Articles tagged Policy:
WATCH: Interview With Triggernometry
- 29 Jul 2018
This is an interview I did recently for the triggernometry podcast and Youtube channel. It’s 70 minutes long and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The interviewers are two comedians, Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster. We talk about my career, the power of radio, the NHS, immigratio...
A Visit to the Brilliant Ebbsfleet Academy & The Difference a Good Head Teacher Can Make
- 28 Jan 2016
When I was a parliamentary candidate I used to enjoy visiting local schools. I always learned something. Of course academies that time were a mere glint in Andrew Adonis’s eye. On Wednesday I visited an academy for the first time. It came about following an invitation from on...
Attitude Column: Why Prostitution Should Be Legalised
- 26 Feb 2014
An episode of the final series of the superb Danish politico-drama Borgen concerned itself with the vexed subject of legalising prostitution. Like the legalisation of drugs, it’s a subject politicians shy away from debating in real life. Most people labour under the illusion ...
Attitude Column: It's Not Just Women Who Are Victims of Domestic Violence
- 23 Feb 2014
I’m lucky. I have been with my partner for more than eighteen years and in that time we have barely exchanged a cross word. We’ve never had a full scale row. ‘Yeah, right’, I can hear you saying. But it’s true. Of course we have the odd disagreement, but I can’t recall a singl...
The Intolerance of Climate Change Zealots
- 3 Jun 2013
This evening on my LBC show we discussed Ed Davey’s outrageous idea that newspapers and broadcasters should refrain from giving a platform to climate change sceptics. How very ‘liberal’ of him. I remember at 18 Doughty Street back in 2007 I phoned Greenpeace to invite them to ...
Why The Right Needs To Spread the Gospel of Low Taxes
- 18 Feb 2013
I have always believed that a low tax economy is always going to be more successful than a high tax one. We now seem to be in a period where all three main political parties seem quite happy to be entering a competition to see who can come up with the whackiest ideas for impos...
Remember You're a Conservative, Mr Hunt
- 11 Feb 2013
When I heard that the new much needed social care reform were going to be paid for by raiding the Inheritance Tax tin, I was frankly incredulous No one who calls themselves a Conservative should have any truck with increasing the burden of Inheritance Tax. It is a tax on aspir...
Imagine the Outcry if Stafford Had Been A Private Hospital
- 6 Feb 2013
I’ve spent the last 90 minutes watching the Prime Minister’s statement on the Francis Report into the terrible goings on at Stafford Hospital. What was allowed to happen there was terrible, and an indictment of all those who sat by and watched this catastrophe developing. Let’...
Equal Marriage: An Open Letter to MPs
- 4 Feb 2013
This is a letter I am emailing to MPs of all parties this morning. Dear Member of Parliament, Many of you have already decided to support the Equal Marriage Bill. This letter is addressed to those of you who remain undecided or who intend to oppose it. Back in 2003 I became...
Why I Would Divert Childcare Funds to Sink Estates
- 29 Jan 2013
OK, you might say I don’t have a right to a view on this. I’m male, gay, and don’t have children, but I am a taxpayer, so that surely gives me a right. Anyway, deep breath, here goes. Why, dear reader, why is it that middle class parents think that the rest of us should subsi...