Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: From a Spanish Poolside, Cecil Parkinson's Purple Head & Theresa May's Enemies
- 22 Jul 2016
Not that I intend to inspire any jealousy with this column, but I’m writing it beside a swimming pool in the Spanish mountains overlooking a lake. I normally write four of five ‘chunks’ in my columns so I am deciding to reward myself with a swim after each chunk is finished. T...
Attitude Column: Why Good Sex Education is Needed
- 17 Jul 2016
The following paragraph contains possible too much information. I must have been around 12 or 13, I suppose, when I got out of bed and crept into my parents’ bedroom. “Mum, I think I’ve wet the bed,” I whispered. She got out of bed, grabbed some new sheets and ripped the old ...
ConHome Diary: Theresa May & DD - Starting As They Mean To Go On
- 15 Jul 2016
As I start writing this column, Theresa May is embarking on the second part of her reshuffle. She’s certainly hit the ground running and no one, can say, especially George Osborne, that she hasn’t been decisive in her initial choices. In her initial speech outside Number Ten I...
ConHome Diary: So It's A Tory All Woman Shortlist!
- 8 Jul 2016
I was at a party on Wednesday night celebrating the 60th birthday of a Tory Party politician. Oh alright then, it was Andrew Mitchell. It was quite a do. I was amused to be approached at one point by a veteran of David Davis’s leadership of 2005 who was looking rather pleased ...
Attitude Column: I'm Just Sooooo Offended!
- 7 Jul 2016
“I’ve never been so offended in all my life.” How many times have we heard that increasingly irritating phrase in recent times? Being offended has almost become a national sport in this country. The slightest off colour remark can provoke howls of outrage from people who ought...
ConHome Diary: Initial Thoughts on The Most Momentous Day in My Adult Political Life
- 24 Jun 2016
I sit here in my Leicester Square hotel room. It’s 6.34 in the morning on Friday and a new dawn has broken, has it not? I’ve just had the privilege of presenting LBC’s seven hour referendum results show. I ought to be dead on my feet but I’m not remotely tired. I feel a profo...
Attitude Column: Why I Love America
- 23 Jun 2016
I first went to the United States in the summer of 1987 and it’s been a love affair ever since. I feel in love with the country’s vastness, its variety and its people. I admire what it stands for, I admire its history and, yes, I admire its culture. Because, you see, America ...
Attitude Column: Can I Persuade You to Become Gay?
- 22 Jun 2016
One of the questions gay people are often asked is “if you could be turned straight, would you want to be?” My reply is to counter the question with another question: “if you could be turned gay, would you want to be?” Answer comes there none. It’s a preposterous question, ass...
Attitude Column: Why Gay People Should Vote In Exactly the Same Way As Straights
- 20 Jun 2016
I hope everyone reading this article realises that if we vote to leave the EU in the June 23rd referendum, anyone with a whiff of a limp wrist will be forced to have sex with the opposite sex, equal marriage will be revoked and bullying of LGBT schoolchildren will be encourage...
ConHome Diary: The Truth About Gove & Health Insurance & What I'll Be Doing on Referendum Night
- 18 Jun 2016
As I write this I am watching a recording of Michael Gove’s appearance in front of a Question Time audience. One of the questioners was a young woman who asked him about a book he had written more than ten years ago in which he supported an insurance based NHS. This came from ...