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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 just a bit of fun, okay? Nevertheless, it seems to me that there are a lot of people out there who [...]

Sovereignty is not the same as power. Sovereignty means the right to make your own decisions without a higher authority telling you what to do. It does not mean you can do whatever you like. Any sovereign individual, family, company [...]

I gave one interview only - to the Sunday Times - as a prelude to the work we will be doing starting in the Autumn on Body Confidence (see earlier posts). In that interview - because I was asked what I thought of Christina Hendricks (the MadMen star) and said I thought [...]

According to Israel's President, Shimon Peres "In England there has always been something .... anti-Israeli, in the establishment." Not the view "among all Englishmen" - as Peres acknowledges - it is, alas, a pretty good description of the British Foreign Office and the BBC.    [...]

The Guardian  has a comically daft piece by an anonymous civil servant suggesting that it is undemocratic to scrap quangos. [...]

It was nearly ten years ago that Channel Four broadcast a brilliant denunciation of drug policy by Nick Davies. The theme was almost identical to a new series starting tomorrow night at eight on Four - The Drugs laws are more deadly than the drugs. I was involved in the first [...]

There are UKIP supporters and other strong Eurosceptics who still do not seem to grasp the voting arithmetic and the reality of the modern House of Commons. It is no good writing to me to say you want out of the EU or want major [...]

No matter which political party holds office in Whitehall, being part of the EU makes Britain uncompetitive.  Latest evidence shows that the cost of complying with new EU regulations alone is £10 billion this year.  Shockingly, this comes a decade after [...]

JC:   Mr Grayling is this a priority, are we talking about a lot of jobs being advertised in Job Centres for this kind of thing? CG: There has been a steady stream over the years, when I first spotted this problem a couple of years ago and looked through Job Centre [...]

CARDIFF West MP, Kevin Brennan, has praised Llandaff's Open Doors Weekend calling it a fantastic opportunity for people to take in one of the country's finest and historic villages.This year's event takes place between September 17-19 and it is set to be bigger than ever before with even more places [...]

Andrew Lansley, according to this morning's Guardian, is removing the cap on NHS hospitals making money from private health provision. Concerns have been raised as to whether this will create a two-tier system of health provision and reversion to longer waiting times for NHS patients with private patients jumping the queue. If [...]

I SAW this moving appeal recently and I urge you to watch it too. Please give generously.

I SAW this moving appeal recently and I urge you to watch it too. Please give generously. [...]

“There is also an additional security risk in the form of a Denial of Service attack.” Classic. A good result though.

“There is also an additional security risk in the form of a Denial of Service attack.” Classic. A good result though. [...]

So many of you do not grasp the reality of the situation, and then lash out against people most likely to sympathise with your views. I voted No in the referendum of 1975, and have ever since tried to get the political classes to [...]

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 by IRA terrorists, detonated. He died within minutes. It is hard to believe that there was a time when individuals [...]

Total of British soldiers killd in Afghanistan = 327The fog of carefully contrived bluster and confusion on Swine Flu is disappearing. I have been putting in parliamentary queries. They designed to get answers to the questions that Government inquiry did not ask. One answer has been taken up by a perceptive [...]

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 flesh out my views, which are just a tad more sophisticated (“tad”, in this contest, meaning “infinitesimal” or “an amount that is negligible”) than might have been [...]

After the Coaliton government formed and made clear its intention to cut the deficit further and faster, the pound has risen. This will start to cut the high inflation rate the old policy of devalue, print and borrow was bringing about. The main [...]

Virgin Media wants to “shut down” something called Project Canvas , a BBC-backed video-on-demand venture.  Virgin Media aim to do this by complaining to Ofcom, the industry regulator.   Thus does the fate of [...]

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 that my preferred candidate, David Miliband, is in danger of coming third in the first or subsequent ballots, which is the only circumstance in which David’s second [...]