Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: Is The Telegraph Stark Staring Bonkers?
- 4 Jul 2014
My company, Biteback Publishing, is five years old this week. Happy birthday to us. For any small publisher to make it to five years is a minor miracle in today’s publishing environment, especially when you have companies like Amazon apparently about to tell us that we’re not ...
ConHome Diary: I Stand By What I Said - Andy Coulson Was Good At His Job
- 27 Jun 2014
I won’t be joining those who want to dance on Andy Coulson’s grave. Back in September 2010 I wrote a blogpost for which I have since been widely ridiculed. It was headlined ‘COULSON’S ACCUSERS CAN GO TO HELL’. It started: “Andy Coulson is bloody good at his job. That’s why...
Con Home Diary: Tebbit Names His Preferred Successor to Cameron
- 20 Jun 2014
The Prime Minister’s pledge to have a third of his government replete with female ministers by the time of the next election is looking rather unlikely to be met. Seven government departments still have no female ministers whatsoever. He may well put that right in the forthcom...
ConHome Diary: The Ten Bills in Prime Minister Dale's Queen's Speech
- 6 Jun 2014
It comes to something when the measure in the Queen’s Speech which grabs most headlines is a 5p plastic bag tax. Back in the 1980s and 1990s there would be between 18 and 23 bills in the Gracious speech. In this one there were eleven. Now, don’t get me wrong, I rather like the...
ConHome Diary: Alex Salmond: "If the BBC Was On Fire, I Wouldn't Piss On it"
- 30 May 2014
First of all an apology. Several of you have been in touch to express your disappointment that this column has been less smutty of late, compared to its previous standards. I suspect you won’t have cause to complain this week. Others might though… * Apparently Alex Salmond and...
ConHome Diary: How Can I Vote Conservative on Thursday?
- 16 May 2014
I face a real dilemma. I opened my postal vote yesterday but I just can’t bring myself to vote Conservative. The reason is simply that Marta Andreassen is the fourth placed candidate on the ballot paper for the Tories. And one place above her is Richard Ashworth, a lovely man,...
ConHome Diary: What Will Cameron Be Remembered For?
- 9 May 2014
Now I know Boris Johnson has never won an award for attention to detail, but here is one detail will need to take on board if he really intends to stand at the next general election, as he surely must. In order to be selected as a Conservative candidate you actually need to be...
ConHome Diary: Stop Being Nasty to Nigel!
- 2 May 2014
The best party of the week was held in David Davis’s House of Commons billet. Or so I am told. It was held in honour of Nigel Evans’ return to the House of Commons. MPs of all parties were in attendance. It was just as well Sir George Young had restored the whip the previous d...
ConHome Diary: A Week of Doing Nothing
- 27 Apr 2014
I’ve spent this week in Norfolk on holiday. I’ve done very little apart from read, play with my dogs and watch 27 episodes of a brilliant US TV series called COVERT AFFAIRS. I’ve barely spoken to anyone apart from my partner and even turning on Sky News has been something I’ve...
ConservativeHome Diary: Interviewing Nigel Evans & When a Cabinet Minister Resigns
- 18 Apr 2014
Was I too hard on Sarah Wollaston in last week’s column? I’ve been asking this question ever since a rather terse tweet from the Totnes MP, which said something like: “Iain Dale has suggested I should examine my role in the Nigel Evans case, so I have.” Strangely, the tweet ha...