Download a PDF here: austeritynotnec When presenting the Comprehensive Spending Review George Osborne said the unprecedented cuts were necessary because…
A case of mistaken identity
A letter to the Swindon Advertiser Thank goodness Mr T.Reynolds is not a policeman. I could have ended up in…
Simon Hughes – don’t renege on you commitment on security of tenure
Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes is facing both ways at once; the ‘friendly critic’ of the Lib Dem coalition.…
Great Western Hospital – a new retail experience?
I recently attended the first meeting of the Board of the Great Western Foundation Trust hospital open to the public.…
Justin just doesn’t add up
This is a letter published in the Swindon Advertiser If Justin Tomlinson wants people to believe him, he’ll have to…
“Regeneration” Cavendish Square style
The picture above (double-click to enlarge it) is of Cavendish Square on the Parks estate in Swindon. You could be…
We need job creation, not job destruction
This is a letter to the Swindon Advertiser. Ian Duncan Smith, echoing Norman Tebbitt’s famous injunction for the unemployed to…
Lawful Industrial Action Bill falls: Labour leaders show their contempt for the right of workers to strike
For all the talk, in some quarters, of New Labour leading the opposition to the Tories, yesterday they failed miserably…
Israeli cabinet agrees Bill which imposes a loyalty oath on any future Palestinian citizens
Israel cannot be both a “Jewish state” and a democratic one The Israeli Cabinet has agreed a Bill requiring new…
What’s happening with the civil service compensation scheme?
The announcement by Francis Maude that 5 of the civil service unions had reached an agreement to changes to the…
Martin Wicks 