It was another of those invitations that you tend not to refuse, a charity evening for the Macmillan Cancer Care charity, held in the Abbey Gardens at Westminster. Naturally, a number of Parliamentarians were there, taking the opportunity to enjoy some fine hospitality, although it wasn't just about the wine and canapes. No, we were there for serious business. Every year, there is a tug of war 
Bit frustrated. Put questions into council although they came a way down the pecking order so no chance to ask supplementaries. they were on child protection with a second set on domestic violence. Reason for these.... I am troubled by the news coming out of some parts of the UK where we are seemingly having a repeat of the Climbie situation. no child should have to tolerate this. as a society w e need to look after the most vulnerable. Council meeting started at 6pm. It ended at 1045pm. After a day at work from 8 til 4pm I am ...
It's hard to believe, but Ed Balls was once credited with being a champion of 'new localism' within this Labour Government. This was what Mr Balls said back in 2002, before he was elected an MP, and was Gordon Brown's right-hand at the Treasury: In today's complex world, it is simply not possible to run economic [...]
Monday brought some good news following on from the Wastes Management review carried out earlier this year. The officers concerned have worked so enthusiastically on ways to implement the recommendations that the action plan is ready ahead of schedule so the recommendations will begin to be implemented sooner than we'd thought. Watch this space! It seems also that the plans for Billingham Town
Where else can you deliver while watching falcons?
That was the theme of last week's column for the Ham & High: I am sick of the good guys being the fall guys. Let me elucidate. At its most simple it's that honest, good citizens (the good guys) who transgress, for let's say, staying on a parking meter or pay and display a few minutes over time get a ticket - and pay it. The bad guys - who perhaps don't bother to find a meter and park illegally and get a ticket or are involved in a traffic incident or so on - by contrast frequently don't pay. ...
The Council is currently consulting on two proposed conservation areas in the Selly Oak Ward - Selly Park (the section of Selly Park between Pershore Road, Bournbrook Road and Selly Park Road) and Selly Park (Avenues) (First to Fourth Avenues, Sir Johns Road and the section of Pershore Road between them). Local residents should have received details of the proposals and what it would mean, but
Recently, I started a video collection. Owing to my current drive to Buy Lots of Self-indulgent Crap, I frequent the charity shops of Haringey quite a lot, and on my first video purchase venture I secured Fight Club, Abigail's Party, Midnight Cowboy and Alfie, three of which I had never seen, for the princely sum of £4. I [...]
Gah, sometimes you can try to be too clever. Bottom link is to Andrew's fix of the crossposter code, which theoretically auto-selects a userpic, gets the timestamp right and removes the auto formatting. Except that having done so, it's not posted at all today. So either del.icio.us is playing up or I've messed my code. Anyone want to lay odds? Apologies for the messy appearance, this is a copy/paste from my profile there. Still, it works. Taxing times for Hungary's porn inspectors | The Register edit / delete A Hungarian porn producer has filed his tax forms, and claimed scene ...
Enjoy 'The Slightly Late Edition' over at the Wardman Wire.
Paul Walter muses brilliantly on the reasons why Gordon brown settles on the number 42 for the number of days detention he wants. Personally I think it is because Gordon Brown loves the 1980's legends Level 42. I'm not sure what his favourite single is. I suspect it's their 1983 hit 'The Chinese Way'. After all, the Chinese like to keep people locked up without trial too. Although, I suspect give the latest poll ratings Gordon's favourite single will be the 1987 single 'It's Over'.
Earlier today the Government announced that four schools in Haringey face closure. Here's what my press release said:Lynne Featherstone, commenting on the Government's announcement that four schools in Haringey have been given a warning notices to improve exam performance or face closure said: "We must challenge underperformance in our schools but threat of closure and job losses is hardly going to motivate the teachers whose help we need to drive up standards. "I have long fought for fair funding for our local schools, so the extra money is welcome. However, this announcement seems far too much stick and not enough ...
Real Clear Politics details an interesting Associated Press-Yahoo poll which shows that the argument that if Barack Obama picks Hillary Clinton as his running mate it could damage his chances of beating John McCain is a valid one. It showed 32% of independent respondents expressing a 'strong dislike' of Clinton. Unsurprisingly she is deeply unpopular with Republicans; something that could help solidify them behind a candidate their relationship is at best ambivalent with., 67% have a 'strongly unfavourable view of Clinton. However, this is 24% more than say the same about Obama which raises the possibility that without hatred of ...
