Articles tagged EDP Diary:
EDP Diary: Phones, Stolen Cars & the End of Blair
- 7 May 2007
There seems to be a new law invented specifically for me. It’s my personal equivalent of the Law of Sod. It goes something like this. “As soon as shaving cream is applied to thy face or thee steppeth into the shower, thy mobile phone shall ring.” I can have 24 hours of blissfu...
EDP Diary: How to annoy your Neighbours
- 27 Apr 2007
Political campaigning techniques are undergoing a revolution. You’ll still be getting leaflets through your door during the local election campaign, but all the political parties are now using more modern means of political communication to engage with voters. South Norfolk Co...
EDP Diary: Be Nice to Canvassers
- 31 Mar 2007
The chances are that at some point over the next five weeks you will hear a knock on your door from a representative of one of the political parties. It’s local election time! Before you let out a volley of abuse at your doorstep canvasser just spare a thought for them. ...
EDP Diary: Margaret Beckett, Trident & Languages
- 15 Mar 2007
The men who spent 18 years in prison for the murder of newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater, but were later cleared of, have been told that they will have to pay back 25% of their compensation money to cover the cost of their "board and lodging" while in prison. Surely to God if the...
EDP Diary: Visiting my Favourite City
- 3 Mar 2007
I have spent the last week in my favourite city in the world – Washington DC. It’s a city with a buzz, a mecca for those of us who love to obsess about politics. And it’s a city full of culture, history and entertainment. The fact that it’s an appallingly run city and a v...
EDP Diary: Philanthropy and Theft
- 15 Feb 2007
Defections from one political party to another always spark interest in the media, so the revelation that the Conservatives have been courting various LibDem MPs generated a considerable number of column inches. It’s also produced some predictable splutterings from local Norfo...
EDP Diary: Unfit to be President?
- 7 Feb 2007
Ten days ago the LibDems said all British troops should be out of Iraq by the end of October. It got them a few headlines and Ming Campbell attacked Tony Blair in Prime Minister’s Question Time. To me, it was the very worst kind of political headline grabbing stunt. US Preside...
EDP Diary: Ever Considered Being a Candidate?
- 19 Jan 2007
There’s nothing like a bit of bad whether to get the British quaking in their boots. The roads become gridlocked, people cower in their houses and absentee rates at work rocket. My experience on “Windy Thursday” was somewhat more irritating. I got a parking ticket. Why? Becaus...
EDP Diary: Victim of Crime
- 30 Nov 2006
This week my workplace in London’s Bloomsbury has been the victim of crime on three occasions. On Sunday a burglar broke into our offices before being frightened off by the alarm, on Monday a bike was stolen from outside our offices and on Tuesday five cars were broken into i...
EDP Diary: Jon Snow, Me and our Ties
- 17 Nov 2006
Anyone who knows David Prior will testify to the decency of the man. His former constituents in North Norfolk and the staff at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital will have been shocked at his very public arrest this week. But let us remember that arrest does not imp...