Thanks for voting me in the Top Ten

Thanks for voting me in the Top Ten

I’m thrilled and delighted to be ranked at No 10 in Iain’s 2007 Guide to Political Blogging voted for by fellow bloggers and readers. It includes a list of 500. A thousand thanks to you all. What particularly thrills me is that my blog is enjoyed by a wide...
The Foreign Office blog

The Foreign Office blog

Congratulations to David Miliband for launching a blog as Foreign Secretary. I know he made mistakes with his Defra site, which he has acknowledged, and I am chuffed to still be included on his new blogroll. I did predict back in July that he might be blogging again...
Ending sex slavery is not a Home Office target

Ending sex slavery is not a Home Office target

Let’s hope Home Secretary Jacqui Smith reads the report in today’s Times about sex slavery in Cambridgeshire. Women are said to be traded in auctions for between £500 and £3,000. They are then virtual prisoners in rented houses. An investigation...
Is Gordon Brown now a lady’s man?

Is Gordon Brown now a lady’s man?

First he wows Lady Thatcher, then make Mariella Frostrup come over “all unncessary”. How many more women can Gordon Brown woo in the run up to the increasingly imminent election? I wonder if he has been following advice given in The Statesman which pointed...
Our missed IT election opportunities

Our missed IT election opportunities

I have just heard on the radio that Labour is appointing key staff for campaigning logistics and media relations – to start next Monday – gearing up for an autumn general election. Whatever the outcome, I am disappointed that we did not use this last year...