Herald column 7th September 2017 7th September 2017 Parliament returns this week after the summer recess and hopefully that marks the end of the ‘Silly Season’ as well. Clearly I didn’t missing anything when I... Articles
Herald column – August 24th 2017 24th August 2017 Earlier this month I went to see Dunkirk, a fantastic film giving a new perspective on those 9 days back in 1940 when with the help of 39 British destroyers, a... Articles
Herald Column August 17th 2017 17th August 2017 I have now become an award winning columnist. Not for what is produced by my pen alas but rather what is produced from my garden. After years of handing out the... Articles
Herald Column August 10th 2017 10th August 2017 Rain may have almost stopped play last week but it certainly did not dull spirits. I arrived at the National Playday event on Monks Rec in Lancing last week... Articles
Herald column August 3rd 2017 3rd August 2017 Just before Parliament broke for the summer recess I attended an interesting presentation by representatives from the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise... Articles
Herald Column July 27th 2017 27th July 2017 Last week Parliament broke for the summer recess but it turned out to be one of the busiest weeks of the summer. The main news of course was the long awaited... Articles
Herald column July 13th 2017 13th July 2017 Last week I invited the General Secretary of the rail union RMT to the Commons to discuss the latest condition of industrial strife in the Southern region with... Articles
Brexit can make it safer and easier for refugee children to rejoin their families 11th July 2017 I recently visited Greece to meet children who, having fled bombs and bullets, had put themselves in the hands of smugglers to make a dangerous crossing into... Articles
Herald Column July 6th 2017 6th July 2017 Last week the new agreement between the Government and the DUP was put to its first test with the vote on the Queen’s Speech, the Government’s programme for the... Articles