Being Smart about spying on the community
Holiday over for another year...***Those CCTV mobile spy vans may be Smart cars, but you have to question whether any of it has rubbed off on those responsible for them.I have kept away from the rows...
View ArticleNever go out to lunch
Never go out to lunch - it should be tattoo'd on the eyelids of every reporter. That's the hour when stories have a nasty habit of breaking.Yesterday your scribe broke with tradition, and went to lunch...
View ArticleA question of Leadership
It was Trafalgar Day yesterday, the 205th anniversary of how the small English navy destroyed the French, but lost their Admiral, Lord Horatio Nelson, in the process.Last night, out of the jaws of...
View ArticleLabour might have won in Dover, but the national picture still looks grim
9% swing to Labour is pretty impressive. Extremely positive assessment for the new leadership and the party locally. Dover is, politically, quite capricious and volatile – the Parliament seat tends to...
View ArticlePredictions for 2011
Well, it is a new year and numerous political possibilities for 2011; due to the deficit reduction plan starting within months we know this year is going to be tough. Both economic and political. The...
View ArticleCheque out the banking climbdown!
Three cheers for the Treasury select committee! It’s not often we can applaud politicians but they have got it spot on for censuring the discredited UK Payments Council over its appalling handling of...
View ArticleRed card for blame game
“I would like to pay tribute to the referee in today’s game. He has a really difficult job and has to make snap decisions without the benefit of a television replay.It is only human to make the...
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