David Milliband has a very trusting face and I'm sure he meant well when he started his blog, only he has fallen at the very first hurdle by not only failing to reply to those who started a conversation with him, but refusing to discuss topics that do not form part of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...