Articles tagged EDP Diary:
EDP Diary: From Lake Como
- 27 Sep 2007
Moltrasio, Lake Como Foreign languages are a funny thing. I used to be fluent in German, having lived there for two years and studied it for my degree. But for twenty years I have had scant little opportunity to practice it. So when I got an invitation to speak to the Konra...
EDP Diary: When I Took My Mum to Zurich
- 31 Aug 2007
Being a politician sometimes involves taking big decisions, many of which will be unpopular. David Cameron is soon going to have to decide which of the menu of policies provided by his various policy commissions he will adopt and include in his manifesto. Over the last year, f...
EDP Column: My Five Minute Interview
- 30 Aug 2007
What is your idea of perfect happiness in Norfolk? Walking along Mundesley beach. 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 against the sand....
EDP Diary: An October Election?
- 16 Aug 2007
Further proof of Tony Blair’s obsession with all things American has come with the news that he has hired a top US lawyer to broker a book deal for him. Pundits reckon that a publisher may well fork out $12 million for his memoirs. If so, they’re mad. Not a single publisher ha...
EDP Column: The Plight of a Chief of Staff
- 29 Jul 2007
Dereham’s Andy Marshall can be justifiably proud of his terrific Open performance last weekend. He carried the dreams of all of us hacking golfers with him. Having made the cut on Friday he scored a memorable four under par on Saturday, a round he will surely treasure for the ...
EDP Column: My Rwandan Diary
- 27 Jul 2007
Over the last seven days I have had the experience of a lifetime. I’ve been in Rwanda making three films about the Rwandan genocide, life in Rwanda today and the 44 Conservative MPs and activists who have been spending two weeks on VSO backed social action projects. ...
EDP Diary: Up for an Award
- 18 Jul 2007
As you read this column, think of me as I spend a week in Rwanda along with forty assorted Tory MPs, candidates and volunteers. They have each forked out the best part of £1,000 to spend a fortnight on a VSO backed scheme to do good works in a country still ravaged by the afte...
EDP Diary: Nominated for an Award!
- 22 Jun 2007
Some time ago a journalist friend of mine, who shall remain nameless for the purpose of this blog, asked me if her 15 year old son could come and do a week's work experience with me in July. I like to be helpful so I said yes and thought no more of it. Yesterday I got a phone ...
EDP Diary: The Dumbing Down of TV News
- 8 Jun 2007
There is a lot of talk about how TV has dumbed down in recent years. I suppose the rise o reality TV is the perfect exemplification of this trend. This week the Sky News presenter Kay Burley broke off a serious interview on prison reform to go live to California to cover the e...
EDP Diary: Is the NHS Safe in Tory Hands?
- 24 May 2007
Incredible though it may seem, health policy is an area in which the Conservatives are ahead in the polls for the first time since 1948 without actually having the benefit of any real policy. The last thing David Cameron should do is saddle himself with detailed policy in this...