I remember parking my aeroplane somewhere, but for the life of me I cannot remember where !
This week, 9th - 15th June, is Carers Week, and the title of this post is its motto. Find out more at http://www.carersweek.org/. They've produced a carer's job description which gives food for thought: Likely to be appointed at short notice, probably overnight, and will be required to fulfil some or all of the following criteria: 1. Have the ability and stamina to work continual long hours 2. Be available to work up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 3. Carry out tasks that in other environments would require at least two people 4. Be able to ...
I am fairly lucky in the mornings with the short journey I have to take. I travel five miles with virtually no deviation or turn offs until I reach my school. I travel along an A road, and there are no roundabouts to overcome. However, every day, on my way to school and my way home, I suffer along with scores of other drivers, from sitting in traffic queues caused by buses and bikes. Along the length of the A road I drive there are bus stops every few hundred metres, however, there are only about three of these bus ...
An early return from London finds me on the 7pm train out of Kings Cross. Coach F however is overheating. It is like a travelling sauna. So people are trying to avoid the coach and all the seat reservations have been moved elsewhere. Not that that has helped me. I picked up my ticket and there was no seat reservation in sight. I could have gone into coach F but the thought of a three hour sauna
Today's revelation that in the past year 3,000 more pensioners and 1,000 more children have fallen below the poverty line shows how badly Labour are letting down the people that they promised to support. Mind you, this is the party that gave pensioners an extra 75p per week a few years back, and last year suspended the winter fuel allowance, For a minister to describe the figures as disappointing, as one did on Radio 4 today, is the understatement of the year. These aren't disappointing, they're appalling. They are a national disgrace. Labours promise to halve child poverty by 2010 ...
My wife went out with a group of other young mums, five adults, five children, to a pub on the outskirts of Norwich in Costessey to a place that advertises itself as a 'Family Pub'. Perhaps trading standards should be advised ? Upon arrival, she says the start were not exactly happy to see five people with toddlers turn up. The staff let it be known through their body language that they were less than impressed, the restaurant had only two baby seats (so they claimed), and let a number of the group leave to go outside and get their ...
Which Lib Dem MPs received the most media mentions between 1st March and 31st May, 2008? To find out I trawled Lexis-Nexis's online database of all UK national newspapers (and a huge number of regional ones), feeding in the names of each of our MPs in turn, and seeing how many returns were generated. To qualify, [...] 
My experience of betting on politics so far has been mixed. Sometimes, I've lost a little bit of money. On one or two occasions, I've lost a hundred quid or two. Very rarely have I won. My problem's been betting on elections which I'm committed to and where the emotional power of the campaign has been much more influential in my decisions than any inside knowledge I actually had... Of course we all know people who've made a decent - or massive - amount by predicting which by-elections the Lib Dems were going to win. I've not done that yet ...
Amnesty Internationals Director Kate Allen has written to Labour backbenchers urging them not to cave-in to government pressure to support plans to extend the detention without charge limit to 42 days. She described the vote tomorrow as a 'watershed moment for human rights in the UK'. She writes; 'I urge you to stand in support of principles that lie at the heart of our society, principles such as justice and liberty. The alternative is to succumb to the climate of fear that terrorists seek to breed among us. I urge you to oppose any further extension of pre-charge detention.' She ...
No doubt there'll be lots of Labour MPs muttering something about "none of my constituents lobbied me over 42 days" so I set about today just to write a quick note to my NuLabour MP Andrew Smith to ensure that he cannot in all honesty say that: Jock Coats OXFORD OX3 Email: jock_nospam@jockcoats.org.uk Tuesday 10 June 2008 Dear Andrew, Whilst I expect it will actually make precious little difference - shoring up a failing Labour leadership is more important than long fought for civil liberties after all - but in case you currently find yourself in the unlikely position of ...
