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Who has failed our children?
It's half-term week this week, the kids are at home, but are they happy there? According to a stinging Unicef report, the UK is accused of failing its children, coming bottom of the league table. It looked at 40 indicators, including poverty, peer and family...
Long live romance, but not just for today
I can't not mention what today is with all those hearts and flowers at the top of my site. I wonder if men feel pressurised into buying cards and flowers to celebrate St Valentine's Day. I suspect they do. Although it smacks of consumerism, many men ignore it...
Archer’s lost shepherd returns to flock
I expect Bryan Applyard will sleep happier tonight knowing that the Archer's stolen sculptures have been recovered following a sensational overnight swoop by police at a Cambridgeshire village. The boys in blue turned out in full force, with eight police cars swarming...
Gordon Brown hammers Chernobyl charity for airport tax
A Chernobyl charity's plea to Gordon Brown to waive airport taxes for bringing sick children to the UK for recuperative breaks has fallen on deaf ears. The Chancellor has refused to exempt it on humanitarian grounds. The adorable looking girls in this...
Council coughs up light bulb compensation
A person who injured their hand on a light bulb is to be paid compensation by Cambridge City Council. And so is a Cambridge Folk Festival reveller who slipped. These are two compensation claims highlighted in today's Cambridge Evening News, they were obtained by the...
Blue Shark bites into politics
Welcome to Blue Shark, the inspirational new multimedia blog launched today by a bunch of very proactive young Tories. I met Caroline Hunt when we sat on the sofa at 18 Doughty Street, she has verve, passion and intelligence and is a great force behind this new...
Will Obama’s drug past hinder his bid for the White House?
As David Cameron woke up today to more headlines about smoking cannabis at Eton, I wonder if Barak Obama's drug past will hinder his bid for the White House. He has openly admitted taking cocaine as a teenager, saying this about himself in a...
Should Hillary Clinton be more cyber savvy?
Could Hillary Clinton's bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination hinge on how cyber savvy she is in the face of "web insurgents"? That is the claim made in today's Times by Joe Trippi, the strategic guru who helped to drive Howard Dean to the brink...
Correcting a few PR Week inaccuracies
For the second week running I am privileged to be mentioned in PR Week, the latest is today's special feature on blogging. Unfortunately, a profile about me is peppered with inaccuracies. Mostly they are quite minor, for example the reference to how Dell replaced my...