My day with the Freedom Association and the excommunication of Tim Montgomerie
- 9 Mar 2015
Travelling on the train to speak the the annual Freedom Festival in Bournemouth this weekend I had this creeping feeling that I had made a terrible mistake. After all I am a dripping wet Cameroon moderniser who thoroughly approves of the direction of the Conservative party has...
Forget the television debates, shove them all in the big brother house for six weeks.
- 5 Mar 2015
So, the big story of the moment is the debate about the debate about the debate. The usual suspects, Prescott and Campbell, predictably are accusing Cameron of being cowardly for not agreeing to a head to head with Miliband and just offering one debate with seven party leaders...
Just as I thought the Telegraph could sink no lower they splash a dodgy sting story.
- 23 Feb 2015
Just as I thought that the Daily Telegraph could sink no lower they splash a dodgy sting about cash for access. Now put out of your minds whether you think that MPs should have no outside interests and ignore what you might think of the policies of Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifki...
The Telegraph front page is a ruthless and cynical attempt to close the Oborne story down. They will succeed
- 21 Feb 2015
What on earth did senior management of the Telegraph think that they were doing running that appalling story on their front page this morning? You know the one about suicides at the TIMES because of the pressures put on them by Murdoch management to cosy up to advertisers. And...
Not only has barrister David Osborne have stone age views on rape he has previously called for the abolition of juries because they contain women and riff raff
- 9 Feb 2015
I have been reading with the sick fascination that some people have from rubber necking a car crash the utterings of ‘Top Barrister’ David Osborne. His views on rape are simply just that; views. They are not the law. A woman (or a man ) not only has to consent but be in a fi...
The Invisibles. Why have the Shadow Cabinet disappeared from sight?
- 5 Feb 2015
I didn’t sleep very well last night, so rather than count sheep I decided that it would be more soporific to count members of the Shadow Cabinet. Sadly, it kept me awake as I found it very difficult to name most of them, let alone what on earth their policies were. The two Eds...
Grayling's attempt to curtail judicial review shows he puts the dick into tat. This is one shit that will have to be flushed after the election
- 22 Jan 2015
If we were not a few weeks away from an election Chris Grayling would have been ventilated from office. The man is incompetent and a disgrace. I have bored you enough about how he is dismantling our system of justice, destroying the independent bar and plans to close down the ...
Labours Health tactics are a disgrace and Farage is the only party leader that doesn't believe in an NHS that is free at the point of delivery
- 21 Jan 2015
An eerie silence has descended upon Westminster. Eyes that are normally popping out on stalks have ceased to swivel. Ruddy faces usually contorted in rage have become more like beacons of serenity. And the green portcullised carpets have been spared the usual foam specked gnas...
There has always been a sensitivity to humour amongst demagogues, dictators and fundamentalists
- 8 Jan 2015
There is a justified sense of horror and outrage in the civilised world at the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The real question is why are we at all surprised? In our cosy, reasonably well fed Western European comfort blanket satire and the freedom to cause offence is deeply embedded...
May will be livid at being called 'once loyal' by Tim Montgomerie
- 22 Dec 2014
Just as I had thought that John Witherow had unbuckled the final strap of Tim Montgomerie’s canvas jacket and administered the final dose of Maggadone (a fairly painless method of weaning people off of a deadly addiction to Thatcherism), his latest piece in the Thunderer made ...