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Down at the School Gates

Down at the school gates they think I am mad. Have I turned vegan, dyed my hair purple or run off with the Games teacher. No, I have decided to try and become an MP.



Denis Envy

The selection of women political candidates is mired in party politics whereas it should be a debate on the practicalities facing multi-tasking women in Britain today.



Don’t listen to the noise

What is wrong with us? Faced with economic oblivion, we content ourselves with a puerile debate about who knew about Damien’s emails. Do we really care? Listen to your head or listen to your heart but don’t listen to the noise.



Grey Matter

A small matter occurred to me during a recent speech at the London Stock Exchange: in fact it was a grey matter.
Both leading ladies at the event; Clara Furse, the chief executive of the LSE and Jill Kirby of the Centre for Policy Studies, had remarkable visual impact because of their unadorned grey hair. That [...]



Blogs are now the lingua franca of the media world. My own deals with the communications issues of the day that interest me. My broadcast career has lent me an abiding interest in politics, health & wellbeing as well as education and family matters. However, I will write on a wider range of issues as I believe that it all comes down to one thing – relationships. Whether they are micro or macro, relationships are the fundamental framework for the way that we live our lives and, for my purposes, inform the way that we communicate with each other.

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