A Conservative's blog

I see that Russell Brand has resigned from his show on BBC Radio 2 and Jonathan Ross has been suspended. This all stems from phone calls to ...

Apparently the EU has insisted that Lord Peter Mandelson did nothing wrong as far as his relationship with Oleg Deripaska is concerned. The ...

Markets around the world look very positive over the frankly massive bank bailouts world wide. However we have two issues. The first is exce...

The government admits defeat on 42 days, but wants to keep a bill in its back pocket to bring out at a moments notice to blackmail parliamen...

Prudence is our watchword. I knew it was claptrap at the time, and I screamed it from the rooftops. I, and indeed anyone with a brain, could...

That is of course the £500 billion question. I suppose the answer depends on what you mean by "work". Will it bring on days of end...

My position is clear. Sir Ian Blair should not have resigned. That is a tragic error. Left leaning twits have accused the Conservative party...

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...