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Tackling demand for prostitution
A charity I am promoting which aims to abolish sex trafficking has praised Harriet Harman for her bravery in considering a ban on prostitution. I agree. It is an issue which has been badly fudged in the past. Dr Carrie Pemberton, founder and CEO of CHASTE (Churches...
What’s on your Christmas book list?
I am not making a Christmas book list this year as I still haven't got round to reading so many books that I bought over the last few months. And apologies for not updating the books listed on my blog, particularly as I know readers have checked them out and bought...
Who’s Who in Cambridge
If you don't receive a New Year's Honour this year, how about trying to get included in the next bumper volume of Who's Who? It could be the next best thing. There are 38 new entries from Cambridge in the latest edition, mainly academics from the University. The...
Have you read the Climate Change Minister’s blog?
Do you know who our Minister for Climate Change is? He is Phil Woolas. Phil who, you might be asking? This is a man with one of the hottest jobs in government right now. His responsibilities also include flooding, as well as GMOs, chemicals, pesticides and...
Capello and his first English challenge
I'm sure Welshcakes would be delighted to help England's newly crowned Italian football manager Fabio Capello learn English. She is teaching it to young Italians in Sicily - but believes Capello's linguistic dream is impossible to achieve: "All I can say is that I'd...
A day of festive fun – and work
I have one humdinger of a day. Firstly, I shall be wearing my Headway hat today as I join its Cambridgeshire members as a helper in my role as trustee on their annual panto trip to The Arts Theatre, Cambridge to see Cinderella. Headway is particularly thrilled and...
Do Blair and tennis go together?
You have to wonder if it is the same Tony Blair. Our premier of old whose government did nothing to save school playing fields from being sold off and promote their use for health and fitness, is now advocating tennis as a sport which notherners should participate...
Who is Zineta, my new mystery friend?
As I sit in my digitally equipped office and listen to the village school children singing their Christmas carols outside, a cosy fire roaring in the room next door, I pause to think about my new friend Zineta, and the kind of life she is having in Bosnia....
Do our kids have the same hunger to succeed?
Three times in the last hour I have walked into my son David's bedroom where he was supposed to be deeply engrossed in his studies only to find him feverishly excited about a computer game. This is not an isolated incident, it is a very common occurrence. He needs to...