Archive for September 5th, 2007

John Biffen - a belated tribute

September 5th, 2007

The death of John Biffen came just before my holiday. His political life is a reminder that independence of mind and approach is a useful asset to a political party, and should not be shunned. His treatment at the hands of Bernard Ingham was disgraceful. I think that Sir Bernard regretted it [...]

At Last - More Photographs!!

September 5th, 2007

Thanks to the good offices of Tim, my long-suffering webmaster, I am now able to upload more photographs to the blog. Here are two of my favourites:
This well-loved comic children’s character is standing with a large penguin who speaks Icelandic. I was even more excited than Millie and George when I [...]

DNA - A two-edged Sword?

September 5th, 2007

Am I the only person to be surprised that it was none other than Stephen Sedley who has proposed a nationwide DNA database?  Sedley LJ’s credentials could hardly be described to be authoritarian, I had thought.  Whatever your views about such a database, there can be no doubt that the practical problems would be huge.
I [...]