Martin's View

Time flies. It has been eight years since I last blogged about reforming the second chamber. On that time-scale I am a mere Johnny-come-l...

On the news this morning Lariam (or mefloquine) is still being proscribed for British troops in malarial zones. Now malaria is a debilitati...

I haven't blogged politics since the election and for obvious reasons: it was a terrible, awful night for the Liberal Democrats.  This w...

On our first night in Moscow we decided to have a walk and ended up, perhaps inevitably, on Red Square.  It is my first time in the city so ...

It is mid July and for the past six and a bit weeks I have been working with a Russian crew. The vessel was hired for a seismic survey as ...

Thank you for contacting me regarding the problem of personal debt in this country.   It is a difficult issue and anybody who has fallen int...

Thank you for contacting me about housing.   In Scotland, it is an issue that has been devolved to the Scottish Parliament, so if I did beco...