Originally posted @ 4:19 pm, Thu 3rd Sep 2009 The 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War. The media today seem united in...

Originally posted @ 11:55 pm, Mon 7th Sep 2009 Intriguing article from the Mirror today. Just as many people are wanting more council...

Originally posted @ 10:58 pm, Wed 9th Sep 2009 ... kinda. It was actually the East Midlands Regional Grand Committee of the House of...

Originally posted @ 9:15 am, Wed 9th Sep 2009 Good news to see 29 local authorities getting Government support to build council houses...

Originally posted @ 3:41 pm, Mon 24th Aug 2009 I have to be a bit careful about celebrating the Ashes victory. In 1922, my dad’s Auntie...

Originally posted @ 7:23 pm, Mon 31st Aug 2009 My Mum is recovering having had an artificial hip fitted at the orthopaedic hospital in...

Originally posted @ 5:57 pm, Sun 16th Aug 2009 A level results due this week; GCSEs next. That can only mean one thing - time to...

Originally posted @ 3:28 pm, Mon 24th Aug 2009 Had 2 funerals to attend last Wednesday. - Margaret Snowden was a fellow Governor at my...

Originally posted @ Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 07:30 ... STAFF at Toyota's Burnaston car factory have returned to full-time working – but...

Originally posted @ 7:59 am, Wed 19th Aug 2009 Yesterday's presentation by David Cameron, alongside Nassim Nicholas Taleb, has produced a...

Originally posted @ 3:50 pm, Fri 14th Aug 2009 Not that the highest opening weekend Football League attendance (discussed previously)...

Originally posted @ 3:44 pm, Mon 24th Aug 2009 The Independent on Sunday highlights Tory plans to re-introduce hunting, and in the...

Originally posted @ 1:00 am, Sun 16th Aug 2009 Answered a poll on fox hunting via Facebook today. Answers were almost 50-50, which...

Originally posted @ 8:36 am, Sat 15th Aug 2009 The crankiness of the Tories in Europe showed again yesterday after Roger Helmer, Tory MEP...

Originally posted @ 10:15 pm, Mon 31st Aug 2009 “The only reliable, durable, and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit.” - James...

Originally posted @ 3:31 pm, Mon 24th Aug 2009 Visited Runnymede – the site of the signing of the Magna Carta - proclaimed by local signs...

Originally posted @ 12:43 am, Sun 16th Aug 2009 Disappointing that the Tories' lead on MP's allowances has said that he feels like he's...

Originally posted @ 10:12 pm, Thu 27th Aug 2009 The latest in the "education has been dumbed down" charge was a bizzare appearance this...

Originally posted @ 12:25 pm, Wed 12th Aug 2009 Nearly 1% of people in England and Wales attended a Football League match this last...