So, who was impressed with the Ask the Chancellors programme last night?  Nope, nor me. The three of them – Darling, Osbourne and Cable – were utterly unconvincing and short on ideas.  Darling and Osbourne were more interested in getting their catchphrases out whilst ignoring Cable who actually came across as the most credible person [...]

WWF has jumped on the global warming band wagon and organised Earth Hour, where it hopes people around the world will switch off their lights to save the planet. They’re hoping lots of fools with nothing better to do with their time will get out their solar-powered laptops, connected to their wind powered telephone exchanges [...]

The political system is rotten to the core and the coming election isn’t going to provide the purge we need to put it right. An investigation by the BBC has found 400 occasions where MPs have broken their own rules on declaring gifts of travel and hospitality.  Four hundred breaches by just 22 MPs, all [...]

Some people shouldn’t be allowed to breed, let alone run major engineering projects. Quite a few schools in Telford are being rebuilt and one of them is a few miles away from where I live.  The council have chosen a hill covered in woodland as the site of the playing fields for this new school.  [...]

I arrived home from work this evening to find a letter from the NHS. This letter was informing me that unless I opt out by the 31st of May, the NHS will create a “summary care record” in their spangly new multi-billion pound database.  The pitch informs me that in the first instance only details [...]

A year and a half ago I wrote about English PCTs weighing and measuring children and sending letters to parents telling them if their child is classed as obese on the fundamentally flawed BMI chart. Back then I said: The parents getting the “very overweight” letter will presumably put their child on a diet and [...]

Mark Pritchard, the Tory MP for Telford, has made a cryptic announcement on his website: Under Parliamentary rules governing the pre-election period, this website will not be updated from 1st January 2010 until the General Election.  What rules say that a sitting MP can’t update their official website before an election has been called?  I’m [...]