A Conservative's blog

I have been thinking about this. London 2012 is of course only half over, we still have the fantastic spectacle of the Paralympics to go, bu...

I know people will think that I don't believe the numbers because I don't want to. Well, it's not that I don't believe the...

Apparently Francesco Schettino, Captain of the cruise liner Costa Concordia did not abandon ship, he tripped and fell into a lifeboat. How...

We have heard allot about David Cameron wielding the veto in European negotiations for the UK's national interests as far as our financi...

The BBC has an article entitled: World's 'smallest steam engine' built in Germany , except if you read the article, it is obviou...

I want to point that Nabila Ramdani seemed to make it her business as a French citizen of Algerian decent to keep popping up on places like ...

There is now a blog post over at the Telegraph here, by Katharine Birbalsingh who claims to have read my blog post but clearly had not prop...

Police are apparently not investigating a Conservative activist (me) for not calling Nabila Ramdani a whore. That said you would not get tha...

That might sound like an odd statement for a rational person to say who has studied Physics to university level, but it is true. Today we...

I am just watching BBC's Newsnight. Ed Balls has just said that the VAT rise from 17.5% to 20% will cost the squeezed middle £450. Did h...

Well, that is a whole matter of debate, but what I can say is this: Birmingham is no longer quite the industrial hub it once was. The proble...

So, in a move to deflect growing anger of the News of the Wor;ld phone hacking scandal, 200 innocent journalists are to lose their jobs whil...

No. That would cost the taxpayer millions. What taxpayers should do is just boycott the tabloids, and anyone who advertises with them. It wo...

As readers will know from my last article I had an opinion of journalist that was low, of print journalists doubly so and tabloid ones quad...

I have a very very low opinion of journalists, from the fantasist (Robert Fisk) to the great fictional writers (Johann Hari), the faux I hat...

Ryan Giggs has been named as the footballer who took out a super injunction (via Schillings, lawyers to the rich and dubious) to prevent det...

Apparently the world has not ended. It certainly does not seem to have ended here in Mid Sussex on the 21st of may. (Well, to be fair if you...

Is the argument that is often proffered by the Likud in the Israeli Knesset and the Ultra Likud who sit on Capitol hill in Washington. This ...

Not for the first time, Ken Clarke appears to have been at the centre of some controversy, so I thought I would ask the following: All of ...

We have taken wards that were safe as houses for the Liberal Democrats! In short, Conservative hold in Mid Sussex with increased majority. M...