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As regular readers will know, we moved house in June.  Since then, we have entertained a succession of electricians, carpenters, plumbers and decorators.  All of them have carried their work excellently and have been a pleasure to have around us. It has, as I predicted, been a long haul.  But now [...]

Delyn MP David Hanson has backed Usdaw, in their call for respect for retail workers, after they...

Delyn MP David Hanson has backed Usdaw, in their call for respect for retail workers, after they released preliminary survey results that show over one million shopworkers were assaulted, threatened or verbally abused in the last twelve months. The survey shows that in the past 12 months, 6% of shopworkers were [...]

BP’s 234-page attempt to exculpate itself wherever possible from the Deepwater oil rig explosion in April and the colossal environmental pollution it caused, whilst transferring blame where it can to Transocean and Halliburton, unsurprisingly ignores the central issue.   Why did the health and safety regulatory regime so comprehensively fail to [...]

Chloe Smith MP today ran the third in the series of her 'Next Generation' business seminars. Begun last year in collaboration with City College and Howes Percival LLP, these meetings bring together Norwich students, entrepreneurs and established local firms to discuss the skills and business policies needed for the [...]

This is a reissue of my letter to Nicholas Clegg – others should write in to the formal consultation. The government has announced their intention to abolish all or most of items 4,16,17,18 and 27 so far. Please feel free to use the parts of this you support for your [...]

Dear Mr Clegg, Congratulations on your appointment as Deputy Prime Minister. I was pleased to read a copy of your first speech in that role, where you set out an excellent agenda for strengthening our civil liberties and repealing measures taken [...]

I once wrote that whilst the left in the media and politics endlessly run their scissors over the defence budget to look as if they wish to curb spending, the far larger social security budget gets ignored. Social security costs [...]

Chilcot is a ticking time bomb, dormant for the moment, but still primed to explode within a few months.   And then what? Three central issues arise out of Chilcot.   The first is what happens if in accordance with the known facts the inquiry concludes that Tony Blair committed without consultation to [...]

The Guardian story about the 42 million green bulbs sent http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/07/energy-lightbulbs-wasted-lax-regulation to British homes under the CERT (carbon emission reduction scheme) in the last quarter of last year, though few customers had asked for them, illustrates how devious and manipulative comopanies are when left to their own devices in an [...]

Those of my readers who are concerned about the ever-advancing power of the state and its agencies (and there are, I can assure you, quite a few) could do worse than bookmark the Big Brother Watch website. Big Brother Watch’s mission statement is as follows: Big Brother Watch fights injustice and campaigns [...]