IT emerged this week that Banbury MP Tony Baldry’s son is the editor of the anti-authoritarian and punk ’zine Last Hours.

Mr Baldry said his son Ed, like everyone else, was free to hold his own views and he would defend that right. But the veteran Tory MP admitted he wasn’t a regular reader of Last Hours.

The publication describes itself as “an online and occasional print ’zine for the anti-authoritarian, DIY and punk communities”.

Mr Baldry said: “Most of it I find incomprehensible. I don’t understand it."

As a Conservative MP with 28 years service, we doubt he is the target audience.

Talking of anti-authoritarian, a very Oxford protest is developing in Hinksey Park. Angered (or at least very miffed), by Oxford City Council’s crackdown on community notices attached to park railings (they have been told to desist or face an £80 fine), residents have hit back.

A protest poem has now been posted urging like-minded souls to pin up creative notes in an erudite act of defiance, right.

To give them credit, the council recognised the irony in posting a temporary notice demanding people stopped posting temporary notices.

It remains to be seen how they will quash the poetic defiance, but don’t rule out edict by light opera.

Prolific tweeter and county councillor Ian Hudspeth was all thumbs this week... or was he? Updating followers about his whereabouts, Mr Hudspeth said: “4th Pariah Council meeting of the week and yes the issues are the same but they are the bedrock of the community.”

Mr Hudspeth probably mis-spelled ‘Parish’ in his haste to tell the world his business.

If not, there could be a no-fly zone imposed over Bladon any day now.

Prime Minister David Cameron steamed ahead of himself when talking railways this week. Ahead of the announcement that the Swindon to Kemble line would be improved, the Witney MP said he understood passengers’ pain.

He added: “As a Member of Parliament with a seat to the west of London, I know the problems on the Cotswold Line, which has recently been improved through redoubling.”

Mr Cameron might be an avid cyclist, but perhaps he hasn’t taken the train home for a while – redoubling work won’t be complete until June.