Via France election: Germany rules out reworking EU’s ‘fiskalpakt’ – Telegraph. Mr Hollande has called for a shift in...
Read this entry » The Government has recently launched Big Society Capital to help finance social action in the UK. It will start with a fund of up to £600m that...
Read this entry » Today, The Made in Wycombe Exhibition opened to the public at the Arts 4 Every 1 Centre on Desborough Road. This is a new venture to promote...
Read this entry » After the riots last year, I wrote to the Home Secretary asking what would be a reasonable use of force by a property owner in defence of their...
Read this entry » I’m grateful to StopHS2 for drawing my attention to this video of the Public Accounts Committee hearing at which it was revealed HS2 has...
Read this entry » Via Rail fares and ticketing review – Consultations – Department for Transport: The Government’s goal for rail fares and ticketing...
Read this entry » I had a series of exchanges recently at the Transport Committee on the subject of rail regulation which illustrated how far economic regulation...
Read this entry »County Councillors approved an important Health motion, after a strong and at times heated debate, at their full County Council yesterday (Thursday 26 April). The...
Read this entry »Made in Wycombe is a new venture to promote the brands, products and services produced in Wycombe District. Wycombe hosts furniture, food and drink, software, engineering,...
Read this entry »P B Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was suggested to me as an inspiration. The play ends: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker...
Read this entry »The latest strategy note from Tullet Prebon asks, “What’s the big idea?” with the subtitle “the imperative need for a new ideology”,...
Read this entry »On Friday March 16 2012, a Question Time panel was hosted by Steven Sackur at the John Hampden Grammar School with the Bishop of Buckingham, Nigel Farage, Lord Alf...
Read this entry »Via Is there no escape from the euro? Intellectual honesty requires us to admit that there are important costs to exiting the euro, such as legal problems or the...
Read this entry »After Easter, I spent a week in Pakistan and Kashmir, visiting Islamabad, Thara, Sava, Dadyal, Mirpur and Skardu, which is in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan province....
Read this entry »Today’s front page of The Times asks, “Does May know what day it is?” I should think so but perhaps the Department needs to learn something from...
Read this entry »
