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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Public services don’t work
I heard Nick Clegg on the Today programme recently extolling the importance of teachers in the education of children. This is the chap who led his Liberal party to extinction and, over five years of coalition, held back the Conservatives … Continue reading
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Tagged academies, education, free schools, junior doctors, NHS, Nick Clegg, schools, teachers
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Eurobabble
My thanks to Peter Barwell for supplying this interesting testimony to the European Union and one simple reason why we should vote to leave it on 23 June 2016. Pythagoras’ theorem – 24 words. Lord’s Prayer – 66 words. … Continue reading
Local elections – polling blues or red faces?
Thursday May 5 is polling day across the country. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the devolved administrations will all be up for election with their weird variations of proportional representation. In London, Boris Johnson’s term ends and Londoners will … Continue reading
Obama is not America
I am a great fan of the United States of America. It is the land of the free. The customer is still king. It is a country where a citizen seeing an expensive car or a large house will think “I … Continue reading
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Tagged Founding Fathers, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Kennedy, Lincoln, Obama, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Washington
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Parish pump puzzler
I rarely get excited about parish pump politics (small “p”) but I am interested to see the make-up of Adderbury’s next parish council. I can talk about the make-up before the elections on 5 May 2016 because Adderbury Parish Council … Continue reading
Return to sender
Cameron’s referendum leaflet rattled through my letter box on Monday. Today, I posted it back to him, not at No 10 where some minion would no doubt bin it but to his home address in West Oxon. I think it … Continue reading
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