I was at Madison Square Gardens when Edward Kennedy delivered his great concession speech at the 1980 Democratic Convention. It was a moment of great theatre which I will always remember – culminating in that great phrase “The dream will never die”.
His actual campaign for the democratic nomination against a wounded and struggling Jimmy [...]
Entries from August 30th, 2009
“The dream will never die”
August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Great turn-out for Nick Clegg in St Albans
August 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Sandy's blog
We were slightly worried that the Thursday before Bank Holiday would not be the ideal time to attract a crowd to a political meeting. We should not have been concerned. Three hundred people packed into the Marlborough Road Methodist Church to hear Nick take questions from all comers.
He uses no intermediary to pick the questioners. [...]
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How can a divided and embittered Conservative party be trusted to stand up for St Albans?
August 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Not for nothing is August called the silly season. But events in the St Albans Conservative Association have been nothing less than astonishing. Mrs Main has fought off her fellow Conservatives for now, but at the cost of losing her constituency chairman and with the Deputy Chairman reported as “considering his position”.
And we [...]
Nothing beats a British bucket and spade holiday
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Cadgwith on the Lizard peninsula is a sublimely beautiful place. The weather has been mostly kind and we have managed to swim most days – the water is colder than Normandy/Brittany where we went last week for my niece’s birthday but much warmer than the north of Scotland where we normally jump in and jump [...]