Alastair Campbell had a general rule that if a Minister was still the centre of a media feeding frenzy for more than a week then inevitably they would go. So it has been for Liam Fox. I was not surprised. At first I thought he would get through but the constant drip feed of new angles on the…
Oh dear! What a mess we can get into when reading a bit of a story in the press and then jumping to conclusions. Apparently some wag suggested that the reason the Bolivian student couldn’t be sent back was because his cat wouldn’t know a Bolivian mouse from a llama! Home Secretary – beware simplistic press…
There is a very serious and thoughtful article here which anyone interested in womens rights and Afghanistan should read. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/04/dreams-afghan-women-taliban-rights
We are living through a time of rapid and dramatic political and economic change. The financial crisis that hit the West has done enormous damage not just to the world economy but also to the reputation of the West as economic managers. Britain suffered additional problems because of the central importance of London as an…
My frustration with the lack of any policy for avaition by the current government provoked me to come in to Lord Spicer’s question with the following supplementary: Lord Soley: Is not the answer to the Question of the noble Lord, Lord Spicer, really that, in future, South American flights will go to Madrid, Indian and…
