Articles tagged EDP:
EDP/EADT Column: Bring back the shopping experience to fix high street decline
- 26 Jan 2019
Rates and rents are often blamed for killing the high street, but Iain Dale argues we need to make shopping on them more of an experience if they have any hope of surviving... Barely a week goes by without us hearing of a new major shop closure on our high streets. Some are...
EDP Column: Let's 'Renationalise' Highways England
- 13 Jan 2019
‘Fog in Channel – Continent Cut Off’ – that was a headline in The Times during Edwardian times. It signalled the high-handed, rather superior attitude we had (and possibly still have!) to our continental cousins. There is nowadays a modern day equivalent, courtesy of a governm...
My First EDP/EADT Column: Why Extra Policing Should be Paid For Locally
- 4 Jan 2019
Today marks the publication of my first weekly column for the Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times. The papers cover all of Norfolk, Suffolk, Western Cambridgeshire and North Essex. My remit is to write a political column with edge, but with relevance to the...
Starting in January: My New Weekly Column in the EDP & EADT
- 2 Dec 2018
As many of you know, I’m an East Anglian boy at heart. I was born in Cambridge and spent the first 18 years of my life being brought up in a little village in the Essex/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border called Ashdon, near Saffron Walden. I then spent six years in Norwich, firs...
What Norfolk Means To Me (And Being Interviewed by a Guinea Pig)
- 23 Sep 2018
What is your idea of perfect happiness in Norfolk? Walking along Mundesley beach (pic below). When I was at university in Norwich in the early 1980s I used to drive out there at midnight from time to time and just wander along the beach listening to the waves crashing again...
EDP Column: Why Liz Truss Deserves the Support of SW Norfolk Tories
- 31 Oct 2009
“I suppose you’re going to pour some kerosene on the South West Norfolk selection in your EDP column,” said one local MP to me yesterday, rather miserably. Much as I might like to indulge in some more hyperbole, I shall do my best to resist temptation and try to offer some mat...
EDP Column: Why Do Politicians Write Autobiographies?
- 8 Oct 2006
The publication of David Blunkett’s diaries is likely to yield great disappointment for his publishers, Hodder. The reason why this book will rise quickly to that ever growing ‘remainder heaven’ in the sky is that we all believe we know quite enough about David Blunk...
Buck Up EDP!
- 19 Aug 2004
I banged off a letter to the EDP about their ridiculous editorial yesterday. I honestly despair of them sometimes. Why is it that they sneer at anything a political party proposes, calling it "opportunistic" or horror of horrors "populist". Far be it from a politician to propo...