The link is to the details of the government's announcement of the National Challenge programme. This includes the following: As well as Academies, where a school is completely unable to raise their exam results, the Government will encourage local authorities to close the school and replace it with a National Challenge Trust, providing that they forge new improvement partnerships led by a
I'm delighted that the lack of a school "lollipop" person on the very busy Hawkhill, for pupils of Blackness Primary School, has now been resolved and as of this week a patroller is on duty. See earlier story about this by clicking on the link above. I was contacted by worried parents about the lack of a patroller due to illness of the post holder. Hawkhill is an extremely busy road at the best of times, but with the current roadworks on Perth Road, traffic is being diverted onto Hawkhill, including the bus services, and both they and I were ...
I was up bright and early this morning to head for Henley. Despite a few teething difficulties finding my way out of London, I made good time and was soon delivering in Thame as part of an all-star cast, including our President, Simon Hughes. Thame itself is quite pretty, although it is an area of Oxfordshire I don't know well. Back in the HQ, I joined in with the clerical work that needs doing. Even by the normal standards of our well-oiled by-election machine, things appear to be very well organised and there is a good number of enthusiastic volunteers ...
A couple of weeks ago I was in Norwich for the eVoice International Political Forum on eDemocracy. eVoice is a European project that was jointly run by a number of local authorities around the North Sea, in Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and, of course, Norfolk County Council. If you really want to, you can view a video of my talk entitled 'eParticipation: a councillor's tale',...
{Ming Campbell} Sir Menzies Campbell has asked the Scottish Government for a second time for their views on the re-introduction of a passenger railway line after the Minister failed to respond to Sir Menzies' earlier inquiry. Sir Menzies, who has been campaigning for the re-introduction of the passenger rail link for the Levenmouth area, had written to the Minister for Transport Stewart Stevenson back in April asking what plans, if any, the Government had for the railway's re-introduction. The reply that was received recently came from the Chief Executive of Transport Scotland, which noted the current position with the SEStran ...
S104 has an experiment asking us to measure the amount of fungus in the air using a sealed container of tomato soup. This is not for the faint hearted. The sheep can read, and are disappointed. I had an irregular container. I measured its volume by filling it with water and pouring it into a measuring jug. I did the same with the tomato soup can and subtracted the one from the other to find the volume of air. Out of curiosity I weighed the full measuring jug (capacity 500ml). It weighed 490 grams, so either the scales are out, ...
David Cornock draws our attention to this piece in today's Daily Telegraph: After the candidacy of Miss Great Britain, Gemma Garrett, in Crewe and Nantwich, there'll be a double dose of glamour at the Henley by-election. The new Miss Great Britain Party is taking the bizarre step of fielding two beauty queens as rival candidates: a blonde, Amanda Harrington, and a brunette, Louise Cole. "Our attractive candidates will stand out in a contest where every one of the major parties has chosen a man," opines party leader Robert de Keyser. If ex-Henley MPs Michael Heseltine and Boris Johnson are anything ...
From the BBC: The number of children living in poverty has risen for a second year, a government report says. The government called the rise in poverty levels "disappointing" and the increase may threaten its target of halving child poverty by 2010. The number of children living in poverty rose by 100,000 in 2006-2007 to 2.9 million before [...]
Despairing of finding a logical reason for this detention with no charge for 42 days malarkey (well, a logical reason other than 'Gordon wants it') I went to the ever-reliable (except when it's not) Wikipedia and it all became clear: 42 is the obvious number to choose! In Mathematics it's the second sphenic number to be bracketed by twin primes. In Science, it's the atomic number of molybdenum.
Things have suddenly got very interesting in the Welsh Assembly. Tomorrow I am bringing forward private member's legislation which, if passed would give us the power to change the way we elect local Councillors. My favoured system is the single transferable vote method of election but that is a debate for another time. Tomorrow I am just seeking to get the powers for a future measure on this issue. I had a meeting with the Electoral Reform Society yesterday to discuss tactics and we are lobbying members in ernest. So far it is likely that the Conservative Group will abstain ...
Considering I've been asking a lot of questions lately around who's great idea it was to launch road pricing as 'official' policy (then, ironically, completely fail to get it mentioned anywhere except on the BBC News website), and why the Road Pricing's objectives seemed to clash with our civil liberties objectives and our Environmental objectives and so on, then the news that Director of Policy and Communications, Jon Oates, is 'leaving' (no specific mention of who's idea it was or why) throws up some interesting questions. Does anyone know exactly Jon was doing for the party?
