Conservative European Policy

I spotted this on Iain Dale’s Diary about Ken Clarke’s possible re-instatement to a Cameron cabinet:-
1. Would he sign up to Cameron’s European policy?
Interesting question, but before anyone could answer it, surely they’d have to know what Cameron’s policy on Europe was.
I asked Iain himself, and he rather unhelpfully suggested I Google for it, a […]

President of Soil Association on the 3rd World

Just doing a quick peruse of Comment is Free when I found this:-
Asked about that modern green dilemma - whether it is better to buy organic fair trade from developing countries, Monty’s reply was uncompromising and a little politically incorrect. “Maybe the third world countries also have to suffer a bit as a result of […]

Irish Friends…

Please Vote No For Me in the referendum.
(I promise I’ll have a few sessions on Guinness if you vote the right way, but don’t expect me to buy any Louis Walsh records).

NHS IT Delays

NHS IT 4 Years Late
It will be at least 2014 - four years later than planned - before a single NHS electronic patient records system is in place in England, say auditors.
What the hell? This was started in 2002. It’s going to have taken 12 years to deliver a patient records system?
But an NAO […]

Carly Fiorina for VP?

Carly to run with McCain?

McCain has said he’s not as strong on economics as he is on national security, so he needs accomplished business leaders, like Fiorina, advising him.

In case anyone reading has never heard of Carly Fiorina, she was CEO of HP for a few years. Her time there was so accomplished that […]

Something Fishy…

A whole Guardian article of about 2400 words on how the world oceans are running out of fish, lots of things about how the EU are doing things globally, and not one mention of the disastrous EU fisheries policy.

Stuart Wheeler’s Lisbon Legislation

There’s now a paypal link on stuartwheeler.co.uk, so if you want to help out, it’s much easier than it was…

Ramsay: Ban non-Seasonal Food

via the BBC:
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay says British restaurants should be fined if they serve fruit and vegetables which are not in season. He says it would cut carbon emissions as less food would be imported and also lead to improved standards of cooking.
I was considering going to one of his restaurants for a special […]

Stephen Fry on the BBC

Fry defends the BBC
“The BBC enriches the country in ways we will only discover when it has gone and it is too late to build it back up again,” the writer and comedian said.
That’s just irrational nonsense. There’s no logical reason why we couldn’t, if we so decided, re-create the BBC after we’ve got rid […]

Drugs Laws Changes

From AFP
Smith said she agreed with all 21 recommendations made by the ACMD except its recommendation that cannabis should not be upgraded.
The ACMD report is called Cannabis: Classification and Public Health (2008).  In other words, the main point of the report was to determine what classification it should be.
The whole point of classification is to […]