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I was told earlier today by my grandmother's care home that she passed away at 6.15 this morning. It's a strange phone call to get: One that leaves you with…
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I've been taking a party political sabbatical since March 2017, when I resigned my Conservative Party membership out of concerns which had broadened out to be largely true. As I…
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Dominic Cummings is often credited as being an excellent tactician when it comes to delivering campaigns. He did, after all, deliver a near-impossible victory for Leave. We can speculate endlessly…
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For the past couple of months, I've been in what can be described as a version of Hell: Trying to convince an elderly relative, my grandmother, that she needed to…
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Today marks my last day as Trustee for Online Communications for First Steps ED, the East Midlands' only – and expanding – eating disorders charity. My resignation becomes effective at the…
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I never thought that I'd right this blog post: I've been constantly calling for a rethink on Brexit for a succession of years. The principal reason for this being is…
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“The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855. - George Osborne “Before I…
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“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.”…
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Those of us who are either old enough to remember John Major's passage of the Maastricht Treaty through an increasingly Eurosceptic Tory-majority Parliament (not me), or are obsessive enough about…
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Boris Johnson is a man who is well-known for a plethora of at the very least what can be described as “ignorant” remarks. These include – but are not limited…
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