Selective family memories I suppose we all do it. That is, choose which members of our family to highlight and which to ignore if we have a chance to talk about our backgrounds. But I was sad to see that in Lisa Nandy’s profile in the House Magazine recently, she omitted to say who her…
In an earlier post, Lord Tyler referred to the Deputy PM indicating his sympathy for the proposal for reducing the number of ministers in the event of the reduction in the number of MPs. This sympathy did not translate into Government action. On Monday, Charles Walker, the Conservative MP for Broxbourne, moved a new clause…
Protecting individual privacy is, to my mind, fundamental to a free society. Without privacy and the opportunity to have personal possessions, the state is all powerful. Too often, we allow the public sphere to expand, eroding personal privacy and hence freedom. There is a balance to be drawn between the public and private, between the…
Son of a President, grandson of a Senator My quiz question on the US Presidency attracted attention not only from readers in this country but also in the USA. One US blog raised the question of whether the dominance of the names of Nixon and Bush on presidential tickets meant that the US was acquiring…
Iain Dale has drawn attention to the Plain English Campaign which, as it says on its website, has invited “all MPs and their staff to send us their nominations for the best (clearest) and worst (most ridden with gobbledygook) documents that they have seen this year in Parliament.” Why, one wonders, have they not written to…
