A Conservative's blog

The latest Ipsos Mori poll in today's Telegraph is dire news for Labour. It reports the shares as follows; Conservatives 52% (+4), Labo...

It is at times like this you do have to wonder, as a spectator, if it can get any worse. We have ever increasing calls for a Labour leadersh...

Well, we are 7 years on from the 11th of September 2001. I remember popping next door to the TV shop and watching the second plane hit on ma...

I am growing increasingly incensed at how much it seems the BBC do not care for the disabled. The coverage of the Paralymics is derisory. I ...

Well, there is good news about, or at least better than the utterly dire news we have been getting. The US government has effectively taken ...

The whole world of journalism was thrown into turmoil last night after it emerged that Kevin Keegan had not been sacked and had not resigned...

Well, that is not actually quite the message of the Policy Exchange report released today but it sure does sound like it. Iain Dale has his ...

Russian troops have throughout the day been withdrawing from Georgia in accordance with statements made by President Dmitry Medvedev. This w...

You do have to ask, don't you. It is true that at this time of year that the separatist parts of Georgia kick off. Conspiracy theorists ...

This is a question that Iain Dale poses on his blog , quoting some interesting articles including some from Cicero's songs . I like Cice...

Government dithering over stamp duty is set to cause an even worse crash than we were headed for. The problem is this: Some journalists got ...

Hold on, don't shoot the messenger, I am only commenting on this survey conducted by Professor Jacqueline Scott of Cambridge university....

I know, I know, you must think I am mad, and I have to say I see your point, but I have just bought £130 of Northern Rock shares anyway. The...

I have to say I have heard a few snippets of what Richard Dawkins has had to say on the subject of religion, but never quite realised what a...

You will not have read this in any of the national news papers but Gordon Brown has been declared bankrupt. Personally I feel sorry for him....

Please don't. There are fashionable diseases, like AIDS or breast cancer, then there are unfashionable ones like prostate cancer, malari...

Well, the worst you say say about Barry George is that he is a bit odd, which combined wit the fact that he lived near Jill Dando about sums...

The Nationwide building society has released their latest price survey indicating the largest drop in house prices in a single year since th...

The Labour party is at war, according to this article in today's Daily Telegraph as bitter recriminations fly after David Miliband'...

According to a comment by greygeek77 (who alas does not allow viewing of his profile and so I can't find his blog to link to it) on a p...