Adults have a right to view pornography

THE flood of emails enticing people to access sites with hundreds of pornographic images runs second in volume only to those from around the globe trying to flog viagra and the benefits the drug brings to all-night passion session. What is pornographic...

Don't panic: Captain Brown's in charge

YOUR country needs you!   As MPs get heated up over their pay, expenses and allowance - like Oliver they want more - Joe Public is being called to arms to form a civil defence network to protect Britain against natural disasters and terrorism....

End of tolls on the road to Harwich

THE London to Harwich Roads Act of 1695, which allowed county justices to set up turnpikes to set up tolls on the route, is to be repealed along with 259 other “obsolete” laws.   I doubt if anyone traversing today what are now the A12 and A120...

Rebel Ken and farewell Bob

ESSEX MP Bob Spink, who announced dramatically in a Commons point of order that he had resigned the Conservative whip, is angry with the party because, he claims, he's not getting enough help in his fight to stop him being deselected by his constituency...

Hats off to Essex county council

ESSEX county council's bold initiative to buy out closed or threatened with closure sub post offices is a supreme example of just how councils can interact with their communities in a way major corporations and remote government departments cannot....

Clegg - the Kevin Keegan of politics?

MUCH speculation on the Internet and in the media on long Nick Who? will last as Liberal Democrat leader. After all the years of Tory turmoil, the Lib Dems have assumed the mantle of a party which does not want to be led. The antics last week surrounding...

Nick Who?is in the stew as MPs reject referendum call

WHEN he was elected Liberal Democrat leader, I gave Nick Clegg the nickname Nick Who? An unknown, he has been all but anonymous in the past three months. Tonight, he caused a shambles in his parliamentary party over the Lisbon Treaty and frontbenchers...

Harry's return - the Royals act while the politicians chatter

So valiant Prince Harry is back from the war, unscathed and undaunted. Good for him - but especially well done the Royal Family. In 1982, the Queen did not seek to stop Prince Andrew, a helicopter pilot in the Royal Navy, from fighting in the Falklands...