Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons is finally standing down. How is the odious toad treated for defending corruption, opposing accountability and dragging British democracy into the gutter? He keeps his full pension and party leaders queue up to pay their tributes to him. No wonder public confidence in politics is so low.
And in Northern Ireland, sustained violence against Romanian migrants has forced 100 to leave their homes. How can this happen in a supposedly civilised country? I fear the answer is that this can happen anywhere and (as we saw in the House of Commons today) our supposed civilisation is more rotten than it has been for a generation.
At the office, I wrote a report on our possible Holywell relocation, held further discussions about the future of our work on volunteering, and talked with Althea McLean OBE (my vice Chair of trustees) about our concerns for our chair Pam Handley.