Europe is a poisonous issue in British politics. The debate touches some of the most visceral points in the British body politic. In the end the debate about British membership of the European Union is, at its most basic level, a debate about identity. Those who are most opposed to the EU regard it as a threat to the very idea of Britain and to British identity. Those most in favour sometimes support the EU for precisely the same reasons. The debate is conducted through megaphones, with both sides predicting apocalypse should the other side prevail. The debate has been ... 
I would encourage as many residents Twerton to attend this meeting to ensure that our voices are heard. Again our thanks go out to Henry Brown who has put in a great deal of effort to ensure that we have this Public discussion Forum. The Better Bath Forum are holding their third meeting on 18th June at St Michael's Church, Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LJ at 18.30 and will discuss...
City MP Don Foster is pleased to announce the arrival of his new and very much improved website at http://www.donfoster.co.uk/ The website has information from Bath and Westminster, and is a lot clearer than the previous version. It also includes a section on local campaigns, so that residents can keep right up-to-date with what Don is doing in Bath. Commenting, Don said,...
City MP Don Foster is pleased to announce the arrival of his new and very much improved website at http://www.donfoster.co.uk/ The website has information from Bath and Westminster, and is a lot clearer than the previous version. It also includes a section on local campaigns, so that residents can keep right up-to-date with what Don is doing in Bath. Commenting, Don said,...
Interesting article from OpenDemocracy (hat-tip: {[info]} thehornedgod). I haven't properly digested it yet, but I think the comment that Ken made the mistake of presenting himself to voters as a safe pair of managerial hands rather than as a campaigner for their collective empowerment is spot-on, and is probably at the root of my own rather less articulate feeling that he had 'run out of steam', as I said to {[info]} djm4 and {[info]} aegidian during the campaign. Would be interested to hear what you all think.
The Better Bath Forum are holding their third meeting on 18th June at St Michael's Church, Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LJ at 18.30 and will discuss Sustaining Bath's Economy - what needs to change? I would encourage as many residents from the South West of the City to attend this meeting to ensure that our voices are heard. Our thanks go out to Henry Brown who has put in a great deal of...
The figures have just been published.......100,000 more children living in poverty, a shocking 3.9 million. And the first increase in pensioner poverty since 1998, an additional 300,000 bringing the total to 2.5 million. Kate Green from the Child Poverty Action Group is calling for a further £3 billion to be spent on tax credits and benefits. What is disturbing is that these figures are from 2006/7, with the huge jump in the cost of living there is no doubt it will be even worse now. But these figures are not just a problem for the government, they are a problem ...
There is only one new planning application this week and a refusal notice for an MOT testing station that went to appeal. The Planning application is for the Provision of a hard standing in rear to provide off-street parking a 26 Shaws Way Twerton (this is a resubmission of a previous application) the application was first registered on 2nd June 2008 and has a decision date of 28th...
Ok - we want to bring the river back overground - it has lain underground since it was piped over 200 years ago and we want to enjoy it again... Surely that's a daft idea? It hasn't be done elsewhere, has it? and it would cost a fortune and to what benefit? Well, I think it's a superb idea - it's about restoring our proper environment. Everyone agrees that water flow is a calming influence and is a beautiful environmental feature. I have a picture here is the rive flowing down the High Street in Wells, Somerset and it is ...
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our President, Marie Burnand. Marie Burnand was a founder member of the Social Democrat Party, and happily embraced Liberal Democracy when the two parties joined. The success of Liberals and SDP together as the Liberal Democrats was due to people like Marie who were determined to ensure cohesion. She has served as Secretary and Chairman, and latterly her sterling service over the years was recognised when she was acclaimed President of the Wycombe Liberal Democrats. She stood as a candidate for local council several times, and came close to ...
Over the last few weeks there have been many hilarious stories in the press in regard to rubbish collection. Councils are desperately struggling to reduce the amount of rubbish they have to collect. We have had the two finger test, the health and safety letter and many stories of people being fined for having too full a bin. Even the local radio is talking about people stomping on...
Having a hugely geographical mind I was delighted to see that Mozilla Firefox browser has a facility, Flagfox, that shows the origination country of the server for websites. Imagine my amusement when I saw that Labour Home and Conservative Home have the US flag while Libdemblogs has the UK flag. Sums it up. Still let's hope Obama [...]
