Robert Buckland Weblog

As the weeks pass by, more and more evidence is emerging about the scale of the disaster facing the Prison Service. I mean no irony whatsoever when I blame the Government, because just about everyone who knows anything about the penal system agrees. First take a Chancellor (Mr. Brown) who had a populist-based [...]

A very wintry Friday evening saw about seventy to eighty people come to a public meeting on the EU Treaty organised by North Swindon Labour MP Michael Wills. South Swindon’s current MP was also speaking, and both Justin Tomlinson and I were invited to take part. A representative of UKIP was also on [...]

The importance of early intervention and support from the wider community for some of our children was underlined for me when I visited the Toothill Youth Club on Friday of last week. I was the guest of the Club for the Official Opening, performed by Deputy Mayor and local ward member Cllr Steve Wakefield. We were [...]

Troubled times for Kenya; tourists are being flown home and holidays have been cancelled because of the election crisis. My memories of Kenya (or “Keenya” – it can be both), were shaped when we visited that beautiful and fertile country on our honeymoon just over ten years ago. Daniel Arap Moi was in [...]