DAVID Cameron has given a boost to apprenticeships.

There was a time when some were distinctly sniffy about apprenticeships, seeing them as second best to university. I don’t think that is so anymore as people look to avoid college debt.

Encouragingly, professions are looking again at their previous insistence on a degree. Degrees are great but they must not be the only ticket to a bright future.

On the Falkland Islands referendum, I am intrigued that only 0.2 per cent of the population did not vote for continuing the current arrangements.

I’m heartily fed up with Argentina’s bullying and harassment of people whose right to decide how they live is surely beyond all reasonable doubt. You wouldn’t have thought that just 30 years ago Argentina took the islands by military force with.

The Argentine president hawks herself round South America bleating that if only the islands b e c a m e Argentine her country’s manifold woes and those of the continent would be solved. What silliness. The sooner she is called to account for turning her country into an economic basket case the better.

Well done Theresa May for articulating our frustration with the European Court of Human Rights over the appalling Abu Qatada. To save the rule of law from ridicule we have to revisit our subscription to the European human rights industry.

What lessons to draw from the dreadful Chris Huhne episode?

Speed limits are compulsory not advisory; perverting the course of justice will be punished; if you’re in a hole stop digging; the law is for everyone; and, finally, hell has no fury like a woman scorned.