First, a left-wing health event. Second, immensely clever students at my old school. Third, a hustings about motorbikes, chaired by Lembit Opik.
The Conservatives are doing what is right and doing it well – winning votes is a happy by-product of that approach.
Today would have been my dad’s 65th birthday. His work reveals new wonders of the world to me even in his absence.
The current debate on a European referendum only skims the surface of the real questions of sovereignty, co-dependence and belonging.
French fries, The Times Crossword and U-turns – these are a few of my favourite things. And Ed Miliband helped remind me of that.
Clearly communicated economic policy will win us the election – the opposition spew jargon because they feel the need to hide their inadequacies.
Hopefully we are starting to put a stop to dangerous cultural and moral relativism – but how firm are we in our beliefs?
Labour doesn’t own the North – it never did – and Conservatives can win here.
We are dragged, at tea-and-crumpet-time on a December day, towards the top of the cupboard and its family compendium of battered cardboard boxes.
Harmony and the other core constituents of music have developed freely – like the values and beliefs upon which our big society has grown.
Every time something horrible happens we allow ourselves to get distracted by a witch hunt.
The closing down of an abortion debate last week is part of a disturbing trend.
As our protectors fought for us a century ago, so their descendants defend us today.
Simply demanding more students – and less money to fund them – cannot work.
Transport improvements are boosting enterprise.