Little's Log

These days elections do seen rather popular. We elect our MPs, our Councillors and soon our Police Commissioners. If Mr Clegg gets his way, ...

This time last year I set myself 3 personal goals - to lose weight (achieved, 2½ stone down), fix my teeth (achieved) and get trendy new gla...

Well, here we go again. After writing nothing for months (resolution: pay more attention to things), I thought we'd start again by looki...

Posting non-existent. OFSTED imminent. Forms to fill in etc. Back soon.

I have been quick to criticise the Prime Minister on three occassions when I felt his attitude and language at the dispatch box have not bee...

The EDP has a rather understated story that Norfolk County Council will oppose government moves to introduce an elected police commissioner ...

On my way home from work tonight I met one of Norwich Labour's hardest workers, standing on the street corner visably fuming. Little did...

Up until around 9.30pm last night I had little idea I would be spending time today with the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Educa...

It was great to see the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Education coming to the Norwich South constituency today. Even more so as ...

I have today recieved a letter from Ms Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, which in parts almost reads as quite balanced. But Ms ...

Notre Dame High School, where I work in Surrey Street, has announced that its Governing Body is consulting on conversion to Academy Status. ...

I have just caught up with a rather flat PMQs in which the most bizarre sight was that of David Cameron slapping down a backbench Tory MP, B...

The job of being Conservative Party Chairman has, traditionally, been quite a unique one in British politics. The role is both political and...

I have had a fair few comments, emails, tweets and calls from fellow NASUWT members also requesting information on the massive payout given ...

According to my Union magazine, the General Secretary of the NASUWT Christine Keates has a salary package worth touching-on £140,000 per yea...

"The Public don't like it, and I don't like it." Well, that's the usual refrain of Commons Speaker John Bercow as ...

Michael Gove is an absolute master of his Education brief, his media performances over the riots this morning were very good indeed and I ha...

Eric Pickles has done what Eric Pickles does best today . He has put information in the public domain that has 2 points to it - most importa...

No. Ever. However ... what it does raise is an interesting discussion regarding indirect democracy. As I often ask my A Level students; if d...

In his excellent piece for the Telegraph ( here ) blogger Graeme Archer does a grand job of knocking down the rather, ahem, inetresting idea...

If my maths and calendar are correct, as of today I have now spent more of my life as a member of the Conservative Party than not being a me...

I thought you may like to consider an issue that doesn’t involve phone hacking but does impact on millions of families across the country – ...

As the hackgate story claims scalp after scalp, Iain Dale wonders if the crisis will lap up against the feet at Number Ten, whilst pb.com sp...

Iain Dale writes passionately about the financial perils of being a parliamentary candidate and he is right to do so.    No matter how corre...

I am a bit of traditionalist and a fan of PMQs. Some days, like today, are so manic I cannot watch it until nearly midnight but I watch it w...

I didn't know Christopher Shales but what I have read about him since his death suggest to me he is a decent, kind and community minded ...

I am democrat and I instinctively support elections for the House of Lords, on the basic principle that those who legislate for us ought to ...

I am sure that Tory MP Phillip Davies didn't quite expect the firestorm he received when talking about the best way of getting disabled ...

Having spent one post saying why Michael Gove is the best thing to happen to education since whiteboard markers meant you didn't get cha...

I have a deep dark secret. Shhhh ... I shall whisper it. Come closer. No - that's too close. (I used to be a member of the NUT). No I am...

I am about to break a cardinal rule of politics; I am in favour of U-Turns. Yes, you should read that again, because its true. I am in favou...

We expect in this country, quite rightly, that everybody ought to have their say. If Joanna Lumbly is an expert on Gurkha rights, the Prince...

It's been a few months since the last entry on this blog and the reason for that is that I had really lost interest in it (honest, if no...

More on this story on South Norwich News and the Norwich Conservatives site, but it strikes me as mad that after all the work that the com...