My usual list of ten blog posts which have caught my eye this week…
- Mike Smithson at PoliticalBetting comments on Labour’s latest attack on the blogosphere.
- David Bean has been selected as the Conservative candidate for the upcoming by-election in Didsbury West.
- David Ottewell feels slightly more popular. Merry Christmas David!
- Stephen Crabb MP, writing on the Blue Blog, wants ideas for a Private Members’ Bill.
- Also on the Blue Blog, Anastasia Beaumont-Bott explains Social Action.
- Cllr Simon Renwick notes the Government’s u-turn on elected police officials.
- Dan Hannan MEP is scathing of Labour’s policing u-turn.
- David Jones MP has a straightforward graph about the decline of sterling.
- ConservativeHome welcomes the new Routemaster designs.
- James Wharton recounts a tense but successful parish by-election.
UPDATE: Seems I pressed “save” rather than “publish” so this post didn’t actually appear until Monday. Sorry.
20th Anniversary of the Lockerbie Bombing
Twenty years ago today, a terrorist blew the Boeing 747 Clipper Maid of the Seas, operating as Pan-Am Flight 103, out of the sky above the Scottish borders town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board as well as 11 people on the ground.
I was just five years old at the time, but as I lived in Carluke in Lanarkshire at the time I remember vividly from travelling south to visit family here in Walkden the large fence constructed to shield the crash site from the passing traffic on the A74. My thoughts today are with the victims of this terrible atrocity and their family and friends.