On Saturday 22nd August 2015, an aircraft crashed at Shoreham Airshow. This is my eyewitness account from the day. It was a hot, bright sunny day in summer. The wind was calm and the skies were a lovely deep blue with very few clouds, perfect flying conditions. Such good weather was the reason myself and my housemate had decided only 48 hours earlier to attend the Shoreham Airshow. There were…
Tomorrow, Britain goes to the polls. The 2015 General Election is under-way and the outcome is far from certain. … If the polls are accurate, then we are facing the likely possibility of a Hung Parliament – when no party has a majority. When this happened in the 2010 General Election, it was the first time since 1974 so it could be dismissed as a one-off. Now it could be about to become a…
A recent governement defeat reminds me of what I value in our unelected upper house. … This is an subject which I had not been planning to write about quite so soon, however I found a friend gathering opinions on Twitter in the aftermath of a government defeat on a controversial bill currently going through Parliament. … The bill in question was the ‘Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing…
