General Interest 
Time for Party Conference radicalism and a more rational opposition(0)
An odd thing happened to the Conservative Party conference this year – it changed. I have been to many conferences, although to be honest it is only in the past five or so years that I have endured the entirety of the event. What was odd was the atmosphere of virtual disdain for the process [...]
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A New Year
This has been a welcome long break over Christmas and New Year. The changing face of the UK economy seems not to have dampened the spirits of those who went shopping after Christmas. There was, apparently, a 12% increase in retail footfall in the last week of December and on the few occasions I ventured [...]
Darling commits borrowing suicide
2 Image via Wikipedia I have just listened to the most concerning financial statment from a Chancellor I think this country has ever faced. We are being told that Labour are going to borrow so much money to try and get the economy out of the mud that they cannot repay any of it until [...]
Richard Hickox dies
Image via Wikipedia As many of you will know I am very committed to being a part-time amateur singer and the news this morning that Richard Hickox has died will come as a great shock to many. He was a great man who had a strong comitment to choral music and it is tragic that [...]