Day: 20 February 2011

It is interesting the way so much of what happens is unforeseen by politicians and especially governments. Suddenly the new week looks a good deal less attractive from Whitehall than Mondays in the dynamic post natal period of the coalition government. Now there is revolution in the Middle East, unemployment is rising fast, growth has […]

There is new impetus to bring the U.K. into European time, which would mean permanently one hour ahead of GMT and two hours in summer. This has been the case twice in my lifetime; once during  WWII, when it was known as double summer time and once in the early seventies, when the experiment was known […]