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Above – From “The Man from Auntie” by Ben Elton – Mrs Thatcher’s then new slogan for her party shortly before her resignation as Prime Minister. Is history repeating itself? In 1990, Ben Elton did a stand-up routine in the dying days of Thatcher’s administration which sounds very familiar to current events. It was fromContinue reading “How many of the new ministers have you heard of before?”

…and the Prime Minister couldn’t even bring himself to tell people he was resigning. As David Baddiel noted: …noting that The Prime Minister did not say: “I am resigning” My general reaction? “I’ll be glad when you gone, you rascal, you!I’ll be glad when you gone, you rascal, you!When you gone from public life,We’ll getContinue reading ““I’ll be glad when you’re gone – you rascal you!””

Mhairi Black MP’s prophetic words came true today – a day that will go down as a day of shame and infamy in British political history Have a listen to Mhairi Black MP below: Above – hear her words From 2 mins 52 second. You can listen to her full speech here. “How close toContinue reading “The F-word – and the UK is perilously close to it.”

Transport minister Baroness Vere (who contested the Conservative candidacy against Heidi Allen for the Conservative ticket in South Cambridgeshire back in the General Election of 2015) gave evidence to the House of Lords Built Environment Committee. You can watch the evidence session on trams and light rail here – from 10:36:21 if you get lostContinue reading ““I love a tram. And light rail””

Some of you will have seen the front page of the Cambridge Independent with some alarm. As things stand, the developers won’t be able to do anything for now because they don’t have planning permission, and under the existing local plan they can only build on land allocated for development, for which we are toldContinue reading “How to scrutinise the additional 41 new sites developers have put forward for Cambridge & South Cambs”

Because Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been under growing pressure in the face of a rapidly-increasing population. And successive Health Secretaries have failed to provide the necessary resources. And we found out the hard way the consequences of this the hard way when the CV19 Pandemic hit in early 2020. In case you missed the news, theContinue reading “Ministers must take responsibility for their failures to ensure hospital beds keep up with population changes”

I returned from the consultation event from East West Rail in Cambridge earlier today. Above – me on telly! (BBC Look East (West)) earlier this evening. You can see the boards below. For more details including posting your own comments, please see https://communityhub.eastwestrail.co.uk/. Also, for the record, ***I support the re-opening of the direct railContinue reading “Is East West Rail underselling the benefits of re-opening the Oxford-Cambridge Railway?”

The rise is even greater for the City of Peterborough – designated a third generation Newtown in the 1960s, now at 215,000 Which makes both cities two of the fastest growing settlements in the country – with the economic drivers including agri-tech and manufacturing for Peterborough, and life sciences and ‘knowledge intensive’ industries in Cambridge.Continue reading “Cambridge’s population rises to above 145,000 in 2021 Census”

If you’ve not seen the display boards from the developers and their media partners, please see my earlier blogpost here where I’ve photographed and uploaded them for you. (And if you found them useful, please consider a small donation to help sustain my reporting and research) It was only covered at the very end, butContinue reading “Beehive Centre Redevelopment – first webinar highlighting making space for girls”