Monday I’m just stepping out of the shower in my exquisite Brussels belfry when the telephone rings. Gordon wants to know if I have learnt the difference between mushy peas and guacamole. “Snivelling little proles from the...
• David Cameron told the Tory conference: "Teachers can't put a plaster on a child's grazed knee without calling a first-aid officer." The image of an urchin suffering while a heartless, bureaucracy-gone-mad nanny state makes...
She made a winning combination of couture and kitsch on Sex And The City, followed it up with The Devil Wears Prada and Ugly Betty, and now she's turning her stylist's eye from Manhattan to middle England and ... Marks &...
The American election campaign has made life better for those of us living here and identified as non-enemies of President Bush or, even worse, one of the "neo-cons" David Cameron went all the way to Islamabad to denounce. It...
Published Date: 02 October 2008 MUCH attention has been focused this week on a political alignment between the Ulster Unionist Party and the Conservative Party and, while a complete merger has sensibly been ruled out, there are...
“PR Week” the trade rag (magazine) is reporting that Labour and Tories are “plotting to dominate the blogosphere”. The Labour Party in particular is exploring plans for an on line rapid rebuttal unit designed to kill off...
In the parallel universe in which I obviously live, much of what I am reading in the Guardian is not making much sense to me. A prominent Tory told me the other night he had known about the impending collapse for three years,...
Recent polling data from Ipsos Mori makes depressing reading for anyone who thinks housing should be further up the agenda of this government, or the next. Concerned that so many voters appear better acquainted with Tory...
Lazarus rises again. But Gordon Brown's willingness to bring him back inside the tent in today's reshuffle is a sign - perhaps the first really big sign – that he will not go down without a fight and is willing to learn lessons...
Change appears to be political buzzword of the times. The BNP is growing for several reasons, including the poor quality of some existing councillors and political parties taking voters for granted. However, the BNP's growing...