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 Welcome to my blog. I am a former local journalist who now works in PR and a Conservative and community activist in Woking and Horsell. This blog will keep updated on local issues as well as my interests and quirky news stories.    |
In the dark – Broadcasting House seems to have its own view on economics Apparently two separate blog entries in lightning succession trying to make hay out of the Hatfield House meetings clearly wasn’t enough for Nick Robinson, who surely won’t still be BBC Political Editor by the end of the year. The fact that [...] Well, don’t you feel better now? The UK is officially out of recession (link to The Times because the BBC’s coverage reads like a Treasury press release), so we can all get back in our cars, go back to shopping in Waitrose and start thinking about re-mortgaging the house. Not quite. Because the government has [...] The Home Secretary has revealed that the level of terror threat to the public has been officially increased to “severe” by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre. This comes a few days after flights to and from Yemen were suspended. Does anyone else see a pattern emerging here? I have said before that I anticipate [...] Many of today’s papers carry the story about the BBC having to back down over the new series of Gardener’s World, due to begin in March. I had read about the controversy surrounding the changed format of the show for 2009, especially from the established viewers. But I think the corporation should have stood [...] The man who nose – Ken Clarke As well as spinning madly about security, Labour’s press team has also been trying to get stuff into the paper along the lines that the Conservative will be cutting spending and raising taxes after Ken Clarke said it would be “folly” to rule out tax increases. [...] Well that’s it, it’s now 2010 and a very Happy New Year to you. It’s been a fantastic New Year’s Day – a bit chilly but lovely and sunny and if you’ve been walking on the common today, I hope you enjoyed the midwinter stillness as I did. It’s going to be a busy [...] One of the key things in the the Pre-Budget Report was the headline to “halve Britain’s deficit” during the next four years, bringing this down from 12% of GDP where it currently stands (up from 2% in 2007) to 6.5%. In other words we are going to reduce the £180bn-a-year borrowing levels to something [...] British soldiers in southern Afghanistan I see that the BBC is placing a visit by the PM to troops in Afghanistan high up on the news agenda. That would be fine, were it not for the PM’s sake and a timely reminder of our troops’ ongoing stalemate in the country. The corporation is [...] Your exchequer needs you… Looking at all the papers this morning, it seems that they are pretty unanimous in their distaste for the Pre Budget Report announced yesterday. Even the BBC led with a Conservative-slanted headline (the old “denies” trick frames the allegation neatly without defamatory undertones). Labour has had a long time [...] |
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