We must be inventive in hard times

Council leader Rod Bluh

7:00am Thursday 4th April 2013

It is easy for people to attack local authorities for being bloated, profligate and wasteful.

Councillors motivated by urge to help

Coun Rod Bluh, who has become the longest serving political chief at Swindon Council

7:00am Thursday 28th March 2013

First of all, my best wishes to you all as we celebrate or enjoy the Easter Weekend. Not rain this year, just bitter cold!

It is spooky but I’ve never seen a ghost

My nerdiness nearly got me in big trouble

9:29am Monday 25th March 2013

Shut the curtains and draw your chair up to the fire because I am going to tell you my spooky ghost story.

A Budget for the aspiration nation

JUSTIN TOMLINSON COLUMN: We have got country back into growth

9:18am Friday 22nd March 2013

As I predicted here last week, the Budget, set out by the Chancellor on Wednesday, was an Austerity Budget. It was prudent. Yet that is where my foresight ended for ‘modest and reserved’ it was not. This Budget was bold. It dared, despite the severe financial constraints, to articulate a vision of a country that aspires to get on and where Government’s role is to help people do just that. This vision of an ‘aspiration nation’, goes straight to the heart of what Conservatives stand for. It is a vision that this Budget makes a reality.

Protecting us all from global price increases

JUSTIN TOMLINSON COLUMN: We have got country back into growth

10:00am Friday 15th March 2013

It is that time of year again when the lights at the Treasury burn into the early hours as the Chancellor puts the finishing touches to the Budget.

The goals of a local authority

Rod Bluh

7:10am Thursday 14th March 2013

ONE of the biggest questions we now have to answer in these challenging financial times, is what is the basic role of a local authority? This debate underpins our annual budget discussions, and our long-term goals as outlined in the Big Conversation.

They Beaver away for a worthy cause

Swindon South MP Robert Buckland

10:40am Wednesday 13th March 2013

One of the great pleasures of being an MP is meeting some of our fantastic community groups who do so much good work and, in many cases, raise a great deal of money.

We should be celebrating our heritage

My nerdiness nearly got me in big trouble

10:28am Monday 11th March 2013

IF I told you I have just come back from a pilgrimage, you might think I’ve been to Lourdes, Canterbury or even Mecca.

I can’t wait to fast forward to Christmas

My nerdiness nearly got me in big trouble

10:20am Monday 10th December 2012

This week I’d like us all to think about the loss of the good old cassette tape. But first let’s… um… rewind a little.

Pressing for quick change is dangerous

Swindon South MP Robert Buckland

10:45am Tuesday 4th December 2012

THE long-awaited Leveson report into the ethics and behaviour of the press has been published.

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