Jun
29
Disillusioned young people
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This weekend we spent some time in Lytham and St Annes. It was a really good day out and coincided with a carnival in the town. One key feature of the carnival was drinking. It was striking just how many people were having a drink; from women pushing buggies to teenagers. Many were drinking lagers [...]
Jun
24
Investment v Cuts has never worked
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For weeks now it’s looked like the next election will be fought on familiar lines: Labour investment versus Tory cuts. Today David Cameron did a pretty good job of chipping away at Gordon Brown‘s dividing line. That’s no bad thing for the Labour Party. Gordon Brown may want to fight the next election on the [...]
Jun
22
Love tennis, hate Wimbledon
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I love tennis but hate Wimbledon. That’s not quite fair on Wimbledon. If it wasn’t for that tournament, I wouldn’t like tennis. Huddled over Radio 5 (before it was also ‘live’) in 1991 with a supplement from a Sunday newspaper, I followed the tournament avidly (though could not complete the whole draw without teletext or [...]