Local politics is interesting. In some places there are Unitary Authorities. This means that there are one set of councillors looking after most services. Unitary authorities need to be of certain size to work or things go wrong when there is insufficient critical mass. A realistic size for us would be a county wide unitary. Read more

A new study by Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK), has revealed that Cambridge is Europe’s most successful technology cluster, having produced 10 companies valued at more than $1 billion, and two valued at more than $10 billion. In total, Cambridge has over 1,525 high-tech companies, employing more than 53,000 people. In 2011, these Read more

He will call for the Tories to go into the next general election with their main slogan on the issue as: “Back to a common market.” Liam Fox on Europe Read more

The subject of broadband is confusing. In Cambridgeshire there are three things going on. Firstly, commercial suppliers continue to upgrade exchanges to provide Superfast broadband at no cost to the public purse because it makes commercial sense to them. These are typically higher density populations. Secondly, the county council is investing in what are called Read more

Clearly this originated in the US but does have some parallels here. If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned Read more

The issue of our membership of the European Union is complex and it seems that most people have a view on it. What started out as a common market allowing free trade between member states has grown into an entity in its own right. It has ambitions of financial and political union across all member Read more