A Conservative's blog

I just read this on politicalbetting .com, and it made me laugh. Many thanks to Andy Cooke. As for its dominance, I ascribe it to its sheer ...

Well, not quite in full, but here are some highlights from The Telegraph on Sunday from the 24th of September 2006. Council tax revenue h...

I am just back from a weeks holiday in Weymouth, (in South Dorset, currently held by Labours Jim Knight). Actualy I am not. I was in August,...

You will notice that I now carry a link to www.saveparliament.org.uk on the left hand side of the page, as well as a link to the no2id cam...

According to a clip from a "martyrdom video" shown on Channel 4 tonight. There are about 1.4 billion Muslims world wide, so it se...

I regularly read politicalbetting.com , and from there got two links to interesting stories in the dead tree press. One is on pensions and h...

Well, why tax people? Anyone look forward to seeing just how much tax we have paid? Thought it was too low and demanded to pay more? As far ...

Well, if you want to know what all the fuss was about you can read the speech here , which if nothing else may help you get to sleep. Firstl...

I have just finished watching Spooks on BBC one. Very good drama, or at least I enjoyed it. Just one thought. This country is about far mor...

According to George Monbiot on BBC2's Newsnight last night. He even suggested we could have a pipeline network for hydrogen . Well, its...

It seems to me that there are many people, ( Newt Gingrich is an example that springs to mind) who wish to predict the next world war, a wa...

Whilst Labour are currently fighting like rats in a sack, missing the point that if you are going to have a coup, get it over with quickly, ...

Grim news indeed if true. I think it is because what they are trying to do is to separate Muslims from the rest of us. To create a climate o...

Over a month ago I wrote an article on the "War on Terror" and given current events I thought I would write another. From out of t...

Well, Iraq looks like a mess to me. A bloody one in which the guilty don't die often enough, but the innocents die in droves. Did it nee...

We are in Afghanistan as a result of the attacks of the 11th of September 2001. In many ways we have removed a very unpleasant government fr...

Those who inhabit the blogosphere can't have missed the various scandals around how parties currently get their funding. Guido Fawkes h...

Yesterday David Cameron leader of the Conservative party gave two speeches, one on social justice , and the other on the criminal justice sy...

The government is about to publish an energy review. Clearly someone did not like what was in the last one, and in the time honored traditio...

Today David Cameron, leader of the Conservative party is to give a speech on Social justice. In it he is roughly going to indicate that we ...