Honouring International Women’s Day

Honouring International Women’s Day

I will be honouring International Women’s Day today by attending an event in the House of Lords entitled, “Achieving Equality in Parliament.” It is organised by WAFE – Women worldwide Advancing Freedom and Equality and I  shall be interested to hear their...
The Jon Venables legal quagmire

The Jon Venables legal quagmire

If reports that Jon Venables – one of the killers of Jamie Bulger – is correct and he is to be charged with offences of a sexual nature, then we face an unprecedented legal quagmire. The law seems to be bending over backwards to nurture and protect Venables...
Controlling from the grave

Controlling from the grave

I’ve been reading Winston Churchill’s obit in The Times today and it describes how  his mother, the glamorous Pamela Harriman, left him $6 million in her will – on condition that he shared it equally with his first wife who he had divorced; he went on to...
Should the Yorkshire Ripper be released?

Should the Yorkshire Ripper be released?

Peter Sutcliffe is seeking a release date from prison on the grounds that he was wrongly convicted of the murder of 13 women because he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of his crimes. The High Court was told yesterday by Kevin Murray, a consultant...
Potholes, potholes and more potholes

Potholes, potholes and more potholes

It seems that every road I drive on at the moment has potholes, potholes and more potholes.  There were literally dozens of them around every corner I turned today, some quite enormous ones. I spent a couple of hours swerving all over the road to avoid sinking...
My doorstep twitchers in pursuit of the waxwing

My doorstep twitchers in pursuit of the waxwing

The Cambridgeshire street I live in has become a mecca for excited twitchers who have spotted a couple of waxwings making a rare appearance to the UK this winter. The enthusiasts were virtually on my doorstep early this morning with their long lenses aimed at a rowan...