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Wrong time for referendum

4:51pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

I RECALL that when the referendum on the Common Market took place in 1975 my parents were abroad because my father had been posted to Afghanistan.

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Gay marriage isn't popular in the New Forest

3:15pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

VITUALLY nobody I called on during the county council election campaign raised anything to do with Hampshire County Council, which is what the election was for.

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Deporting Qatada now would be 'a farce'

10:09am Wednesday 1st May 2013

WHEN I last wrote about Abu Qatada in November last year, it was on the back of quite a few emails from constituents demanding that the government proceed to deport him anyway, in defiance of the courts.

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Relationship breakdowns at root of problems

7:43pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

I HAVE never been comfortable with the term “surgeries” when describing my weekly sessions with constituents; it seems to imply an expertise I do not possess.

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Reflections on the Thatcher years

3:23pm Wednesday 17th April 2013

I WAS present in the Chamber of the House of Commons from 2.30pm until 7.30pm just over a week ago for the tributes to Baroness Thatcher.

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Welfare system should not trap people in unemployment

4:10pm Wednesday 10th April 2013

I VISITED a friend in Fordingbridge Hospital last weekend.

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No trace of persecuted feeling

1:15pm Wednesday 3rd April 2013

I WRITE fresh from the packed Easter Day service at my parish church, where we enthusiastically sang a magnificent choice of triumphal Easter anthems including my favourite, Thine be The Glory, Risen Conquering Son.

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Teaching is a noble profession...but nothing undermines it more than strike action

3:31pm Monday 1st April 2013

I’VE had a bit of an email spat with the NUT representative at one of our secondary schools.

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A31 speed limit is worth a try

5:12pm Wednesday 20th March 2013

THE obsession of the “political classes” with regulation or nonregulation, of the press has not troubled my email inbox very much in the last couple of weeks despite how swiftly events have moved.

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Immigration controls must be accompanied by willingness to embrace change

2:56pm Wednesday 13th March 2013

IMMIGRATION was the flavour of last week with a party political broadcast by Ed Milliband and speeches by both the Home Secretary and her shadow, Yvette Cooper.

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