The recent London elections made it very clear that, if the Lib Dems are to avoid becoming the victims of a mighty squeeze at the next general election, we are going to have to do more to engage with disenfranchised Labour supporters, and worry less about trying to take seats off the resurgent Tories. Although [...]
The GMB trade union has started cutting its direct financial support for Labour MPs. It plans to withdraw funds from a maximum of 35 MPs and yesterday announced the first six. Probably of most interest to Liberal Democrat members and supporters is the inclusion of Durham MP Roberta Blackman-Woods on the list as she is [...]
The MEP 'Den Dover' must be a made up character from a Jilly Cooper novel, surely... Muscular Tory MEP, Den Dover, threw down his briefcase and tore off his regimental tie. His wife gasped at her husband who, despite his advanced years and his creative approach to financial matters, still managed to excite and inspire her in equal measure. Breathlessly she asked: 'Would you like a drink, darling?' 'Yes, thanks. I'm sorry Dorothea, its just this damned Parliamentary sleaze allegation business. Don't those foreigners realise that we Tories do things differently? That's the trouble with John Frenchman. He's too corrupt ...
The Scottish Parliament's website has an embarrassing typographical error (not something I'm entirely unfamiliar with myself) on its front page. It has the name of its own Presiding Speaker, Alex Fergusson MSP, spelled incorrectly. While this should cause some blushing, the omission of the second 's' is an understandable error. Less understandable though, on Alex Fergusson's own website, where his surname is spelled variously correctly and incorrectly.
Ward Meeting We had our full complement at this meeting as Colin, Richard and Robert were all able to attend. As usual we had a look at the latest planning applications for the ward and this time highlighted 'Garden land rear of 25 Park Hill Road' as a controversial application requiring de delegation (consideration by Development [...]
Extraordinary news reaches me about Tesco's behaviour. Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall submitted a resolution for debate at Tesco plc's AGM was submitted with the support of 102 shareholders (representing something like 3.7 million ordinary shares). It is a resolution that challenges what Tesco says about its poultry welfare and urges them to set new minimum standards like lower stock densities and more environmental stimuli for the birds. Unbelievably - Tesco have said that they will only take the resolution to the AGM if the person submitting the motion meets the cost of distributing the relevant papers to their shareholders. They ...
The FT today kicks apart the Tories' plans to give tax cuts to married couples: The Tories would need to increase green taxes significantly to fund the estimated £3.2bn ($6.3bn) annual cost of a transferable tax allowance for all couples that was recommended by the Conservative's policy group on the family. But the opposition party has recently attacked government plans to raise petrol duty and
The BBC story pretty much says it all: Scotland's top prosecutor has said the case has not been made for extending the length of time terror suspects can be detained without charge to 42 days.BBC Scotland has learnt that Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini gave her opinion in a letter to the Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael. She said the change from the current 28 days was not supported by 'prosecution experience to date'.
Robert Winnett at The Daily Telegraph's Three Line Whip blog gives us the low-down, and Sam Coates at The Times' Red Box blog has this to say: Jon Oates, the party's director of policy and communications, is returning to the world of lobbying, and (re-)joining Bell Pottinger. Jon has been a steadying influence on the party [...]
Another cracking Today programme this morning: Trevor Phillips on human rights ("human rights are absolute; they are the rights you cannot take away from the people you most loathe"), the courageous Debra Storr on why we shouldn't let Donald Trump dig up some of Scotland's most beautiful dunes, Tom Butler on Terry Pratchett, plus the [...]
At a conference yesterday I heard someone say 'There are many psychopaths around Exeter and we must network them together'. It took some time before I realised that he was talking about cycle paths.
After a brief hiatus, Weekly Catchup returns. Guest writers brought us: Alex Folkes on Votes at 16 John Dixon on Political Correctness Staffers at Reform urged us to seize the educational reform agenda. Loads of comments on: Our new poll on Road Pricing Charge of the Lib Dem Brigade by Paul Reynolds Trouble for the Tories in Henley by Mark Pack The regulars brought [...]
... they are left open all the time. A group of residents came to the surgery the other day to point out that they were getting no security from the alleygates at two entrances to a T shaped alley because the gates were almost always left open. Everyone understands the need to have gates open for a few minutes for deliveries etc - but no one wants them propped wide open all day long. Not only does it completly ruin the security reason why they are there, it also invites the odd bit of flytipping. Anyway yesterday some polite letters ...
