The Road to Little Dribbling

in her spare time raises lots of money for the Northern Institute for Cancer Research. There are tons of people like us in the world—people who live in another country because of considerations of marriage or family or quiet affinity—and I would submit that if you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot. In this respect (and one or two others, frankly) the Conservatives are idiots. — That evening I attended a most enjoyable fund-raising dinner for the NICR and then the following day went to the Blagdon Hall estate, north of Newcastle, which was hosting the charity hike. Blagdon Hall is the ancestral home of t