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Making Workfare Fair 27 Feb 2012 | 10:58 am
I’m fed up with the barrage of abuse from middle-class Labour supporters about the Coalition’s plans to provide work experience for the young and long term unemployed. I’m equally fed up with some of...
Housing: no longer a Cinderella issue 9 Oct 2011 | 12:01 am
As a housing professional I receive a daily e-digest from the Chartered Institute of Housing. Over the past few weeks these have been dominated by stories from the party conferences; and I find myself...
Remembering my grandparents 12 Sep 2011 | 12:01 pm
I watched a ceremony of commemoration for the 67 Britons who were killed in 9/11 in London’s Grosvenor Square today. Dame Judi Dench read a poem, Remember, by Christina Rossetti. Besides being moved b...
Gang Culture 14 Aug 2011 | 12:23 am
Some of Britain’s finest cities have been wrecked by looters and violent disorder this week. Much is being said by social commentators, politicians and angry citizens about the causes, effects and wha...
Time to fix Britain 17 Jul 2011 | 10:05 pm
Many years ago I sat in a classroom and learned The Order of Things. That Parliament made laws, the judiciary applied laws and the police enforced laws. And that somehow the media was the fourth pilla...
Giving Prisoners the Vote 13 Feb 2011 | 04:28 am
I’m getting political today. On Thursday, Parliament debated whether the United Kingdom should obey the European Court of Human Rights and lift a blanket ban that removes the right to vote from all p...
The King’s Speech 5 Feb 2011 | 03:43 am
My first trip to the cinema this year was to see The King’s Speech. Already the recipient of several awards, the film is nominated for twelve Oscars later this month. And a lot of friends had raved ab...
My Holiday Viewing (2): The Prisoner 10 Jan 2011 | 01:18 am
One evening my mother and I sat down together and watched The Prisoner – no, not the series starring Patrick McGoohan, but a film from 1955 starring Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins. Set in a post-War c...
My Holiday Viewing (1): the comedies 10 Jan 2011 | 01:17 am
I’m just back from a fortnight in Lanzarote with the family. They don’t get British TV there as they refuse to pay for satellite: I can’t say I blame them since we didn’t exactly spend a lot of time i...
Title: I’m Posting every week in 2011! 3 Jan 2011 | 10:50 pm
I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog at least once a week for all of 2011. Or at least that’s the plan. I...
