Saturday, March 30, 2019

Creeting St Peter - once more unto the breach, dear friends...

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It’s that time once again, when a parish councillor’s thoughts turn to the question of  re-election. Given my occasionally erratic presenc...
Sunday, February 03, 2019

What do you do when democracy fails you?

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The reports that Nissan are about to announce the cancellation of their proposed plans to build the X-Trail in Sunderland have led to a deg...
Saturday, February 02, 2019

Attempting not to yield to despair...

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There is a bargain to be had in public service. In return for my loyalty and faith that what I do has value, the Government runs things wit...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Experiments with Instagram

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Alright, so I’ve written some fine words about social media, which rather means that I ought to practice as I preach. And it dawns on me th...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

FIRC: thoughts on getting a message out there

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It’s now the third year of my three-year term as a member of Federal International Relations Committee, and regular readers will be aware t...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

If the still voice of despair can be replaced by faith...

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It’s been a trying day on Planet Bureaucrat for reasons not worth expanding upon but, at the end of the day, one must put it all into persp...

Daniel Kawczynski - a sign that our politics is in critical condition?

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There is much talk of treason in the air, most of it from people who define treason as being “a view or act which doesn’t concur with mine”...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Creeting St Peter: a little light reading matter

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One of the great worries of any Parish Council, and perhaps especially for its Chair, is the prospect of housing development. Increasingly,...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Creeting St Peter: we may be small, but we’re perfectly formed...

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It’s certainly a cold and frosty evening in the Creetings, but regardless, Parish Council got through, with me in the role of compère and c...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

The Battle of Wounded Elbow

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One of the more unpleasant aspects of this “growing old” malarkey is that bits of me start to fail or, at least, work less effectively than...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Life as an ambulatory traffic calmer

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Winter. Dark, cold, but mostly dark. And that means that, in order to get my ten thousand steps in each day, I spend some time each evening...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Making sense of a new home gadget

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We’ve bought a Google Home Hub for the house. Now I ought to admit that it hadn’t been something that had insinuated itself into my thought...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Margaret Thatcher might not recognise this set of Tories...

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Brexit is difficult - as a bureaucrat, I get that. There are a whole series of competing demands, made yet more challenging by the existenc...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Taking a step back from the front line of Liberal Democracy

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I am not a fanatical anything, not even a fanatical Liberal Democrat. That is, in some quarters, an admission of a lack of commitment, but ...
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Thursday, January 10, 2019

A chance to find out how diplomacy works...

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Just after Christmas, Ros forwarded something on to me, an invitation to take up an short course of study, “Diplomacy in the 21st Century”,...
Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Some music to soothe the troubled breast

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I’ve found a new album to enjoy, and so I feel that I ought to share this. So, here is Misia, a Portuguese fado singer, accompanied by ...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

The utter confidence of “Everybody knows that...”

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I’ve been arguing on Twitter today. Yes, I know, a complete waste of time for the most part, but it keeps my mental agility intact, and giv...
Monday, January 07, 2019

Day 1055 - the trek continues...

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Yes, I’m still walking 10,000 steps each day, and haven’t missed a day for nearly three years now. That is, I guess, an awful lot of steps,...
Sunday, January 06, 2019

A reflection on the prospects of Parliament giving us a second referendum

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I’m a democrat, which means that the public should get what it votes for. And whilst that also means that it gets to change its collective ...
Saturday, January 05, 2019

For what we are about to give up, may we be truly nervous...

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Malta is the smallest Member State of the European Union, just 122 square miles in area, with a population of about 400,000, on the frontie...
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