There have been forty-six in Switzerland in the last five years. Since 1971, forty-five years ago, there have been three hundred and seventy-six. You know what I’m on about; the Swiss penchant for putting everything to a referendum.
Month: April 2016
Limestone Way, Day Three
Limestone Way, Day Two
The Limestone Way is not an ancient footpath like, say, the Ridgeway or Peddars Way. It was created by the Derbyshire county council, I suppose to promote tourism. Originally it ran from Castleton to Matlock and this is the route, about twenty-eight miles, we are taking. Nobody can accuse us of being over ambitious. (Subsequently… Continue reading Limestone Way, Day Two
Limestone Way, Day One
“Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.” This is what Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in Virginibus Puerisque, a collection of essays published in 1881. What I think this morning is that I will be jolly glad to arrive… Continue reading Limestone Way, Day One
To Sheffield – and Hope
Duel Purpose
Speaker’s House
A while back I was fortunate to be invited by Pippa to Speaker’s House in the Palace of Westminster. Of course I was keen to take a look at the extravagant refurb. undertaken by a former Speaker, Tony-crony Derry Irvine. You may remember that he was criticised for going OTT and the bill, as usual,… Continue reading Speaker’s House