There was that joke by Seth Meyers about Donald Trump running for President… no wait Donald Trump was running as a joke! Perhaps right now someone else… no something else has trumped Donald as a joke – the British Government :(

The other day I caught a Today program discussion on the idea of a ‘white Christmas’. Interesting to note the notion of a white Christmas being a 19th century view – Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (& a very 20th century Bing Crosby didn’t help), that this is very much responsible for all the dreadful Christmas sentimentality. [...]

Ian Duncan-Smith recently courted controversy by saying that un-employed people should get on a bus to find work. Perhaps instead they should learn a foreign language… At a party recently I had an enjoyable chat with someone in the very top echelon of management at a higher education establishment. Their advice to me was to not bother [...]

I made such a big thing about the election this year and how Adrian Ramsay was on the brink of becoming the first Green MP or at best coming second. In the event he came 4th and the celebrated first went to Caroline Lucas. How did it go all horribly wrong! Activists seemed to be [...]

…well perhaps not… In an interview with Thomas Kielinger, UK correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt, Evan Davies on the Today program discusses the German perspective on coalition government. Thomas talks about the adversarial system of democracy, exemplified by the seating arrangement of the House of Commons, to which Evan Davies quipped about getting the interior [...]

Our eldest was away at Brownie camp on the North Norfolk coast at the weekend. It was her first time away from home by herself apart from friend sleepovers. On our way to collect her we made a family day-out with her younger sisters to Felbrigg Hall  where there’s a cool tree you can crawl into and climb [...]

I want to believe that, underneath, something different is happening here in Norwich South. Regardless of your politics the phenomenal success of the Norwich Green Party has to be admired and respected. For me if it were any other constituencey I wouldn’t neccessarily be supporting a Green Party candidate. In fact at the European elections [...]

Usually on election day voters will ignore their local voting history and vote completely differently when it comes to electing the Government – a popular incumbent re-elected regardless of local issues or a complete 180 degree change because the country wants to get rid of a tired and tainted Government. For the last 30 years it’s [...]

What more can be said about Climategate? Since it hit the headlines I’ve surfed intensely and have become so disappointed with the AGW debate & what’s happened at CRU. But then that’s just it. One side claims that there is no debate to be had, that the overwhelming consensus is for AGW and that catastrophic climate chaos [...]