No, seriously, you’ll love this one – they’re abolishing Parliament! I mean really you can see their point, it must be very frustrating putting in all that work on writing Bills when there’s no guarantee that those pesky MPs will pass them. So Jim Murphy, Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office, has introduced a cracking [...]
Sunday morning’s plan was an early start, a quick whizz around Amsterdam zoo and then a madcap hunt for a pub showing the first F1 Grand Prix of the season. Things started well and we had finished breakfast and got to the tram stop by 9am – impressive, I felt. The zoo is about a [...]
First impressions of Amsterdam were that it was: a) cold b) full of canals c) very pretty, and d) populated almost entirely by ninja cyclists who constantly appeared out of nowhere just as I was about to cross a cycle lane. We got the train in from Schipol airport, providing my first experience of Holland’s [...]