Sandy 4 St Albans

I have just signed the on-line petition on the Royal British Legion website calling on the Government to honour the implicit covenant with members of the armed forces that they and their families will be properly looked after in terms of housing, medical care and pensions in view of the risks they undergo on behalf [...]

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Why am I not surprised that the Liberal Democrats continue to set the green standard that other parties need to meet? A survey of party policies by all the different environmental campaign groups published today showed we are three times as green as the Labour Party, and streets ahead of the Tories.

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Hats off to Wendy Berriman in Bricket Wood for organising today’s garden party at her home in aid of Keech Cottage Children’s Hospice.  She even organised the weather!  The food was brilliant and with the aid of scores of helpers young and old, hundreds of people really enjoyed the day, not least myself!  They raised [...]

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Two alarming sets of statistics about the health of our young people have just been published in response to Liberal Democrat parliamentary questions.

The prescription by doctors of anti-depressants and other mind-aletring drugs among schoolchildren has more than quadrupled in the past decade.

And the number of children aged 15 and under being admitted to A&E departments [...]

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What a terrible result yesterday for "David Cameron’s Conservatives" – pushed back into third place in the Sedgefield by-election and falling still further behind the Liberal Democrats  in Ealing Southall.

Two constituencies, one in multicultural West London and one in Labour’s northern heartland.  Labour saw its majority slashed in both seats with Ming Campbell’s Liberal Democrats [...]

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I see on the BBC website that the Conservative candidate for the Ealing Southall by-election next week is to be described on the ballot paper as David Cameron's Conservative.  Does that mean that there are David Davies' Conservatives out there? 

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I have just been to the excellent exhibition of 1930s London Transport posters at St Albans City Museum.  Go and see it.  There are some fascinating images by some world-famous artists.  Many of the images relate to St Albans in a kinder, gentler era, including a dramatic internal view of St Albans Abbey. 

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The proposed "Britain Day" is another piece of Labour nonsense.  I can think of nothing more depressing and less British than a compulsory celebration of voluntary service, which seems to be what they are proposing.

Today is World Environment Day – another artificial concept but at
least not a fake celebration.  After all there is little to [...]

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St Albans is slugging it out with Cambridge for top spot on the proposed Monopoly Here and Now UK edition.  So cast your vote early and often  – well once a day anyway which is allowed in the rules.  Cambridge was less than 100 votes in front when I cast my vote today.  (Bizarrely Burgess [...]

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With friends like the current Government, Tesco need not worry about its enemies.

The government’s review of planning is about to suggest that they scrap the ‘needs test’, which allows local planning authorities to include need when deciding supermarket planning applications. If they bring this in, it will only make it harder for us to defeat [...]

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