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  • Unbeaten in 2010
    WOKE UP TO ANOTHER SNOWY SCENE. Every since the Copenhagen climate change conference, it seems to have snowed! No snuggling in front of the TV today, though, there was work...
  • Hello 2010
    Happy New Year! Woke up to a snowy scene - an icing sugar dusting made for a magical world, sparkling in the winter sun. So jumpers, scarf and boots on...
  • Campus capers
    ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, NEW STUDENTS will be heading off to universities and colleges - excitement flavoured with a touch of trepidation. No more parents telling me to get out...
  • Top Marks for the A Team
    WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS PASSED their A levels! For me, it was a delight to see happiness and joy replacing worry and anxiety on faces of young people...
  • Lording it over the NHS
    The Tory health team are getting into ever deeper water over their links with private health, aren’t they? First, it was hapless Hannan and his comments that the...
  • Health of nations
    SO TORY MEP, DANIEL HANNAN, RECKONS THAT THE NHS is a 60-year-mistake, does he? The comment, made in the increasing poisonous debate on Obama's plans to reform American healthcare, swiftly...
  • We're all goiing on a summer holiday
    THE OTHER DAY AS I WAS GOING INTO PARLIAMENT, the police doing the security check mentioned that they had never known such a busy recess, with so many MPs still...
  • Whoops Apocalypse
    I'VE BEEN POPPING INTO PARLIAMENT during the first few weeks of the recess to interview applicants for a job vacancy in my Westminster office and one in the Immingham office....
  • Going back to my roots
    GARDENING AS AN MP. With free time at a premium coupled with constant flitting between Cleethorpes and London means plants have to be left to fend for themselves much of...
  • Hangin on the Telephone
    AT LAST, I'VE GOT A NEW MOBILE - an all-singing, all-dancing, state-of-the-art, do-everything beastie. I confess that it was long overdue. My trusty old mobile - a black Motorola Razr...
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