The view from here

 This blog has always been a bit of a mixture of things. I've talked about woodwork, railway modelling, theology and probably a few thin...

If some of what I've seen and read over the last few days is true, then surely the saddest part of the whole EU Referendum vote is heari...

So it's polling day in the great referendum tomorrow. Time for some last day thoughts. If I'm really honest I'm far from convi...

With the date of the in-out referendum announced I'm bracing myself for the long campaign and all the contradictory information that wil...

With so much going on in the world it's difficult to know where to start. Watching the events in and around Iraq unfold, one can't h...

Well, in answer to my own question: We shall see. I'll confess that the older I get the less interested I am in voting, especially in ...

This is an interring short talk and worth a watch. It raises a number of issues, particularly around the role of the media, but it has impli...

So, Ken Clarke has given Middle England the data it needs to breathe a huge sigh of relief that the riots indeed where the work of a crimina...

I was listening to the news this morning when they were talking about David Cameron's announcement of a crackdown on benefit fraud. It i...

Well I thought we might have seen the end of the story with respect to the election by the end of the day yesterday, but Gordon Brown had ot...

Well, after many long weeks and even months of media frenzy, we appear to be headed straight into a balanced, or hung parliament. No surpris...

I didn't see all of last night's "ground-breaking" first in British politics, but I saw enough. Personally, I didn't l...