Monthly Archives: December 2008

OK… another year gone, and another New Year’s Honours List that doesn’t recognise the sterling work carried out for the community by yours truly. Robert Piper OBE… or Sir Robert Piper, or a simple Baron Bob Piper of Warley Woods … Continue reading →

Last year when Mrs P. and myself visited Vietnam we exchanged correspondence with Our Man who was most helpful following his stay in Hanoi with VSO. We also checked things out on Trip Advisor, but with much less success. Some … Continue reading →

So, today we learn that the Party with a part-time leadership, busy supplementing their parliamentary salaries with fat cat salaries, are going to have a purge of town hall ‘fat cats.’ OK… let’s take a glance down the list of … Continue reading →

Which word do you think he has problems with…. Indian, head or massage? Amongst other things this treatment assists with alleviating severe headaches, tinnitus and other ear problems, neck and shoulder problems and insomnia. Still, they’re only policemen and women … Continue reading →

You can go on a little holiday with the Conservative Friends of Israel and return with a mindset about the current carnage in Gaza. Or, you can spend 30 years covering the Middle East as a foreign correspondent and come … Continue reading →

Because something is happening here But you don’t know what it is Do you, Mister Jones? Tom Watson points out that the demise of Woolies is part of a much bigger global redesign of consumer capitalism than just something described … Continue reading →

You could have expected Britain’s foremost political blogger to have expressed some sort of view about Channel 4′s decision to broadcast a Christmas message by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…. couldn’t you? Never slow to attack our very own state funded … Continue reading →

I’ve said on a number of occasions on this blog that one of the only front bench Tories to impress has been the Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley. I know from talking to people in the NHS that they are … Continue reading →

I see from Iain Dale’s poll that Damian Green was voted Shadow Frontbencher of the Year. When a Tory wins an award for nothing other than being arrested, it tells you everything you need to know about the rest of … Continue reading →

Craig Murray with a beautiful piece about Harold Pinter. Losing Pinter and Adrian Mitchell within a few days of each other is a savage loss to lovers of peace everywhere. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age … Continue reading →