March 2009 Archives

EVER had one of those experiences where something you've been struggling with for ages is solved within seconds by someone else? A bit like when you wrestle with a jar and then someone comes along - normally in my case, they're shorter, older or female - and whips it open without so much as a second thought?

This blog has been my virtual jar for the past week or so as I wrestled with the situation every blogger has come up against: What to write in that first blog. How to make the introduction and actually say something of interest. How to sum up what's to come without being self-serving. You get the sort of thing.

Then along came Graham Allen, Labour MP for Nottingham North, talking about the issue which everyone's getting their teeth into: MPs expenses.