About David
The photo above was taken in May 2002, just after he was elected as City Councillor for Headington. He’s aged since then. He’s served in several roles on the Council, having been Chair of Housing Scrutiny for two years, Chair of North East Area Committee for another two, as well as having been Deputy Leader of the Council. Since May 2008, he has been Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group, and so Leader of the Opposition on Oxford City Council. In case that’s not enought to keep him busy, he’s Chair of the Communities and Partnership Scrutiny Committee, Co-Vice Chair of the North East Area Committee, and also serves on the Appointments Committee and the General Purposes Licensing Committee. And, all the while, what he enjoys most about being a councillor is the work in Headington itself.
In those times between meetings and dealing with casework, he is a Renaissance historian, completing a book on quattrocento humanism and England. If you want to know more about that side of his life, you can visit his website, bonae litterae. Intermittently, he expresses his views on politics, under another Latin headline, de moribus liberalibus. If he wasn’t a councillor and had free time, he would spend it cooking, going to the cinema (for arthouse films, preferably not in English, but not necessarily depressing), eating out and writing restaurant reviews in his head — and getting frustrated that he wasn’t involved in public life.
