What we think...
May 2010
India Knight (Sunday Times 24 May) wrote an interesting article on handwriting, and highlighted a recent survey that a fifth of schoolchildren have never [hand]written a letter, while a tenth have never received a letter themselves.
Is handwriting really dying? Has letter-writing already died?
I’ve just been reading an interesting article from Nick Robinson about the content of today’s Queen’s speech.
Nick begins by asking if we can remember any previous Queen’s speeches – not the visual elements of the speeches such as Black Rod, the throne or the horse-drawn carriage, but the content of the speech itself.
Can’t say I do…
Wow. If there was ever a group of people in need of a story, it is the UK’s new coalition government.
I have personally watched hours of tv election coverage and debates, and read even more in the papers and online… and I’m fascinated. But still a little bit baffled as to how we’ve ended up here, and potentially for five years. Is this really what we voted for?
Yesterday, we saw a fantastic example of two people uniting behind a common purpose in the Downing Street rose garden: to form a stable government to serve in the national interest. For David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the power of that purpose allowed them to rise above their differences. Now we have to wait to see whether they can take their parties with them. And the ministries. And the civil service. And the markets. And the country.