A tale of two companies - and how British Telecom are crap!

Isn’t it interesting the customer service you receive. Having moved across the road (finally) into our new house, as the man of the house I had my priorities to sort out. That means ensuring Sky is installed and that broadband is working.
For ease – lets take Sky. I carry my Sky plus box over. The [...]

If you live by the spiv, you die by the spiv – Levy represents so much that is wrong with politics

It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for Gordon Brown – but I urge you to resist the temptation.
The news that “Lord” Levy had stuck his well-heeled boot into the prime minister should be taken for what it is: book – and self - promotion.
Yet spare no pity for Brown. There is, and never [...]

April 23rd, St George and all that jazz…

I have always been of the view that St George’s Day should be a public holiday here in England. Well I would say that of course wouldn’t I, as its my birthday. So today I shall be celebrating turning 33, and may wear an England rugby top to celebrate my Englishness.  But is that all [...]

New politics or same old?

If you want to see how far removed both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama are from what Obama nebulously terms the “new politics”, take a look at their collective line on the North American Free Trade Agreement – NAFTA.
Negotiated by Mr Clinton in 1993, NAFTA remains one of the few enduring legacies of the charming [...]

Things can only get better…no wonder more old Prezza tried to eat himself to death!

Here’s a fact: inequalities in income under this government have got worse, both before and after tax. To put matters more brutally: the rich have got richer under Labour – relatively, while the poor have got poorer. And after the abolition of the 10p tax bands, things will get worse.
Delve into the more arcane recesses [...]

Pass the sick bag – too much info from Johnny Prezza…

Only two people hit me in my 14 years as an MP. One was Anne Widdecombe and the other, John Prescott – I’ll leave you to judge which was scarier.
Prezza whacked me while I was waiting for a cup of tea and sticky bun in the Members’ Tea Room queue.  The Big Man was irked [...]

When a disability isn’t a disability

Do you remember when both Hague and IDS were said to suffer at the polls due to the perception people had of them because they were bald? Can people bald people succeed in life? Do you need a good head of hair these days to be successful, and if you don’t have one, are you [...]

Why bad news on the house price slump is really good news - and why it won’t be a slump

The news that house prices have fallen by 2.5% in March was greeted almost equally with doom-laded headlines and the almost gleefully gloomy prognostications of commentators elbowing themselves onto the airwaves. Our obsession with house prices is, though, one of the root causes of our structural economic weakness.
First, the good news: house prices in the [...]

Will any MP fight back?

There I was standing in the queue at the Post Office on a Saturday. Doing my best to support the main branch, though given the queue and only three counter positions being manned I started to question why I bothered.
There in front on me were three ladies of a certain age. Oh well, OK, they [...]

Ethical foreign policy and that damn torch!

Ethical foreign policy and that damn torch!
The desperate spectacle of the Olympic torch being paraded in a scrum of police and track-suited Chinese security thugs through closed-off London streets did not reflect well on anyone – least of all our prime minister, who was pictured cowering outside No 10 behind said Chinese thugs.
It is, [...]