Robert Buckland Weblog

I pause amidst the packing to pay a brief tribute to Lord Deedes, who died yesterday. There is little I can add to the tributes being paid to him, save to say that I think that his death leaves Lord Carrington as the last surviving member of the MacMillan Cabinet. Bill Deedes came [...]

Just a quick note to say that I am about to go off on my holidays, returning in early September. I expect all the leaves to have fallen off the trees by the time I return, bearing in mind the premature onset of autumn that seems to have hit us. I was visiting [...]

The notion that flooding in Swindon is a once in a lifetime experience has, very sadly, been proved wholly wrong by events.  For the residents of Moresby Close in Westlea, to have three serious flooding episodes in four years means that there is something seriously wrong with the drainage system in West Swindon.  No-one can [...]

I am nursing some sunburnt skin after yesterday’s successful Green Action Day at Westleaze Play area. Despite an incursion of travellers, the West Swindon Conservative team and a number of local residents were able to get on with the work of litter clearing, pond raking, painting and graffiti removal that helped to improve a [...]

Avid readers of my blog (don’t all shout at once) will remember my trip to Israel last November. In June of this year, Conservative Friends of Israel published an article I wrote for their Magazine about the visit. It is reproduced in full below:
“The lively debate that has erupted in Israel about the [...]

I have been busy of late, and have failed to update this blog with work I have been doing with The Willows High School which is in the Tremorfa area of Cardiff.  In June, I met a GCSE Law student who was completing a Work Placement with staff at Cardiff Crown Court.  He was bright, [...]

The BBC’s decision to give great prominence to this week’s story about former Tory parliamentary candidate Ali Miraj and his dissatisfaction with David Cameron was not matched by other media outlets. The story is unremarkable because it did not involve a debate about policy or substance, but more a question of style and personality, [...]