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Tag Archives: Nick Clegg
Our Presidential Debate is missing
One of the blogs I read regularly is written by a Cambridge resident who has a friend called Puffles, Puffles is a dragon and so the blog is called “A Dragons Best Friend”. It is a blog well worth reading, … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy
Tagged BBC, Conservative Party, Herman Van Rompuy, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Puffles
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Do your homework DfE
Infant Schools are currently under intense pressure to deliver hot meals from September despite the lack of appropriate kitchens in many places, and many of their teachers are now also to be used as a source of expertise for the private and voluntary … Continue reading
Can we make trade work?
In just over 6 weeks all of us who are entitled to do so will have voted in the European Elections or chosen to abstain. There is a great deal at stake and one of the issues that I wrote … Continue reading
Transparency in the European Union
One of the challenges of the debate around the European Commission and Union is that most of us hear and read so little about the work of these institutions that we are left to the soundbites that emerge from people such … Continue reading
Bags and Fags
This morning two stories have reappeared, both are based on decisions taken personally by David Cameron and both relate to attempts to impact our behaviour. They show an incoherence at the heart of our Government. This morning it appears that David Cameron is reconsidering his earlier decision to abort the … Continue reading
Lets change what we can
This morning as we reflect on the end of the War to end all Wars where Millions of men lost their lives irrespective of their class 99 years ago, one of the key discussions on the Radio was social mobility. This was provoked … Continue reading
Do we get the Ministers WE deserve?
This weeks Cabinet reshuffle took place just over a year since David Cameron’s first reshuffle and according to various reports, a year before his final reshuffle which will be the one when he delivers on his 2010 election promise on gender balance … Continue reading
Nick, did you remember to kick the wheels?
“If it looks too good to be true, then it probably is!” A week ago it appeared that the big idea for this weeks Lib Dem conference was to be charging for plastic bags. Then on Tuesday Nick Clegg visited … Continue reading
Carrier bags and Student Rags
Since I began blogging, there have inevitably been a number of topics that have occurred more than once, however usually these are topics with a degree of significance. Todays topic, although a matter I have written about in the last week … Continue reading
I feel so impotent but …….
Last nights vote in Parliament was momentous on a number of levels. It has damaged the Government, as much because they failed to understand the mood in their own parties as because they failed to understand the strength of feeling … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy, Syria
Tagged David Cameron, Domestic violence, Hugh Orde, Nick Clegg, Philip Hammond, Sarah Wollaston, Syria, Theresa May
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