Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Creeting St Peter: a 20 mph speed limit?

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I returned home on my community bus this evening, only to notice that a Speed Indication Device, or SID for short, was placed by the roadsi...
Friday, April 18, 2014

A century reached. Not an unbeaten century, as such, but a century nonetheless.

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Catching up with events, I was reading Liberal Democrat Voice's latest 'Golden Dozen' and was most gratified to find that my pi...

A nation enters the European Union, walks up to the Commission, and asks for... what, exactly?

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The relationship between the British public and the European Union has seldom been a strong one. Decisions by politicians past and present ...

Adrift beside an azure sea...

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I am, once again, somewhere else, something that will not entirely surprise my regular readers. So, this week, I thought that I would take a...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Just a busy Thursday night in Brussels

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I obviously forgot to publish this, so do bear with me... One of the funny things about Parliaments is that, in my experience, the "let...

Nigel Evans: there always has to be someone at fault?

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The verdict is in, and Nigel Evans, the MP for Ribble Valley, has been found not guilty of various charges of sexual misconduct. Presuming ...
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My first speech as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport...

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I know that the vacancy has already been filled, but what the hell... Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joini...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Food waste: when you think about it...

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I have, as you may have noticed, been thinking about food waste quite a lot lately. And one of the side effects of Ros's inquiry into t...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Food waste - another victim of misreporting

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It is intriguing sometimes to see how the reporting of a story relates to the facts. Unfortunately, unless you are the subject of the story...
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@BaronessRos in the Lords: the scandal of food waste

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Yesterday saw the publication of a House of Lords report on food waste, an event which might not usually be the cause of great excitement. ...

The exquisite torture of exams is at an end...

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I have, for more than a year now, been in training for my new role, the one I can't talk about here. It has been surprisingly stressful...
Saturday, April 05, 2014

Needham Market 1, Ware 0 - my day as a sponsor

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Nowadays, modern sport is much more financially complex than ever before. Professional athletes are better paid, and gate receipts alone se...
Friday, April 04, 2014

Vaguely annoyed by another pointless generalisation

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Unlock Democracy! Yes, you! Over here! And now that I have your attention, might I be so bold as to ask that, in return for my annual s...

Ros and the value of outreach

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Two weeks ago, Ros and I spent the day visiting two Norfolk schools, a state school in Dereham (Neatherd High), and a private school (Norwi...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Ros in the Lords: Bird Trapping in the Sovereign Bases

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In her capacity as Chair of EU Sub-Committee D, Ros takes an interest in matters European and environmental. This recent Written Question i...

A technology upgrade for the view from Creeting St Peter

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I have been increasingly frustrated with my mobile technology of late. The BlackBerry which had already failed me twice in eighteen months ...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Good news from Network Rail for Suffolk rail passengers

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Regular readers will be aware that I am seldom deliriously happy about our train service. Apart from the fact that Creeting St Peter doesn...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Ros in the Lords: City to City diplomacy

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Sometimes, good fortune allows you to raise a matter just when it might be most effective, and the decision of the Earl of Dundee to ask fo...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Wonderful, wonderful... Copenhagen?

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Where was I? Ah yes... So, after my mini-epic journey across Northern Europe, I had safely reached Copenhagen and, despite a few difficu...

Reflections on Europe - can we be VHS to UKIP's Betamax?

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The first debate is done, the dust begins to settle, and something that resembles a debate on Europe, our place in it and what we want from...
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