Covid Continued 31st December 2020 My staff are off this week, so I have been responding to a light dusting of emails myself each day to prevent a massive backlog. This morning was a classic. The... Articles
Trade Deal 29th December 2020 Reading any international legal agreement is a bit like banging your head against a brick wall, especially the case with any EU Agreement. I do not know how... Articles
Christmas 2020 21st December 2020 What a horrible way for us to go into Christmas – the news that a new variant of the wretched coronavirus is 70% more transmissible, necessitating the urgent... Articles
No Deal 11th December 2020 I have long been of the view that a trade deal between the UK and the EU would be agreed at five to midnight. We are now at 11.30pm and the chances of a deal... Articles
Tier 2 27th November 2020 So, we are in Tier 2. It was not what I wanted but given that only Cornwall and the Isle of Wight are in Tier 1, I will reluctantly accept it and vote for it... Articles
Vaccine 19th November 2020 The good news is we are now halfway through this national lockdown. I hope that when we reach December 2nd, we can revert to tier one level of restrictions here... Articles
President-Elect Biden 10th November 2020 Global politics were far from my mind in 1976 when Jimmy Carter became President of the USA and, what could then legitimately be called, the leader of the free... Articles
We might not be in the same boat, but we are all in the same storm 3rd November 2020 I came across a phrase yesterday, which I rather liked: We might not be in the same boat, but we are all in the same storm. We are not all in the same boat... Articles
Half Term Free School Meals 25th October 2020 I freely admit that the government have made a Horlicks over the handling of the debate last week over free school meals, following which all Conservative MPs... Local News