In case the dear old Telegraph doesn’t publish my letter, here it is.
Sir,
It is a pity that your headline of yesterday (3rd. November) accused David Cameron of ‘reneging’ on his commitment to a referendum on Lisbon, when in fact he had no choice in the matter.
The pledge he gave in 2007 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Personal’
November 4, 2009
LisbonTreaty: letter to DT
November 2, 2009
Have you been checked?
Readers will have gathered from the exchange between self and Martin de Kauwe (see Recent Comments) that I am an ex-teacher. In fact I taught History to secondary age boys and sixth formers of both genders for 32 years all told.
Recently I was asked along with other councillors to volunteer to have a young person [...]
May 21, 2009
Lord Paul Dean and Anne Bretherick RIP
It was with great sadness that I learned over the last two days of the deaths of Lord Paul Dean and Anne Bretherick. Both played a very important part in our life in North Somerset in the 1970s.
Paul was the MP for North Somerset and Anne was the Conservative agent in the constituency. As [...]
January 12, 2009
Adult Ed gets good report
It’s rather pleasing that Kingston’s Adult Education service has had a good report from Ofsted. Those that run it are, justifiably, proud of their achievement.
We ran a major scrutiny exercise on the service from the Residents Services Overview Panel some four or five years ago, and I hope this may have born some fruit. Of [...]
January 11, 2009
‘News’ of the World
Gasp! Shock!! Horror!!! Three years ago Prince Harry used two naughty words on a private video soundtrack. These words had racial connotations. The ‘News’ of the World is full of it and Sky ‘News’ last night was treating this ’story’ as of almost as much if not more importance than the Gzaz horror or the [...]
December 2, 2008
The pleasant part of council work
Last night I was asked to present the awards at School Lane Estate’s gardening tournament for 2008. The residents set out to show what could be done in an estate of maisonettes and sheltered flats to make the environment more colourful and greener. There isn’t much amenity space for tenants and leaseholders but people used [...]
