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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Modern mores
I took an old friend to the shops the other day to buy some new shoes (he is 76). We decided to grab a bite at a snack bar I noticed he was … Continue reading
Mediterranean misery
The television images from the Mediterranean are truly horrific but the solution being pressed on European nations by charities cannot be the right answer. They seem to want a return to the Mare Nostrum but at an enhanced level. All … Continue reading
Living in a Green world
I am not prone to nightmares but I come closest to suffering one after seeing Natalie Bennett, the leader of the UK Green Party, on TV. What sort of world would we find ourselves living in if UK electors were … Continue reading
The irony of health and social care
David Cameron has upped the election stakes over NHS funding by guaranteeing to fund the £8 billion deficit the NHS is predicting. Labour are struggling to follow suit. Inevitably, the Liberals have already committed, knowing they will never form a … Continue reading
Green Belt no help to North Oxon
David Cameron and Eric Pickles have both promised to keep the Green Belt and have hinted that Labour will build over it. People living in my old County Council Division (Adderbury, Bloxham, Bodicote, Milcombe and Milton) may believe this is … Continue reading
Blair rides to the rescue
It is fascinating to see Tony Blair apparently riding to the rescue of the Miliband election machine today, supported by his wife Cherry. The family warfare between the Miliband brothers, David and Ed, was about the political direction of the … Continue reading
Milton’s got its pub back
This is Milton in North Oxfordshire and the pub is the Black Boy. It has been my local for 30 years and I have seen almost as many landlords. There is a story to tell about many of them but … Continue reading
Harry Mount – good on The Blob; poor on grammar
Harry Mount has written a brilliant piece in The Telegraph today. Here is a link. It is about the growing number of tutors employed by parents with children in the state sector. He blames the continuing failure of the UK state education … Continue reading
Regionalism returns
In 2004, John Prescott tried very hard to establish elected regional government in England. He selected North East England for his attempt, believing this was an area that saw itself as a region and would support the idea. He failed … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridgeshire, functional economic area, growth, Oxfordshire, Prescott, regionalism
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NHS – a national religion
It seems to me that the National Health Service has become something akin to a new religion in this country. Its holiness is unquestionable; its integrity is unimpeachable; its right to exist and to grow cannot be assailed. It occupies … Continue reading
