Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: Wasn't Timmy Mallett Available to Chair Network Rail?
- 26 Jun 2015
Listening to Nick Ferrari interview Nick Clegg yesterday, I started to wonder about his future. I doubt very much he will stand at the next election. It must be pure torture for him to sit in the House of Commons struggling for space alongside the hordes from north of the bord...
ConHome Diary: If the Charleston Shooter Had Been a Muslim...
- 19 Jun 2015
Sometimes you wonder how perfectly sensible politicians score such obvious own goals. How David Lidington thought it was at all sensible to try to persuade Tory MPs that the government should be given full authority to rig the EU referendum is anyone’s guess. The surprise was ...
ConHome Diary: My Strange Dreams About Nigel Farage & Norman Lamb
- 12 Jun 2015
On 4 July I am chairing the first Conservative mayoral hustings for Conservative Way Forward. I’m amused that The Spectator’s Steerpike column is building this up as an Iain Dale v Ivan Massow confrontation. Hey ho. I suppose it might sell a few tickets! As well as Ivan Massow...
ConHome Diary: Why I Will Always Be Grateful to Charles Kennedy
- 5 Jun 2015
A couple of left wing friends of mine are still literally grieving at the election result. It’s really affected them in a bad way. I keep saying they should move on and get over it but the truth is that their reaction, I think, displays a certain arrogance which is more preval...
ConHome Diary: The Tale of Harriet Harman's Fine Pair (Of Shoulder Pads), Zac Goldsmith for London Mayor & Ben Harris-Quinney Suspended From Tory Party
- 29 May 2015
There is a growth industry in this country and it is for very expensive lawyers to send out letters threatening to take people to court for libel. Nick Cohen writes about this in this week’s Spectator ]. He’s been threatened by Carter Ruck for writing a thoroughly researched a...
ConHome Diary: Praise be to Lynton Crosby!
- 22 May 2015
So James Chapman has been recruited by the Chancellor as his Director of Communications. It’s a big loss for the Daily Mail, where he has been an excellent political editor. It will trigger quite a substantial reshuffle in the lobby, which is always amusing to watch. If I was ...
ConHome Diary: Twenty Comments on Election Night
- 8 May 2015
Party leaders say some very odd things. Ed Miliband was interviewed by my LBC colleague Theo Usherwood on the last day of campaigning and was very keen to explain his priorities as prime minister. He said he wouldn’t be thinking of hedge fund managers every day, “I’d be thinki...
ConHome Diary: How Not to Motivate Your Troops
- 3 May 2015
In my latest series of how CCHQ wins friends and influences people, let me bring you this email which was sent to Team 2015 miscreants who, in their opinion hadn’t turned up often enough to campaign for the party in marginal seats… Dear xxx- We’ve been sending you a few e...
New Statesman Diary: Shitting on My Own Doorstep (And On Ken Livingstone)
- 2 May 2015
Seven years ago I wrote a column for GQ predicting that Ed Miliband would succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party. He was Cabinet Office minister at the time. Ever since then, even though his politics and mine are far apart I’ve felt I had something invested in him....
ConHome Diary: Boris Gets on 'All Fours' With Theresa May
- 24 Apr 2015
I can’t pretend that I have read every newspaper every day, but it seems to me that there is one broadsheet that has trumped its rivals every single day, and that’s The Times. Its range and depth are simply unrivalled, and what with its star team of columnists it is unmissable...