On Saturday 6 February, I am hosting an event for local Conservative Members in the Thames Valley on "Jobs, Pensions, Demography and Immigration: The Challenges of an Ageing Society". As raised by this blog before (see blogs of 3 July and 13 November 2009), with average life expectancy now 10 ...
At a meeting of local business leaders last week, I was approached by a businesswoman concerned about how Britain and local businesses in Oxfordshire in particular were going to survive with much of the world’s economy shifting from the west to the east, particularly in India and China. One of ...
Happy New Year to you all. While much of Britain is being immobilised by heavy snow fall and Brussels is clogged up with hearings for nominated Commissioners in the European Parliament (a commendable democratic exercise to which I will return in my next blog), my subject today is one which ...
