This is a very sentimental post. My last surviving grandparent died today. She was born in Caerphilly (better than being born carelessly, I guess) as Peggy Jean Jenkins. Not as Margaret Jenkins, that'd be boring. And because Wales, she was never called Peggy Jean by anyone; she was Meg from birth. Her husband, who died last year, was … Continue reading Meg Williams, a woman of all importance
Month: May 2015
One of the most interesting questions after the 2015 UK General Election is, how could all of the electoral polling possibly have gone so incredibly wrong? Labour and the Conservatives were predicted to be neck-and-neck and both short of forming a government on their own, with Labour losing about 50 seats in Scotland to the Scottish Nationalist … Continue reading There was no late swing, and there were no shy Tories