It's a slightly odd situation where the results of local elections and European's were so spread apart. Locally in my ward the Lib Dems held on while a resurgent Tory party chipped away at the incumbents lead. Overall the council was no change from the fairly safe Conservative council you …

A few weeks ago I contacted all my MEPs to request the last years worth of expenses claims they had made. Only the Lib Dems actually provided the information requested (although being MEP's in condensed summary form, they have an even laxer expenses than Westminster). The one Labour MEP was …

Just because I'm the other side of the world on holiday doesn't mean I haven't had an eye on what's going on back home. The papers in Oz have also had the global financial crisis headlining as the great and the good gathered in London. With all this talk of …

I went to an interesting talk last night hosted by the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research. It was given by local professor Dr David MacKay promoting his new book "Sustainable Energy: without the hot air". Although you can buy a copy you can download the whole thing in …

The economy has been very much at the top of the news agenda (modulo dancing hysteria). I've recently added TV superstar Robert Peston to my feeds and I do find his articles very enlightening.

There seems to be a growing furor over the banks reluctance to start lending again. What …