Most days are pretty unexceptional. Go to work, come home, have your tea. Maybe watch some telly, surf the internet or read a book, go to bed. Repeat. Today can be different. Today you can stand up for a mother and her daughter who are about to be separated, in your name, by your government.
Ten-year-old [...]
Like many people in Scotland, I’ve been moved by the story of Precious and Florence Mhango. Anne McLaughlin MSP sums it up when she says,
“Could you stand to hold your child knowing that it may be the last time and that soon you may be left with only memories and the living nightmare of not [...]
AV makes me think of pirates. I can’t help it. My brain reads the first two letters and automatically adds “-AST!” So I end up pondering not alterations to the electoral system, but eye patches and wooden legs and Johnny Depp. Ooh, Johnny Depp. Yummy…
Sorry. Politics. Right. So Nick Clegg has made The Announcement [...]