A Conservative's blog

No doubt all have heard of the sad death this morning of Ivan Cameron, David and Sarah's oldest son at 6 years old. It is the normal ord...

According to various papers, including the Sunday Telegraph , Gordon Brown is to ban 100% mortgages. There are of course a number of observa...

Jacqui Smith, the alleged Home Secretary has been in some difficulties over her claiming that her main home in her constituency is in fact n...

You will no doubt have heard the controversy over Paul Moore's allegations which caused Sir James Crosby to resign as vice chairman of t...

And this is of course the problem. No one has any idea, nor will they for weeks, possibly months. Who knows what horse trading will go on to...

There is a troubling story carried by the BBC. It is a tale of the deeply sad demise of 8 year old Sophie Waller. If you read the article on...

It is not a pleasing thought, but that is apparently Ed Balls' view of the economy. So much for an end to boom and bust, or indeed how w...

I am horrified by the damage that has been caused by the wildfires in Australia, and very troubled that some may have been started deliberat...

Or rather, forget about the gay adoption issue for the moment, as you read this story on the front page of today's Daily Mail about gra...

Labour are really tanking in the polls. The latest Comres poll (They had the Conservatives and Labour as close as 1% 2 months ago) shows a 1...

Yes, get your Labour Peers here, while they're hot! Very useful if you have bags of cash and need the odd bill amending. The Sunday Time...

Well it depends on what you may think the shock is. For me it is that Channel 4 seem to have gathered some evidence of Hamas war crimes, as...

It has to be said that Barack Obama is one hell of an orator. I can't think of an orator in his class, and boy are there some examples y...

To hit your taxes soon, The Bank Bailout II: The Sequel! The last one was so popular that producer Gordon Brown thought he would bring the s...

I have to say I am a bit gob smacked. There has been much rumour about, and to be fair it had reached a point where it was inevitable, but I...

Two polls are out in the Sunday papers, one in the Sunday Times and one in the Independent on Sunday. Both are covered on PoliticalBetting ....

So said Jeff Kolodjay, a passenger aboard a US Airways flight that ditched in the Hudson River. Well, any landing you can walk away from is ...

Apparently the Government is going to announce tomorrow that the third runway at Heathrow is to go ahead. Bonkers. The road traffic around H...

Gordon Brown is totally out of touch with what hard pressed people are actually spending their money on. At today's Prime ministers ques...

Gordon Brown's second poll bounce has ended. Politicalbetting.com has this , whilst the poll is in the Times here . The raw numbers are:...