Thatcher at Chequers 1993 (BBC Radio 4, via Flickr) Margaret Thatcher is a frail old woman and it seems fairly likely that she’ll die quite soon. I couldn’t really care less whether she does or not, but I’m beginning to dread the day she finally packs her handbag for the last time and shuffles off. Perhaps […]
If Louise Mensch can’t have it all, what chance do the rest of us have?
Louise Mensch Tory MP for Corby, Louise Mensch is beautiful, wealthy and successful. She has three kids, a husband and several best selling novels. She also, whatever you think of her politics, was carving out an impressive place for herself at the Palace of Westminster. Until yesterday that is, when she announced she was packing […]
Could you leave your child in the pub?
Of course you could. Just like David Cameron did. Settle down, I’m not suggesting that he and Sam, or anyone else, would set forth thinking “I don’t give a fig about my kids, I’ll just leave them lying about like dropped gloves”. That would be ridiculous. And, obviously, there are some bang-to-rights cases of […]
Tax breaks for cleaners – a sweeping improvement
At last, a very tidy idea from a government. Tax breaks for cleaners. David Cameron has been in Stockholm getting pally with the Swedish PM and learning how they do things there. Apparently, as well as saunas and pickled fish (insert other stereotypes) they have a system that gives households cut-price domestic help. The point of this […]
Tunisia: things I learned there
A life of interesting times is, apparently, a curse. Chinese probably. I suppose if things are interesting all the time, they might become a little wearing. However, I just spent an interesting couple of days in Tunisia and it was fascinating. Anymore, though might have become somewhat trying. I met some marvellous people and I […]