I have a hectic month ahead of me, so I shall be taking a summer break from blogging. We are spending some time in London over the next few days and have booked into a boutique hotel in Covent Garden for a few nights. I am so looking forward to the buzz of city life...

My MEP Robert Sturdy is co-chair of the WTO inter-parliamentary group and was in Geneva last week for the latest Doha trade talks which collapsed. Heated talks among the six core “Doha round” negotiators – India, Brazil, the US, EU, Japan and...

I doubt Gordon Brown was walking along the Southwold promenade today when hundreds of angry protesters demonstrated over government policy of abandoning its crumbling coastline. The Environment Agency plans to withdraw funding for vital flood defences on the...

I breastfed my eldest son David to Countdown and thought I had reared a child genius when he could recite many upper case letters of the alphabet before the age of two, before he could even speak properly. However, he never did master the conundrum or numbers game...

I'm taking my mother to the Cotswolds for a few days. She has  seen very little of England's glorious countryside outside East Anglia and I'm hoping she will enjoy its unspoilt, picturesque villages. It's her birthday treat from my sister and I. I last visited...

"“How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!” Those were the optimistic words of Anne Frank on 26 March, 1944. I was reminded of them yesterday when I joined this year's winners of the Anne Frank Awards 2008...

Newsnight will ask its panel tonight: " What kind of life can a chicken have had when it ends up sold at Tesco for £2?" The answer is obviously none. It then continues to ask if anyone can afford to care when food prices are tripling and it costs nearly £75 to fill...