If you want to get a glimpse of how politics will be organised in Britain sometime soon, take a look at the US elections. But at least in the US the voters get a say over how the big parties do things.

Reading seems to be resting on its laurels as a leading retail centre. That woouldn’t do even in the best of times.

Virtually nobody could name those responsible for oversseing the Police in Britain. Boris Johnson has changed all that. Isn’t it about time we had a say in who oversees our police force?

This year’s party conferences present the mirror images of the challenges facing Mr Brown and Mr Cameron last year. The Prime Minister now has nothing to lose.

Predictions of the End of the World as we know it are not to be taken seriously.

The Reading Festival has got bigger, but the experience for many attending has got worse. Now there are real safety concerns at Reading’s flagship event.

Even when the backs lose their bosses keep their bonuses, but shouldn’t the banks practice what they preach and save for a rainy day?

If teachers stopped patronising adults and spoke English instead of Edspeak then parents from less well educated backgrounds might have a chance.

When two tribes of Cab drivers go to war – we lose.

A long-awaited report on Reading’s transport produces nothing new and puts its faith in a politically undeliverable policy.