The Alternative Vote – a good electoral system
THAT got your attention, didn’t it? But despite my commitment to keeping First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) for elections to the House of Commons, I should perhaps...
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Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible
MANY of you will have noticed by now that things haven’t been operating at all smoothly here at Harris Towers recently. Many readers are...
Read this entry » To ballot, or not to ballot?
INTERESTING that supporters of the Alternative Vote (AV) among Tory members are outnumbered nine-to-one by those opposed. And that raises the...
Read this entry » Get your frock on
REVEALED: the original edit of Nick Robinson’s Five Days That Changed Britain. ...
Read this entry » A home for life – but only if you can afford it
WHEN I was growing up, the home we lived in was not ours. It was rented from the then Scottish Special Housing Association. I lived there from...
Read this entry » ‘E equals MC… er, Hammer?’
A LIBDEM MP has called for less brainy colleagues to go on a course so that we can be less stupid. I know! Who would have expected a LibDem to...
Read this entry » Happy birthday, Ipsa!
IPSA have embarked on a charm offensive to mark its three-month anniversary. Now, you should know that both Ian Kennedy, Ipsa’s chair,...
Read this entry » Not expressing a preference
I CAUSED a bit of a twitter on… er, Twitter last night with this Tweet: My reasoning is simple and logical: no-one seriously predicts...
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Ian Gow MP, 1937-1990
ALMOST exactly 20 years ago, Conservative MP Ian Gow left his home in East Sussex and was reversing his car down the driveway when a Semtex bomb, placed in the vehicle...
Read this entry »A heart-warming appeal
I SAW this moving appeal recently and I urge you to watch it too. Please give generously. ...
Read this entry »When love breaks down
NOW, before you choke and spit coffee all over your nice new purple tie, please bear in mind that this effort is not intended as a serious effort – it’s...
Read this entry »Green fingers
NOT that I’m a gardening expert of any sort – quite the opposite, in fact – but I thought I’d show off this batch of Snow-in-Summer, which...
Read this entry »What I did on my holidays, by Tom Harris, aged 46½
PARLIAMENT’S summer recess begins at about the same time as the English school holidays, so Scottish MPs with children of school age are often given time off...
Read this entry »Today’s Top Ten Tweets
@sshrpe “Oh no”, thought the potato as he felt the flames lick up around him, “foiled again!” @smithsky1979 AV: a system of voting designed...
Read this entry »(The Return of) Today’s Top Ten Tweets
1. @Charonqc: Brutus: “Not that I lov’d Clegg less, but that I lov’d Cameron more.” Julius Caesar (III, ii, 22) 2. @BickerRecord: All...
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