N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher — Steve Building on our visit to Durand Academy, I listened to Monday’s Today programme on Free Schools where the question posed was: How can the Government afford to hand out extra capital to Free Schools when the Department of […]
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Tim Hewish: Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures
N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher — Steve My attention was recently drawn to the reduced £13 million funding for State initiatives to provide books to pre-schoolers in the form of Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up. I can sense the reactionary response: Why would any Government […]
Read MoreMy reflections on our visit to Durand Academy
N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher. We have just returned this afternoon having visited the Durand Academy in South London. Researchers spend much of their time reading and studying policy, some policies better than others, but we often do not get to see the practical implementations.Therefore, […]
Read MoreVotes in Porridge
Yesterday during Justice Questions, my colleague James Gray (North Wiltshire) asked a vital question regarding votes for prisoners, which resonates through notions of national sovereignty, natural rights versus conferred rights, and the principle of incarceration. What was of particular concern was the Justice Secretary’s response: Prisoners given the right to vote […]
Read MoreA university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning – Disraeli
Reaction to the Government’s higher education reforms really got under the skin of my researcher, Tim Hewish, who launched into a passionate defence of the Government’s direction of travel. I asked him to write this post… — Steve Much has been said about the Browne Report on Higher Education and […]
Read MoreHow much do we really spend on welfare?
Steve asked me to make President Reagan’s 1964 Time for Choosing speech applicable for the UK in 2010. In the speech, Reagan posits that if the US were to give their total welfare budget of $45bn to those below the poverty line this would work out at $4,600 per person. Factoring for inflation this would […]
Read MorePutting Wycombe on the map
Here is the second of my short videos promoting the Wycombe Business Expo which starts this Thursday.
Read MoreWycombe Business Expo
In this video I give my views on the business prospects of Wycombe as well as lending my support to the Wycombe Business Expo. I will be publishing a video each day leading up to the event. Scheduled to happen every year, the first Wycombe Business Expo is on Thursday […]
Read MoreWe are the radicals now
N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher. David Cameron’s conference speech was statesmanlike and honest, but above all it was sophisticated. In just under an hour, he dismantled the idea that we needed the State to do everything for us. As Michael Gove has just said while commenting on […]
Read MoreThis Sceptred Isle – pupils will now learn the history of the United Kingdom
N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher. As a Historian, I welcome the Education Secretary’s announcement at conference today that History, as a discipline, will be at the core of the curriculum. For too long, Labour had been allowed to reduce the significance of our history, preferring to re-write […]
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