Posts Tagged ‘fencing’
Victory in Much Wenlock
It's the end of the fencing season, and it's been a good couple of days. Saturday was the British Championships, where I achieved 35th place — for once beating my UK ranking (42), and hopefully giving me enough points to push me up a little. Sunday — today — was something rather special. It was the Much Wenlock Olympian Games. Now in their [...]
Victory at the Isle of Wight
Not political victory this time, but in fencing. For the first time in years, I won a trophy: with Max Weedon and John Routledge winning the men's foil Team event. I was placed 8th in the individual event, defeating John Pryor and Richard Biggs after a bye into the second round of the direct elimination, but losing to former Olympian Nick Bell in [...]
Delighted to be elected Chair of Lib-Dem Parliamentary Candidates Association
I was delighted last night (Tuesday) to be elected as Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidates Association, to serve two years from 2008 to the end of 2009. The PCA represents Liberal Democrat candidates across the UK's 660 Westminster parliamentary constituencies, as well as candidates for the Scottish, Welsh and European [...]
Toy weapons: why the government is (surprisingly) right and the NUT is wrong
BBC NEWS | Education | Toy weapons help boys to learnA new government report urging teachers not to stop boys playing with toy weapons has been sharply criticised by the NUT and the NASUWT. NUT General Secretary Steve Sinnott said that the problem was that toy weapons "symbolised aggression". Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT decided [...]
