Robert Buckland Weblog

The gods smiled upon Swindon yesterday afternoon, as the annual Mela got under way at the Town Gardens. “Mela” is a Sanskrit word meaning “gathering”, and is a vital part of the relgious, social and commercial life of the Sub-continent. As I walked around the various stalls and smelt the wonderful aromas, I [...]

I am delighted with the news that I am to become a Godfather to little Thomas Kirby, six months of age. This comes in the middle of a rather busy ten days that can best be summed up as local progress, national confusion. How it came to be that a by-election in the [...]

Love them or hate them, it is hard to deny that 2007 has been the year of the croc. Yes, that odd-looking piece of shoewear which your children were seen in and which quickly becames an adult fetish. Even President Bush is wearing them -
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Get rid of the socks, Dubya! Adults should [...]

Have just finished Andrew Marr’s “History of Modern Britain”, having failed to see much of the TV series. If you like Marr’s journalistic and presentational style, then you will find this to be an engaging account that brings together many of the threads of British life that were difficult to make sense of at the [...]

The date and time of the next Swindon Special Educational Needs Network meeting has been fixed for 7.15pm on Tuesday 18th September at Wroughton Parish Church Hall, Prior’s Hill, Wroughton.  Apart from our usual group sessions, we will be joined by guest speaker Emma Turner, who is a solicitor specialising in Education Law and SEN [...]