Plus: The ludicrous Evan Harris. My broken mobile. The menace of TTIP. The smears of Yvette Cooper. And: why Polly Toynbee swiftly changed the subject.
The sector is good for the economy, as well as for the soul.
“Christ our Paschal Lamb has been sacrificed, alleluia. Therefore, let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, alleluia.”
“Our Shepherd is departed, the fount of living water,/At whose passing the sun was darkened…Today the gates of death and their bars as well our Saviour has destroyed.”
“There was darkness over the earth.”
The power of the mob can overwhelm the power of authority – but the power of conscience is greater still.
“Where charity and love are, there God is.”
Plus: Contrite Soubry. Ashcroft’s Party. The Chancellor’s forecasts and the OBR’s admission. P.S: Re those Clarke memoirs, I admit that I can’t wait to read them.
Plus: Cameron is formidable. How does Boris get away with it? And: the BBC’s disgraceful sacking of Tony Blackburn as cover for its mistakes over Savile.
The co-Chairman of the Fresh Start Group says that the Government would be in a better position to conduct a renegotiation during the run-up to 2016.
They are using them as a tool for their campaign about public finances.
The Government is right to dismiss 38 Degrees’ attempt to spam it with BBC feedback, but better rules could sideline such efforts permanently.
His latest album, “EU Referendum”, apparently features a mind-bending first – a track, “Renegotiation”, that will contain nothing at all.
Of course, sexual violence can be perpetrated by people of all backgrounds but that does not mean in that specific cases, race, religion and culture are not a factor.
Plus: Loathsome Winston McKenzie. Alex Salmond, Thatcher fan. The indestructible Keith Vaz. And: my interview with Charles Moore is well worth a listen.