Articles tagged Personal:
My Predictions for 2016
- 31 Dec 2015
This time last year I made my predictions for 2015. I got 8 out of 10 right (see HERE for proof!). Not sure I’ll do as well this year. Here goes… The EU Referendum will be held in July. The ‘Stay’ Campaign will prevail, but by a margin of 55-45 or less. Nigel ...
WATCH: The Most Deadly Disease You've Never Heard Of
- 9 Sep 2015
Yesterday on my show I talked to Bafta award winning actor Jason Watkins (he played the lead in ‘The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferie’s and plays Simon in ‘W1A’) who lost his three year old daughter Maude to the silent killer Sepsis in 2011. One person dies in the world eve...
Attitude Column: The Ups & Downs of Public Displays of Affection
- 20 Aug 2015
Every so often when I’m walking from the LBC studios to Charing Cross Station to get my train home I spy a couple of guys walking down the street hand in hand. And every time I see it, I get a spring in my step. If I saw a man and a woman holding hands I’d think nothing of it,...
My Personal Memory of 7/7
- 7 Jul 2015
I don’t know if you remember where you were on the morning of the 7th July 2005 when you heard the news of the terrorist bombings in London. It seems a lot longer ago than ten years to be honest. And yet it also seems closer. I remember virtually everything about that day. I ...
Restaurant Review: Shepherd's of Westminster
- 3 Jul 2015
When I first came to Westminster in the mid 1980s there was a restaurant in Marsham Street called ‘Lockets’. As a lowly researcher, it was always a treat to be taken there. At some point it was sold to Michael Caine and it became Shepherds. It then closed down a couple of yea...
On This Day I Got Married
- 12 Jun 2015
Seven years ago on Monday, John and I entered a civil partnership. You can read about the day HERE if you’d like to. It really was a perfect day. Today we converted our civil partnership into a marriage. In effect it is backdated to 15 June 2008, so we’ve now been married fo...
Attitude Column: The Joys of Equal Marriage
- 11 Jun 2015
Seven years ago this month my partner and I got married. Well, at least we thought we did. The reason I say ‘thought’ is that for us, entering a civil partnership was indeed the same as getting married. For us the implications were the same. Yes, it was a legal contract, but i...
Iain Dale to Replace Lord Ashcroft in the House of Lords
- 1 Apr 2015
It’s being officially announced later this morning, but I wanted my esteemed readers to be the first to know, that I am being raised to the peerage to replace Michael Ashcroft in the House of Lords. It’s a great honour and I am very grateful to Michael for resigning his seat a...
Should I Go To A&E For Something That Is Neither an Accident Nor an Emergency?
- 28 Mar 2015
I’m in Edinburgh this weekend to attend a wedding. I’m in a very nice hotel and they let me check in early. So far so good. You may recall that a couple of weeks ago I had to have an unexpected operation. It all went well, but every day I have to go to my doctors to have the ...
Attitude Column: Why I Hate Buying Clothes (And Shoes)
- 15 Mar 2015
Just like beauty, style is in the eye of the beholder. Of course the word ‘style’ means very different things to different people. Some people have it, some of us don’t. I’ve never pretended to be a dedicated follower of fashion, which I am sure you will find a massive surpris...