Opinion / General Interest

Try this for a neat summary over at Money.co.uk of what the different parties claim to be planning to do with your money if they succeed tomorrow. Scary, mitigated somewhat by a strong majority of voters said to be favouring cuts in public spending rather than tax rises.

Via Iain Dale: aaaaargh At least there is one honest man left in the Labour Party.

Another sober, measured, fair-minded analysis by me of the way Government has tried to emulate Business for two decades. And failed: It all started back with Mrs Thatcher, who took the view that the Civil Service was full of stuffy, stodgy wets who needed to be a lot more businesslike. […]

My good deed today. As I was walking the dawg, I spotted a tiny lamb which had wriggled under a fence and was separated unhappily from Mother Sheep in the adjacent field. After some tomfoolery in the nettles I nabbed said lamb, and suppressing my baser instincts ("mmm – lamb […]

Is hosted by Trixy. Mainly dwelling on volcanic eruptions – and the fine dust of tedium settling on the UK as the general election campaign proceeds.

As fire and brimstone pour down on the UK as the ultimate woeful symbol of this Labour government, I am limping back across the continent after my flight home from Geneva was cancelled yesterday. Next stop – an attempt to get to Caen and board a ferry. I may be […]

Things do not get much more frabjous than this: 

… with her diplomatic husband, and has a great time. Could they have been the mysterious foreigners advising the Malta Prime Minister on how to deal with recalcitrant backbenchers? Imagine – a country full of heroes.