Category Archives: Lord Soley

News of the World and Media Plurality

Lord Soley 08/03/2012 – 12:33 pm

This exchange following Lord Fowler's question on media plurality gave me the opportunity to point out that the News of the World did not have to be closed. Lord Fowler: To ask Her Majesty's Government what proposals they have for ensuring media plurality in the United Kingdom. Baroness Garden of Frognal: My Lords, the Government will outline high-level thinking on media ownership and plural […]

Gay marriage

Lord Soley 06/03/2012 – 11:02 am

Well - what a storm! The most senior cleric in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, launches an impassioned attack on the government's proposed gay mariage law. I have always been a relatively quiet supporter of same sax mariage if only to protect a couples right to legal protection similar to that offered to heterosexual marriage. I am also of the opinion that if two people love each other then they […]

Leveson Inquiry

Lord Soley 28/02/2012 – 11:00 pm

Well - I knew there were some pretty dodgy operations going on at News International but I didn't think the payments to the police and other organisations were as extensive as they apparently are. In the past I was hearing rumours of hacking, dodgy payments and off course, sexual harrassment  at the Sun but I was only able to prove the latter. When I look back at it now it is worrying that o […]

Greece and the Euro

Lord Soley 21/02/2012 – 11:23 pm

I am worried by the financial settlement for Greece. Although I think it is grossly unfair for Greeks to present the German Chancellor as Hitler there is an uncomfortable similarity between the position that we put Germany in after the First World War and what we are doing to the Greeks now. A nation and a people have to have hope and asking the Greeks to take this amount of pain until 2020 is […]

Technology and Xmas shopping

Lord Soley 23/12/2011 – 6:05 pm

Standing in the rain waiting for a bus to to take me to complete my Christams shopping I used the text message advertised on the bus stops which enables you to know when the bus is coming. True - I got a few odd looks from the rural bus queue in Oxfordshire as I typed in the numbers to text but I really do find it helpful and so far the bus has always arrived within 4 minutes of the stated time a […]