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How should we treat evil lifers like Rose West?
While I strongly believe that prison should help rehabilitate offenders, how should evil lifers like Rose West be treated when they are locked up? West was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls, including her 16-year-old daughter,...
A happy house last night
I have two Tottenham mad fans in my house, and even my youngest son, a Man U supporter, cheered on Spurs' terrific 5-1 victory over Arsenal last night - the first time they have beaten their arch rivals in nine years. So you can imagine we had a very happy house last...
Paxman’s pants grips the nation
The question which springs to my mind over the apparent lack of support in M&S pants expressed by Newsnight's tough anchorman Jeremy Paxman is, how long does he expect them to last? On a day when the health of our economy takes a serious dive, Paxman has the nation...
YouTube help needed please
This is an appeal for any YouTube experts who can give me some technical advice. During my visit with Julian Sturdy and Yorkshire postmaster Aasif Rabbani to present their post office closure protest petition to 10 Downing Street, I made a video recording, but it...
The truth about Hackney, do you feel safe walking there?
If our Home Secretary Jacqui Smith doesn't feel safe walking in Hackney, what do the people who live and work there think? I asked a teacher I know at Hackney Free and Parochial Seconday School to tell me, and her response was very candid and eye-opening about the...
Protecting our kids
We know so little about what our kids are doing on the internet. My youngest son recently joined Bebo and it seems to take up much of his free time, he really enjoys it, and assures he is only conversing with school friends. And I believe him, despite his furtiveness...
Octogenarian dances his way to American chat show
There has been much publicity today about the sadness of elderly people and the loneliness they face. They are a generation of our society which I feel should be treated with more dignity and respect. I remember being told during a visit to Corsica that...
Could King’s Cross cope during a terrorist attack?
I have serious worries about how King's Cross would cope if there were to be another terrorist attack. I was at the station last night when all trains in and out of the station were cancelled due to signal failures. As you can imagine, it was chaos. If King's Cross...
No 10, Nick Robinson and the Mongolian ambassador
Who do you think was waiting for us when we arrived at No 10 yesterday with our post office petition? None other than the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson, I wonder who gave him the tip off about our visit. He was very charming and said he remembered me being on...