London Disruption

I am working from home today because I work in the City and rely on the Tube to get me to work. There are alternatives, but they are a lot slower and on a day like today my chances of even getting on a bus would be remote (I’ve tried it before).
I really do find [...]

Another fantastic speech from the South East’s star MEP, Daniel Hannan

Conservative result in Wales

I am delighted to hear that we have topped the poll in my native Wales, although we remain on 1 seat, with Labour dropping  a seat to UKIP. The Labour vote went down 12%.

European Elections

I’ve just returned home from the European election count in Reading. Whilst the result for the South East Region hasn’t come in yet, in Reading Borough the Conservative Party came out as clear winners with the Labour vote trailing off sharply. But the biggest story of the evening was the poor performance of the Lib [...]

And the French Open champion is….

ROGER FEDERER!!!!!!!
I am absolutely delighted that Roger has won the French Open, finally equalling Agassi’s achievement of winning all 4 slams at the same time as equalling Sampras’s record 14 slams.
His record in the slams over the last year is now better than Nadal’s; he has won 2 and reached the final of the [...]

French Open

This year, for the third year running, I hopped on the Eurostar over the Bank Holiday weekend to visit Paris and catch some live grand slam tennis at Roland Garros.
I saw both British No. 1s and both world no. 1s, as well as Roger Federer. When Nadal emerged onto court for his first [...]

Disintegrating Government

As you would expect, I’ve been out all day working on the election, firstly with a spot of telling at a polling station and then running a committee room.
I got home shortly after polls closed, only to hear on the radio in the car that James Purnell has resigned from the Cabinet. He waited until [...]