Conservatives and Rwanda

Posted by on Jul 20, 2007 in Uncategorized | 28 comments Vicky Ford is writing some brilliant reports on her mission to Africa, to the beautiful country known best for its genocide, to Rwanda where she – and other Conservatives – are helping improve the lives of those living in abject poverty. I know it will be a truly unforgettable and moving experience. The aspiring MP is among Project Umubano in Rwanda, a...
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My vision for citizen news networking

Posted by on Jul 20, 2007 in updates | 8 comments I have just returned from an Anglia TV reception in Cambridge with the local great and the good where the company said  they would loan out video cameras if anyone wanted to record an event, encouraging them to be citizen journalists.  I turned to Bob Pearson, Director of Communications at Cambridgeshire County Council, and described to him my vision for citizen news...
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The Ealing Southall defeat

Posted by on Jul 20, 2007 in Uncategorized | 18 comments I had been hoping Conservatives would come at least second in the Ealing Southall by-election, but coming third was a bitter blow and a huge embarrassment. Tony Lit, despite his dashing Bollywood looks and huge popularity was obviously a flawed choice after it became known that he had only joined the Conservative Party shortly before his selection and had donated money to Labour just days...
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Great quote from Othello

Posted by on Jul 20, 2007 in updates | 3 comments “Men are nothing but stomachs and we their food. They eat us until they are full and then they belch us.” I would like to think that times have changed since the great Bard wrote those words in Othello, but what a wonderfully, descriptive way of putting it. And what kind of guy sits in the theatre and reads the whole play from a book as it is being performed before his very eyes by...
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The missing – Jovanna Stacey Crawford

Posted by on Jul 20, 2007 in updates | 0 comments  Jovanna Stacey Crawford went missing on June 5, 1981 when she was just two years old. Sometimes, differing information is given about the circumstances of a person’s disappearance, which is the case here. Some reports state that the last time Jovanna was seen was at her home in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the care of a family friend. The family friend gave the child to...
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