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Is Big Brother watching you? 26 Aug 2013 | 01:53 pm
I saw this interesting question a day or so ago: Are we drifting blindly towards 1984-style surveillance? If we take CCTV, for example, I don’t think anyone is proposing or trying to put CCTV camera...
Meet Nick Clegg’s friend, who will feature heavily in the leader’s conference speech 25 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
A handsome fellow, isn’t he? He’s a very good friend of Nick Clegg. Our leader brings him out at every conference speech of his. He’s called Mister Strawman. Take the 2011 Brighton conference. Nick C...
Party responses to events 25 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
Over on Liberal Democrat Voice, Caron Lindsay writes a very timely article entitled “The lessons we must learn from for Nick Clegg’s next holiday”. This refers mainly to the David Miranda and Guardian...
Idyllic little ferry rides across the world 25 Aug 2013 | 05:03 pm
We went across the Hamble on this yesterday. It really is the most “cute, ickle” ferry across such a beautiful estuary! It reminded us of another idyllic ferry ride we were fortunate enough to take l...
The impeach Obama movement proves that Jeremy Clarkson was right 25 Aug 2013 | 03:35 am
The New York Times reports that there is a growing movement amongst Republicans to impeach President Obama. – Just for the hell of it, by the look of it. It proves finally that Jeremy Clarkson was rig...
The first Reading Festival in 1971 24 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
We never tire of relating the story in our family. My darling wife attended the first Reading Festival in 1971. She went with some Christians from Twyford and Woodley, which made the spectacle of Arth...
The real lesson from the David Miranda episode 23 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
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The tensest moment for any father? 22 Aug 2013 | 10:16 pm
They say the tensest moment for any father is driving mum and babe home from the hospital – recently experienced by the Duke of Cambridge. From first-hand experience, I’d say that witnessing events r...
Royal William has fathered ten illegitimate children by an Irish actress 22 Aug 2013 | 10:56 am
You know how it is. You’re staying in someone’s house. With half an hour to kill before bedtime, you pick up one of the books arranged around the spare room and idly leaf through it. This happened to ...
About this Manchester Guardian nonsense…. 22 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
When a 91 year-old relative, known for his views marginally to the right of Ghengis Khan, started a conversation about the Miranda affair with the words: About this Manchester Guardian nonsense…. …I...