Redcar and Cleveland Council's libraries are setting borrowers a summer holiday challenge: Take a snap to show the holidaymaker's most unusual spot for a read! The idea links in with The National Year of Reading's theme for June, Reading Escapes, and most of the Borough's libraries are featuring displays of books that take the reader to other countries and other worlds. At the end of the summer, the aim is to create a travelling exhibition of the most weird and wonderful photos to display in the libraries. You can hand in photos at your local library or send them by ...
Following on from yesterday's post regarding comments made by Iris Robinson MP MLA, Chair of the Northern Irish Assembly Health Committee and wife of First Minister Peter Robinson police are to investigate her comments under hate crime legislation. Andrew Muir, the vice chair of Gay and Lesbian across Down (GLAD) lodged a complaint at Bangor police station on Friday evening. This has now been
UK Armed Forces manning figures were published last week. Liberal Democrat Shadow Defence Secretary, Nick Harvey, said that they demonstrated that there was still a yawning recruitment gap in the British Army. 'The continuing decline in the number of regular Army troops should be of grave concern to the Government. 'Ministers persist in denying there is even a problem. The tail-off in recruitment and retention in the Army and the growing reliance on Commonwealth and foreign troops is a wake-up call. 'It is time for a fundamental reappraisal of the commitments we expect our troops to make and the resources ...
Cllr Christine Wakefield, the Chairman of Ashfield Labour Council Group, has joined the Liberal Democrats. This local coup follows a number of recent election successes that have led to the Liberal Democrats taking minority control of Ashfield District Council. From their news story: Cllr Wakefield said "I joined Labour because I thought they were the party that [...]
I spoke on a number of items at City Council Committees last night including: * POST OFFICE CLOSURE PROPOSALS - opposing the recommendations by Post Office Limited to close Lochee Road and Nethergate Post Offices. * FREEDOM OF THE CITY - To support this proposal to award Freedom of Dundee to Burmese Leader Aung San Suu Kyi. * ENVIRONMENT MATTERS - Regarding air quality issues. The concerns of both Friends of Magdalen Green and myself regarding events over the weekend at the Green were reported in last night's 'Evening Telegraph' - click on headline above to view article.
Well Jeff at SNP Tactical Voting kicked off the blogosphere debate of the week yesterday over Wednesday's vote in Westminster regarding detention without charge for 42 days. I see with relief that the Lord Advocate in Scotland has come out against increasing the current powers. Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini has said that the move is 'not supported by prosecution evidence'. Her views echo those
{Img_0797} Just to say a big thank you to everyone who attended the launch of the Friends of Eldon Square Gardens last Thursday. It was a great evening - we were lucky enough to have fantastic weather and very interesting speakers (including Lord Reading, descendant of Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, who's statue adornes the Gardens). As you can see from this photo, Rufus is looking so clean he's practically glowing! The best he's looked in years, I reckon. After a very successful, long-running Lib Dem campaign to get the Council to restore these Gardens, I was really chuffed ...
... There's a Pharisee on Lynne Featherstone's blog trying to tell me that secularism/atheism is a faith as it is not evidence based. Because of COURSE secularism and atheism are the same thing. Secularism doesn't INCLUDE Christianity at all! How foolish of me to think that! It would NEVER be in a Christian's interests to treat other people with love and respect and tolerance, like Jesus told them to! And of COURSE atheism is faith-based and not reason-based. I mean, it wouldn't be that the whole point of atheism is a default position of disbelief unless and until someone presents ...
Saturday: I know a SECRET! Oh yes! Daddy Alex and I have been to a SPECIAL screening of NEXT WEEK'S Doctor Who! We even met the man who is now in charge of BBC Wales and so is Grand Moff Steven's new BOSS! I'm well in there! Doctor Eleven-phant, I am telling you! Da Boss {Posted by Picasa} Anyway, what happens next week is... mumph! [R: Spoilers] If Steve Moffat's intention is to make us nostalgic for the future, he has succeeded magnificently. While being in one sense entirely predictable, this proved we were surprisingly wrong about all the details. ... | < | June 2008 | > | ||||
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