Monthly Archives: June 2008

>No, I haven’t been to Henley – a bit too far away when your daughter doesn’t let you stay away overnight yet, but the feedback I’ve had from people who have has been very positive. Even grumpy people who never … Continue reading →

>My tribute blog doesn’t accept abusive posts, but, boy, can it give them out Thing is, (and please don’t let him hear I’ve said this), but he’s absolutely right. In Scotland you can marry at 16, but to have to … Continue reading →

>I’ve had a bit of a catastrophic e-mail failure. For some reason the e-mail server I have been using is allowing me to send, but not receive, messages. Therefore I’ve had to spend hours on end configuring all my settings … Continue reading →

>There hardly seems to be a week go by at the moment without the awful news that children have been killed in some horrific way at the hands of a parent, usually their father, on a contact visit. I know … Continue reading →

>I was absolutely delighted to see that Bishop Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire, is going to be visiting Scotland in August to preach at St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow. Bishop Robinson is the only Bishop not to have … Continue reading →

>Before we all get swept away on a tide of hysteria about what a saviour of civil liberties David Davis is, we maybe want to take a long, hard look at his record. Here is a man who quite happily … Continue reading →

>Tonight’s vote, won by the Government on the back of the support of Anne Widdicombe and the DUP, is another much more important travesty. It was rightly described by SDLP MP Mark Burdan as a humiliating victory. I have to … Continue reading →

>To choose a mediocre man over a brilliant woman once was bad enough, as Simon Ambrose won over Kristina Grimes last year, but two years in a row smacks of vile misogyny. Claire Young seems to have missed out tonight … Continue reading →