On Tuesday I hosted the Anne Frank Trust’s 10th Anniversary of the Anne Frank Declaration event at the House of Commons on Tuesday.

Sorry so late writing it up – but it was quite astonishing. First and foremost the Trust does extraordinary work with the Anne Frank story – using it to help young people everywhere. The Trust brings a timeless story which is seminal in its message to the world about fighting wrongs – but in the real world of a young teenager.

There was a video telling of their work, various speakers (including me) but most astonishing was that the singer Natasha Marsh (you may hear her on every Euro Championship football match on the TV) was here to sing live. One song, composed specially for the Trust will be released to raise funds. She sang three songs – the last being ‘You’ll never walk alone’.

It was sooooooo beautiful – like a bird soaring in perfect pitch – in the most incongruous of settings (Dining Room A). I wondered if the glorious tones would rise up into the House of Commons Chamber to take the message there. Congratulations to the Trust for all that they do – a wonderful event.

I’m on the show tomorrow (Saturday) talking about families and David Cameron – family policies, whether it’s right for him to use photos of his kids in political stuff, and more! Catch it at 11am or listen again via the website.

One of our councillors, Ali Demirci, has gone over to Labour. It’s only two years since Ali was elected on the Liberal Democrat ticket. Was his belief in fairness, equality and community so transitory? Or have Labour’s overtures and love-bombing simply turned his head? With his family links to Labour – perhaps he just took the easy road. Anyway – it will make the political contest in Bounds Green (which already had both Liberal Democrat and Labour councillors) all the more interesting!

That was the theme of last week’s column for the Ham & High:

I am sick of the good guys being the fall guys. Let me elucidate. At its most simple it’s that honest, good citizens (the good guys) who transgress, for let’s say, staying on a parking meter or pay and display a few minutes over time get a ticket – and pay it.

The bad guys – who perhaps don’t bother to find a meter and park illegally and get a ticket or are involved in a traffic incident or so on – by contrast frequently don’t pay. And the worse they are, the less likely they are to pay – because they’ve not got up-to-date car tax, not got insurance, not got a license, given a fake address, using a stolen car, can’t be traced via the DVLA or because of any of 101 other reasons.

It all amounts to the more honest you are, the more likely you are to be punished if you make a mistake or have a momentary lapse of judgement. Don’t get me wrong – I am a great supporter of proper traffic and parking regulations – and if we park illegally we should be done for it and pay up – but the rules have to be fair and they have to be right. But the zealous – often over-zealous – chasing up of people who are easy to find whilst others can escape completely means we have the opposite of how a fair and just system should work. Good guys get the punishment, bad guys escape. Yes, punish people if they break the rules, but punish people more severely the worse their actions.

Even worse, those who aren’t easy to trace because of the tax and insurance etc dodges are often flouting not just those rules but, on the too rare occasions they are caught, turn out to be wanted for a host of other offences too. Pursuing the habitual wrong-doers would therefore reduce all sorts of misdeeds and clean up a whole range of misdemeanours.

So – you would think – that the authorities would invest in catching the bad guys. But think back through the recent government announcements and ideas – spying on people’s litter bins, mandatory national ID cards, introducing a database of all the phone calls and emails in this country – and they’re all ones that involve putting huge resources into keeping tabs on innocent people…

You can read the rest of the piece on my website.