The battle of Penzance harbour makes YouTube

Much mirth at County Hall over this, amid fevered speculation over who is responsible. Councillor Graeme Hicks, Redruth's Independent cabinet member for transport, clearly has a sense of humour and tells me it's all part of the fun. But I confess that if you're new to the debate about Penzance harbour, this probably isn't the best place to start.

So how many jobs is this? Answers please....

Sick and tired of Tory plans for wealth re-distribution

Only 48 hours in to the Conservative party conference and already we hear of proposals to take £25/week from disabled people and to force the entire working population to continue labouring for an extra year before getting a state pension. All to save the rich from paying more in taxes. Brilliant. If it wasn't such a disturbing vision of what a Tory government would do, you could almost describe it as a Blairite blueprint for another New Labour manifesto.

Ouch! *!?* Ow! Bugger! **!*

Rolled my ankle playing tennis yesterday. It's now twice the size it should be, a disturbing shade of black & blue, and it won't move. Oh, and did I mention that I am in chronic pain? If you have any good jokes about how gentlemen of a certain age should refrain from competetive physical sport, just shove them up your arse.

Leverton/Williams Tennis

Jail the rich

It will be interesting to see how the new Supreme Court goes about its business. With Nick Phillips as its president (er, sorry, that should be the Rt Hon Lord Phillips of Worth Maltravers as Lord Chief Justice) we have a top judge with apparently impeccable credentials as a reforming, radical liberal. In my humble opinion he did an excellent job on the BSE inquiry. History may yet judge the establishment of the Supreme Court, and the abolition of the old Law Lords' function in the House of Lords, as one of the Labour government's more worthwhile achievements. And with the country allegedly about to fall under the thrall of a bunch of toffee-nosed Old Etonions, the stage is set for some classic State vs Legislature punch-ups. Maybe not quite in the same visceral "class war" context of Lord Denning telling the poor they should pay more to travel by tube.......but I live in hope.

Norman John Worthington

And so the official, authorised history of MI5 today finally confirms what Harold Wilson was banging on about more than 30 years ago - that the UK's domestic intelligence agency was actually spying on the country's democratically-elected Prime Minister.

And yes, there is a Cornish angle to this story, explored in my 2001 documentary, Spy Station. Personally, I think it's well worth 23 minutes of your time to watch again - just click on the link below.