Labour Leadership Interesting this. The safe pair of hands, Alan Johnson, has fumbled with an unnecessary spat with some opinionated scientists over drugs. There is no point in asking for advice, ignoring it, then sacking the adviser when he complains that you have taken no notice of his conclusions. Maybe those hands are not so safe after […]
Schools We are in a tangle here. Either all schools are of a high standard so the nearest in your neighbourhood is right for your child or, if they vary, and there are not enough places in the best schools, there has to be a system of selection. The mantra is parents should have choice, […]
David Miliband The Foreign Secretary is in trouble with Cameron over remarks made about a Polish politician who leads the gouping which the Tories have joined in the European Parliament. After the Chief Rabbi of Poland waded in and said Miliband got it wrong Cameron has demanded, but will not get, an apology. David Miliband is […]
President Obama Barak Obama is a inspirational leader. Because of this he is President of The United States of America. His decision to allow H.I.V. sufferers to enter the U.S is courageous . This is just another sign that America wants to rejoin the world community. A good move now would be to allow U.S Citizens to […]
The Blair Dream Fades So it looks as if the motorcade factor was not enough. Too few of the movers and shakers in Europe are willing to back the Blair canditature for the Presidency of the Council. Neither he nor his friends have understood a simple truth. Britain’s most glitzi Prime Minister since Pitt the […]
Child Protection As visitors to my website will know I have an ongoing focus on this issue, although it does not come up in my book. Earlier in the year I put forward a plan for radical reform, the key element of which was the incorporation of both the legal and investigative elements under one roof. […]
Foreign Office Priorities Yesterday I called the Foreign Office and asked for the official view of John Bolton’s nuking Iran by Israel plan. They did not have one. They never comment about things said overseas by foreign politicians. How peculiar. They are not the Home Office. They are the Foreign Office. They can’t afford to […]
Iran President Ahmadinejad is reported to have said that he is willing to move from confrontation to cooperation over nuclear fuel. This is very welcome news. It is a success for the Obama administration’s decision to give diplomacy the lead role in this divisive issue. The doves will see it as vindication. So may the hawks. […]
Lib Dems I discover the Liberal Democrats have as one of their policies a written Constitution for our country. Good for them. They may very well find that this gives them several hundred thousand very useful votes at the General Election. Caught between UKIP and the Lib Dems, the Tories could find their road to […]