Elections
Runners and riders
Runners and riders is a phrase much loved by the other place, you know, the one founded by Fatty Fawkes. In this case there is some justification for its use as we delve into the [more…]
Ed Miliband
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Seventeen
Monday Good morning, my friends. Well, at least it’s not raining this morning. That makes a change, but I bet that after all the rain so far this year, there will still be a water [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Fourteen
Monday Good morning, my friends. Today is a bit different, it is foggy! I do not think I have reported it being foggy in London since I started writing this diary, but it is not [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Seven
Monday Good morning my friends, dry but very chilly this morning when I popped out. The story doing the rounds here in Number 10 is that the Ginger Growler is on manoeuvres to challenge Legohead [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Six
Monday Good morning my friends, a horrible grey and wet morning today. It makes a change not to be reporting Legohead’s problems this morning but instead taking about the BBC. It is rudderless this morning, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Four
Monday Good morning, my friends. Lovely and sunny this morning but cold again. So, they have recaptured the escaped Epping sex criminal. I feel a little sorry for him as more of the story emerges. [more…]
Elections
Waking Ned?
The commentariat believe that the political tectonic plates are moving. Certainly, Sir Keir Starmer seems beleaguered, unhappy and so far away from control that historians will marvel that the largest parliamentary majority in Labour history [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety
Monday Good morning, all my lovely readers. I wasn’t looking forward to waking up to another wet morning, but the forecasters seem to have got it wrong again, as when I trotted down the garden [more…]
Economics
The Case For SMR Hesitancy
As Energy Secretary Ed Milliband’s Net Zero cultural revolution gathers pace, this week he announced a nuclear renaissance. A new £14bn reactor is planned for Sizewell. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are being championed through a [more…]