The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer - for our MPs

THEY'RE off. Time to pack up their offices and head for Tuscany, the golf courses of France, the Greek islands, or - with all the time at their disposal - a four week long haul break south of the Equator. Yes folks, your MPs are off on 76 days holiday,...

Middlesex v Glamorgan at Southgate

AFTER a gap of 20 years, I ventured to a county cricket game yesterday, when my son persuaded me to go with him to Southgate to watch Middlesex take on Glamorgan in a 40 overs match. It was my first visit to this lovely little ground situated not...

The heat's on London.

YESTERDAY, I was stuck in a tube train for seven minutes between Embankment and Temple. London underground does not have air conditioning, and the best advice give to intending passengers is: carry a bottle of water with you. This week, temperatures...

The pressure piles on cornered Cameron

THERE'S a double edged sword to the left in Britain and Europe vigorously campaigning for equal rights for all minorities in Poland. Labour in the UK and the Socialist group in the European Parliament are, of course, absolutely right to dragoon...

Alan Duncan (who?) stirs up the Scots

PINT sized Alan Duncan is a Tory shadow Cabinet minister. You may never have heard of him, unless it's in the context of him being one of the few senior openly gay Tories. Last weekend, he dropped a massive clanger when he inferred that Gordon Brown...

A day to recall infimy and courage - but Prezza will soon be back in the headlines

IN the great scheme of things, John Prescott's tomfoolery pales into insignificance as we remember, 12 months on, the horrific attacks on the London transport system which wiped out 52 people. This week's underground crash in Valencia...

Go nuclear - again

OH DEAR! No sooner had I posted the original blog that an e-mail pinged into my in box from none other than the Liberal Democrats and it won't surprise you know that I am at odds with the thinking of Sir Ming Campbell. "Nuclear is a tried, tested and...

Go nuclear

I must becoming soft because I've found yet another subject on which I agree with the Prime Minister - energy security and climate change targets cannot be achieved without a new generation of power stations. In other words, let's embrace the nuclear...