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When will Al Gore join Obama’s team?
How long will it be before Al Gore is leading Barack Obama's climate change programme? The Nobel Peace Prize winner described his frustrations at being unable to persuade the Bush administration to take climate change seriously when I heard him speak in Cambridge....
My Woman’s Hour plug
A thousands thanks to Iain Dale for his spectacular plug of my blog on Woman's Hour today. He was taking part in a discussion on political blogs after Hazel Blears accused political bloggers of undermining democracy. The ill informed Communities Minister made a speech...
Good morning America
Congratulations to Barack Obama, America's first black president. It is an extraordinary and exciting achievement having persuaded the country with one word - change. Whatever your politics, his sharp and tireless campaign team must be admired for its incredible...
From food to fuel
Sainsbury's is to stop dumping thousands of tons of waste food at landfill sites and will instead use it to generate its own electricity by converting it into methane gas. This gas will be used to provide light and heat for its stores. What concerns me about this is...
Will Obama be America’s first black president?
I believe I was the first political blogger in the UK to write about Barack Obama back in January 2007. Who could have guessed then that he would sensationally snatch the Democrat presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton, and is now only days from possibly being...
Have your blogs attracted media interest?
I was out walking across the flat Fenland countryside yesterday with Geoff and Sally when Geoff had an exciting call from the Discovery Channel seeking his permission to show a YouTube video he published about the demotion of Victoria Station in Nottingham. The...
Brand and Ross’s cheap laughs cost them dear
BBC bosses could not ignore the one story which has this week hijacked all major global news stories in the British media - the revolting Brand-Ross prank call. It displaced the credit crunch, the Peter Mandelson/George Osborne Corfu scandal and , as well...
Have you sought a second opinion?
Have you ever sought a second medical opinion? This story in The Mail describes how seeking a second opinion saved the lives of patients who were incorrectly diagnosed, including a woman whose mouth cancer was dismissed as post-natal depression, while a patient with a...
Will government pardon heroic Norfolk man hanged for treason?
The world is full of past injustices, but can they be put right centuries later by our present politicians? Norwich North MP Ian Gibson is today leading a debate in the House of Commons hoping to overturn the conviction of Norfolk hero Robert Kett, who was executed...