The Parliamentary recess at Westminster is from 21 July until 5 September – that’s a long time and was partly, a long time ago, so that MPs and peers could rush off to their grouse moors for some ‘sport’. This period, no doubt, won’t be one long holiday for MPs, just as it isn’t…
Category: THE POLITICS: Ministers, MPs, government policy
Time for a reshuffle then…
Who would you like as the next Secretary of State for Defra? Who would you hate getting as Secretary of State for Defra? Who do you expect to get as Secretary of State for Defra? I really find it very difficult to answer any of those questions. That’s why I thought I’d ask for…
Nature Club update by E Truss (Senior Prefect) as imagined by Jonathan Wallace
St Margaret’s School (school motto Fides in mercato) Nature Club By E Truss (Senior Prefect) Gosh! Hello everyone! What an exciting week or so it has been! We are all feeling a little bit dazed after everything that has happened since the decision was taken to take the school out of…
Biofuels – let’s dump them
The idea that up to 7% of the fuel you put in your vehicle could come from food crops – not waste but actual food crops – is obscene in a world where people are starving. It’s even more obscene where the calculations show that (for various reasons which I won’t go into now) this…
#Brexit people include…
Here is a list of #Brexit supporters colour-coded by whether I normally feel warm or feel cool to their views (and, fair enough, sometimes I had to flip a coin to decide): Ian Botham Sol Campbell Keith Chegwin Iain Duncan Smith Bernie Ecclestone Nigel Farage Julian Fellowes Liam Fox Zac Goldsmith Michael Gove Kate…
#Remain people include…
Here is a list of #Remain supporters colour-coded by whether I normally feel warm or feel cool to their views (and, fair enough, sometimes I had to flip a coin to decide)(#Brexit list this evening): David Beckham Hilary Benn Natalie Bennett Tony Blair Helena Bonham Carter Billy Bragg Gordon Brown Andy Burnham David Cameron…
Gordon’s IN
Yesterday I went to hear Gordon Brown talk in Leicester as a part of the Labour In campaign. I’m glad I did. You might think that Gordon Brown is a bit of a miserable guy, grumpy and lacking in humour – well, I’m sure he can be, but yesterday he sparkled. Maybe it’s the freedom…
A bit scary
It’s been a bit odd over the last few months – being on the same side of an argument as David Cameron and George Osborne. My instincts are always to take what they say with a pinch of salt (as pictured right) but the size of the pinch just keeps growing as the Brexit/BRemain debate…
The environmental case for Brexit?
I asked my MP, a leading member of the Vote Leave group, to point me in the direction of a well-argued environmental case for voting for exit from the EU. Mr Pursglove was kind enough to point me in the direction of the Briefing Room on the Vote Leave website. Is that it? Really? In…
Labour voters and Jeremy Corbyn – this is about fairness
Our e-petition calling for an end to driven grouse shooting is whizzing along – but it is gaining least support in urban Labour constituencies (which is ironic since we used to be told that these are the only people who would support it!). If you live in Birmingham, Coventry, Oldham, Manchester, Bradford, Leeds or Leicester,…