Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Ros in the Lords - Brexit: Environmental and Climate Change Policy

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Returning from the summer Recess, Ros was back in action pretty quickly. As the former Chair of the House of Lords EU Sub-Committee on Ener...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

A soft-spoken bureaucrat makes an unexpected departure from the schedule

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You know how it is. You're minding your own business, catching up with some old friends, when, out of the corner of your eye, you notic...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

A new Leader in the Lords... some thoughts from a close observer

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So, the count took place, with both candidates and the outgoing Leader present, under the close watch of the Deputy Chief Whip, Christine H...

Liberal Bureaucracy - ballot counter to the nobility

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So, I'm on my way to the big city, on an unseasonably warm September day (it's apparently 33 degrees Celsius in Brentwood as I pass...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Has Dermot Murnaghan forgotten what his job is?

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It's a personal rule of thumb that, if a television or radio show includes the name of the presenter, it's intended to be entertain...
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

You appointed them, Theresa, so they're your responsibility...

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When, as the newly appointed Prime Minister, Theresa May appointed Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis to lead on Brexit, there were th...
Saturday, September 03, 2016

Why journalists are not exactly the best people to report news...

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Pog the pig - was her behaviour a touch rash(er)? Here in Suffolk, we do like our pork. The pig industry is a key part of our agricul...
Friday, September 02, 2016

At last, the good people of Hadleigh will get a local County Councillor again...

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In 2013, the Liberal Democrat-held County division of Hadleigh was lost. Our long time County Councillor, David Grutchfield, had retired, a...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Brexit: why I worry about what comes next...

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I'm an optimist by nature. And whilst that tends to help if you're a Liberal Democrat, there is a risk that one is blinded to the u...
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Mid Suffolk: will I be in a different District ward for 2019?

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I have suspected for some time that, with Stowmarket growing like Topsy, the distribution of Mid Suffolk District Council's forty counc...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Nine more years of @GreaterAnglia - a reason for cautious celebration?

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I am not an uncritical user of our railway system. As someone who actually likes travelling by train - I am known to travel a long way in o...
Monday, August 29, 2016

This may be one of the things that hips were intended for...

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I mentioned Eva Ayllon yesterday morning, so here she is, singing Ritmos Negros del Peru, accompanied by Inti Illimani Historico... Pe...

Brexit: is it really worth risking the economy in order to meet a target that didn't make sense six years ago?

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The news that there is significant pressure from within the Cabinet to choose restricting migration over access to the single market is a s...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Why Labour's troubles should act as a warning to all political parties...

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If you're a political activist, as most of the people reading this probably are, and not a member of the Labour Party, there is an obvi...
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Of quail eggs and Afro-Peruviana...

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A quiet summer passes by, and with it come opportunities to broaden the mind. That has meant that it's been a bit quiet here at "L...
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Friday, August 05, 2016

The MP is coming to town. I wonder if many people will find out?

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We've had an e-mail from the office of our new MP for Bury St Edmunds, Jo Churchill. Apparently, she is touring the constituency next w...
Thursday, August 04, 2016

In which your correspondent encounters the bizarre and the fanatical...

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I'm a pretty reasonable sort of guy, I like to think. Not prone to excess of any kind, willing to consider a reasoned argument, even if...
Wednesday, August 03, 2016

So, a better walrus having been built, how am I getting on?

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Readers will recall that I had declared my battle to shed two stone (28 pounds or, for those of you of a metric bent, 12.8 kilos) in weight...

It's just one Liberal Democrat thing after another at the moment...

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I seem to be popular, and thus busy, at the moment, thanks to my beloved Party. First the by-election, which took up most of May. Then, the...