With a hat tip to Mark Thompson….. 1. All three main political party leaders will be in post at the end of the year. However, there will be continual media speculation about the future of all. 2. The Coalition will still be in Government. 3. A Conservative Cabinet member – my bet is Liam Fox [...]
The Coalition Government did something today that Labour failed to do for no good reason – take a serious step to stop greedy, debt-ridden predators such as Enterprise Inns shutting pubs and imposing restrictive covenants to stop them reopening. The BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12097227) has the story, which fits in with the wider direction of the Localism [...]
I’ve had the full range of emotions in my experience of Vince Cable over the years. Determined and assiduous are two words you can certainly use to describe the Business Secretary. Naive was not a word that would have come to mind….. The script is incredible. The villains of the piece are many. The unprincipled [...]
Three quick thoughts about the ‘revelations’ in the Telegraph today:- 1. It reveals how Vince Cable appears to have become the bête noire for the Tory right, bizarrely after having steered through Parliament student finance decisions which one would have thought they would have loved. The line of a reshuffle with a straight Cable/Laws swap is coming from their sources, something [...]
aka Captain Beefheart, although as an artist Don was incredibly popular, abstract and enigmatic, as in real life. A friend of mine way back in the 1980s initiated me into Beefheart. It took me a few years, it’s fair to say, to get it. When I did, it changed the way I listen to music [...]
