Robert Buckland Weblog

The high winds of the night have passed, and it is a lovely Saturday morning here in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.  A trip to France with the family curtailed my blogging, but I have been following the Scottish Executive’s decision to release the Locherbie bomber.  A naive decision that has had appalling results, I think.  [...]

Each year produces a crop of summer “silly season” political stories.  2008 proved to be a vintage year, with luxury yachts in Corfu and indiscretions committed by both Labour and Conservative politicians.  So far, this year has been a little more mundane.  A huge rift is supposed to have developed within the Tory Party over [...]

Lord Sugar’s ridiculous threat to sue the lobby correspondent Quentin Letts is not only an over reaction, but it also demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the natutre of the position he has now taken up.  As a member of one of the Houses of Parliament, Lord Sugar now enjoys the privilege of being able to [...]

So that’s it then.  The Secretary of State has written to agree with the recommendation of the Planning Inspector that two applications to develop land at Coate be rejected.   The ongoing saga that has been the history of development proposals for the area near to Coate Water Country Park has been a recurrent theme in [...]

Thanks to Natalie, one of my clerks in Chambers whose father runs a Post Office, 29 kilos of law books have departed these shores bound for Rwanda.  I have previously reported my plans in this regard – an extra book took the overall weight up by 3kgs.  My original intention had been to carry them [...]