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MEP Robert Sturdy calls for Environment Secretary to Resign
MEP Robert Sturdy is naturally outraged at how Margaret Beckett, the Environment Secretary, fails to take responsibility for her department, which includes Food and Rural Affairs. His letter calling on her to resign was today published in the Eastern Daily Press. The...
How Open Should Ministers be on their Blogs?
David Milliband and I are now officially having a conversation. This time two days ago he had never heard of me and now I am urging him to be open about his views on all issues, not just ministerial matters, when he updates his blogs. I'm delighted that someone else...
Meet the Newsman Behind the Specs
Fellow newshounds might enjoy logging on to Nick Robinson's blog, the bespectacled BBC political correspondent. I see he is also a favourite of David Milliband, who has so far failed to include my comment on his site - very bad form if he is promoting honesty and open...
The Day I Met Arianna Huffington
I followed up one of David Milliband's recommended links from his blog after noticing that he is an admirer of writer Arianna Huffington's blog. I met her once when she was Arianna Stassinopoulos, she must have been with her true love Bernard Levin then. They had a...
Government Minister David Milliband challenged about his openness
It's never been easier to access a Government Minister - or has it? David Milliband, the Minister of Communities and Local Government, went live a couple of days ago and I decided to check out his blog. Having spent last night reading one of the most authoritive books...
The greatest pleasure in life
It's not what you might be thinking! For me it's about giving. Just read tonight's Cambridge Evening News' "Living & Life" supplement and learn about the "lucky ones" at Headway Cambridgeshire, the brain injury charity, who survived horrific accidents and are now...
Blogging PR and Headway celebrations
John Bridge, President of Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce Kate Lewis and Anne Campbell Robert Sturdy MEP with Peter Cranswick at Welney WWT Today I put my PR blogging ideas to the test at a networking breakfast organised by Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce There...
Great start to the day – and discovering nature
Tracy, Liz and me walking through Cambridge to Grantchester Empty deck chairs at The Orchard Tea Rooms, Grantchester Perfectly planted cyclamen I had good news first thing this morning with a reply from Blogging4Business allowing me a media pass to attend this event....
Walking to a ripe old age – and lunch at Ellee’s
Geoff Jones Fascinating to learn in today's Cambridge Evening News that we have the UK's oldest lady on our doorstep who has just turned 106, that she used to walk several miles to school each day, but the article fails to say exactly how many miles, questions should...