It was inevitable that Tony Blair would win the vote on top-up fees, as he did yesterday, albeit by only four votes. He simply pulled his usual trick of turning what should have been a vote on a question of principle and practicality into a test of his authority. Instead of letting MPS vote on [...]
Last night we took my dad out for a birthday tea, to La Lanterna in Edinburgh. It was a nice family-run restaurant with fairly traditional Italian cooking – except no pizza, which struck me as unusual. But the ice cream with hot chocolate sauce was tasty. Not looking forward to this forecast cold snap that [...]
I had a fairly subdued Hogmanay, which turned out to have been a good idea, as it meant I didn’t end up trudging round Edinburgh wondering what had happened to the fireworks! Instead I had a pleasant evening drinking champagne and watching increasingly desperate TV presenters perched in Princes Street Gardens, gesturing to a couple [...]