but how extraordinary to do it in the first place. The use of false names on letters from No 10 began in 2005 in response “to a security…
The Swiss canton population of Zurich yesterday voted overwhelmingly to retain their legal framework on assisted dying. 87% of the voters wanted to retain assisted suicide (legal since 1941 without any ‘slippery slope’ having been induced) and the vast majority wanted to retain the practise of offering a service to terminally ill people from abroad…
I listened with some trepidation to the Prime Minister’s speech this morning, which you can read here at http://www.politics.co.uk/features/health/david-cameron-nhs-speech-in-full-$21388842.htm. Was he going to subtly shift from the crucial parts of the Health Bill that are likely to make the difference in the long term to the cost effectiveness, responsiveness and sustainability of the public service…
So Osama Bin Laden is dead, killed by an American military squad. What has been achieved? A demonstration of US power? Yes. Revenge for the Twin Towers? Yes, but revenge doesn’t help anyone, it leads to further counter revenge incidents. It doesn’t help the grieving relatives of atrocities; their grief can only be assuaged by…
Taking up Lord Norton’s recent blog, I have enormous sympathy with the desire to slow down or stop the appointment of new peers; there are already far too many of us and there simply isn’t enough space. But stopping appointments seems to me the wrong way to go about reducing the numbers. Far better to…
