Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: Are Tory MPs About to Commit Knuckle Dragging Acts of Masturbatory Self Indulgence?
- 21 Nov 2014
I’ve lost count of the number of people who have come up to me in the last couple of weeks and in whispered tones asked if I think there will be 46 MPs writing to Graham Brady after the Rochester & Strood by-election. I look at them as if they have lost complete leave of t...
ConHome Diary: Andrew Neil Should Have Been Offered 'Newsnight'
- 14 Nov 2014
I used to do a lot of speaking to local Conservative Associations but since the last election I have only done one – and that was in Witney. Well, when the PM asks, it’s a bit difficult to say no, isn’t it? I thought it was worth at least a Knighthood, but hey, I understand I ...
ConHome Diary: Theresa May - Buy! Buy! Buy!
- 7 Nov 2014
I don’t know about you but I find this new trend of MPs reporting each other to the head of the Metropolitan Police absolutely despicable. Labour’s John Mann is the worst offender by far, but this week it was Tory MP Justin Tomlinson who reported Sadiq Khan for allegedly looki...
ConHome Diary: Grappling With Sadiq Khan in a Dark Room (And Other Stories)
- 31 Oct 2014
I don’t know what Ed Miliband thinks he’s playing at but he seems to be subliminally, and probably unintentionally, urging Labour voters in Rochester & Strood to vote UKIP. As a short terms strategy it might well be a jolly jape to give the Tories a bloody nose, but he sho...
ConHome Column: Happy Birthday Guido!
- 24 Oct 2014
Tuesday night saw the tenth anniversary dinner party to celebrate ten years of the Guido Fawkes blog. There was something rather incongruous about the fact that it was held deep in the heart of clubland and that those attending were a rather good sample of the Westminster esta...
ConHome Diary: What Lady T Said About Heseltine's Maiden Speech
- 17 Oct 2014
Our national broadcasters have done something I never thought possible. They’ve re-created the ‘closed shop’ and told the political parties to comply with their general debate wishes or else. Not that they have defined the ‘else’. They’ve more or less presented the party leade...
ConHome Diary: The LibDems Seem To Think It'll be Alright On The Night
- 10 Oct 2014
Well thank God that’s over. Three weeks of party conferences, plus the Scottish Referendum, is quite enough even for someone as politically geeky as your humble servant. Whatever the plural of knackered is, that’s how most political journalists feel. I’ve done 39 hours of broa...
ConHome Diary: A Cock & Bull Story
- 3 Oct 2014
How quickly we forget. Spied walking into the ICC was Scottish Office Minister David Mundell, who was immediately offered a union jack flag by one of the myriad of people determined to press their wares on unsuspecting conference go-ers. Mundell, however, was having none of it...
ConHome Diary: Don't Even Ask, to Get On My Top 100 People on the Right List!
- 26 Sep 2014
I write this on the train back from Manchester having spent three days at the Labour Party conference. It was an odd affair. It was the quietest and most downbeat pre-election conference I think I have ever been to. Try as they might, they just couldn’t get the atmosphere goin...
ConHome: Despite the'No' Vote, Cameron Is Still On The Skids
- 19 Sep 2014
The devil in me really wanted the Yes Campaign to win. Not because I would necessarily have supported them, but because it would have been fascinating to see the fallout from a Yes result. We’ll never know now, but would the dire warnings of the Better Together campaign really...