Weston’s MP John Penrose is delighted by today’s news that Birnbeck Pier’s owners will be served with an official ‘Repairs Notice’, giving them two months to put the Pier right. John’s involvement with the decaying grade 2* listed building first began when he got Heritage Minister Ed Vaizey MP to…
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Imagine a world where Eton awarded its own A-levels. No one else could take them and, if you got an A grade in, for example, chemistry, it was worth more than an A grade in the same subject from any other exam board. It would be hideously unfair. Etonians would…
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Suspending Parliament sounds terrible, right? The sort of thing that only happens in banana republics and dictatorships? Errrr not really. Most years, Parliament is suspended for several days in the Autumn, while men in tights polish everything furiously before Her Majesty arrives to give the Queen’s Speech. Plus the place…
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