Archive for July, 2006

Are these really the top ten children=E2=80=99s heroes?

Are these really the top ten children’s heroes?

Are these really the top ten children’s heroes?

Geldof and MacArthur are children’s heroes | 24dash.com – Communities: Detailed below is apparently the top ten list of children’s heroes. I have no idea where this comes from and have to admit to feeling a little baffled by how some olf the names got on here. Still, the fact the list has beend rawn [...]

Charles & Diana – 25th wedding anniversary

BBC ON THIS DAY | 29 | 1981: Charles and Diana marry: Today would have been their 25th wedding anniversary? Where does time go and what a different place the world could have been, as I have previously commented.

A blast from the past

Criminals going unpunished in Kingston

Kingston & Surbiton Conservative Association. More Action, Less Talk !: I put out this press release last week concerning crime in Kingston. Kingston Police are hard working and innovative, but it really does concern me that so many are tied up writing forms instead of being out and about. Kingston is a relatively safe place [...]

The beginning of the end for Eden

BBC ON THIS DAY | 26 | 1956: Egypt seizes Suez Canal: There is quite a bit of debate about what signalled the start of the end of Anthony Eden. Historically it is seen as the Suez crisis and today is the 62th anniversary of the day that Nasser took over the Suez Canal, the [...]

How much do I agree with this?

Last week the BBC was reporting that David Cameron was making an argument for a greater sense of community in the places we live. There was also an epolitix analysis that had a go at Polly Toynbee and that peculiar man Heffalump. “Too many of us are strangers in our own streets,” he said. “People [...]

Lady Godiva rides through congested Oxford

I was in Oxford last week for a family reunion – wife’s side. Good lunch in the Thatcher Rooms at Sommerville College. The article linked below is for a modern day Lady Godiva who rode through Oxford for some film. She did it at 4.00am and it is no surprise because Oxford has become an [...]

A ceasefire from Beckett

ePolitix.com – Blair to meet Bush as crisis escalates: There is a rather curious debate going on concerning the Government’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in the Lebanin crisis. I say curious, because I am not sure I understand why there is an argument. On the one hand it hardly seems a problem saying [...]