Monthly Archives: March 2011

  Earlier this week we had Benny Pieser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) addressing a seminar here in Brux.  The GWPF is the think-tank set up by Nigel (Lord) Lawson (find it at http://www.thegwpf.org).  GWPF publishes information and … Continue reading →

Greenpeace and other NGOs have a new bee in their bonnets.  They are mounting a massive and very expensive and professional propaganda campaign against the extraction of oil from Tar Sands.  Outside the European parliament in Brussels, they have a … Continue reading →

  As I love to say, I used to have a real job for thirty years — then I became a politician!  It was a varied career, and a high point was the very happy period, four years or so, … Continue reading →

If you blog, as I do, you’re bound to get a few critical comments, and I welcome them.  But I do wish that the critics would actually read what I said, and comment on that, rather than tearing apart what … Continue reading →

On March 27th I was privileged to take part in the sponsored walk in Kettering for the breast cancer charity Crazy Hats.  Hundreds walked around Wicksteed Park in Kettering to raise money for this Northamptonshire charity.  I was able to … Continue reading →

I blogged on March 21st about the Climate Conference in Saint Ives, Cambs, organised by Philip Foster. The Rev. Foster has had a correspondence with Chris Huhne, and I should like to share it with you (abbreviated so as not … Continue reading →

  You can’t be too careful.  Yesterday (Friday March 25th) I fell for a scam.  A deception.  I was invited to attend a Freedom Association (TFA) fund-raising event at Champagne Charlie’s in Villiers Street.  It was to be a sort … Continue reading →

  Back in the early 2000’s, the then Labour government decided it had to do something about teenage pregnancy in the UK — and with good reason.  For comparison, the rate per thousand of Under-16 pregnancies in the UK was running … Continue reading →

You won’t often find me on the same team as Zac Goldsmith MP and Mark Seddon (former Editor of Tribune), but I am this time.  I’m asking you to sign the People’s Pledge (www.peoplespledge.org), a new initiative launched by (amongst … Continue reading →

…or to adapt the old proverb, beware of governments bearing subsidies.  I’ve just received a sad letter from an East Midlands company, inexplicably sent to an Eastern Region MEP, who has kindly forwarded it to me.  I don’t have the company’s … Continue reading →

On March 11th, I wrote glowingly about Matt Ridley’s book “The Rational Optimist”.  But I admitted that in my enthusiasm I’d put pen to paper before I’d finished the book.  I said I was looking forward to his chapter on … Continue reading →

I blogged earlier about the Saint Ives Climate Conference last Saturday.  One of the speakers was Fay Tuncay of http://www.repealtheact.co.uk. The Climate Change Act 2008 was perhaps the most expensive piece of legislation ever passed by a British government.  Virtually … Continue reading →

(Answers below) Climate Charge?  Who is paying?  And for what?  This was the title of a Conference organised by that indefatigable climate campaigner the Revd Philip Foster, in the Churchill Barn at St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, on Saturday March 19th.  I … Continue reading →

You can buy a nice house on elevated ground, and live there happily for years, congratulating yourself that you’re a long way from a flood plain.  Then you realise with horror that elevated ground is just what the money-grubbing, subsidy-sucking … Continue reading →

“It would be madness to abandon our nuclear programme”, says Boris Johnson.  And despite the media hysteria going on at the moment, he’s right.  Russia has its hand on the gas taps.  There is chaos sweeping the Middle East and … Continue reading →