Articles tagged Diary:
ConservativeHome Diary Week 7: Here's an Election Winning Idea!
- 24 May 2013
I’m not quite sure what has happened to the Bow Group. It seems to have disappeared up its own backside, putting out daily press releases which seem designed to undermine the Conservative Party leadership at every opportunity. I remember when it considered itself a pseudo thi...
ConservativeHome Diary Week 6: Who Are The Harlots of British Politics?
- 19 May 2013
Back in 2009 I published Nigel Farage’s autobiography. Not a single bookshop chain would stock it. Booksellers have always been of a leftish persuasion and they proved impossible to shift. In late 2011 we published an updated version, called Flying Free, which contained three...
ConservativeHome Diary Week 5: Does Sir Alex Read Hansard?
- 10 May 2013
The Independent on Sunday “Diary columnist” Matthew Bell has come up with an interesting theory as to why I have bought a house in Norfolk. Apparently it’s got nothing to do with the scenery or the fact that Broadland is the most peaceful part of the whole country. No, it’s b...
ConservativeHome Diary Week 4: Some Well Meant Advice for John Hayes & Justine Greening
- 3 May 2013
So, with county council elections only five days away, it was good to see Croydon Conservatives spending last Saturday campaigning in neighbouring Surrey and helping their neighbouring Conservatives do as well as they possibly could. What’s that I hear you saying? They weren’t...
ConservativeHome Diary Week 3: Theresa May & Little Miss Popular
- 26 Apr 2013
I’ve never seen Theresa May as a political risk taker, but she certainly seem to be placing all her chips on red in her bid to rid us of the turbulent priest, Abu Qatada. As far as her political reputation goes it really is s*** or bust. If, in the end, he is plonked in steera...
ConservativeHome Diary Week 2: People Watching & What Did Ed Miliband Say to Lord Ashcroft?
- 19 Apr 2013
One of the great pleasures in life is people watching. There’s nothing I like better than to sit in Central Lobby in Parliament and just watch the world go by. Just seeing who is meeting whom can be very educational. And so it was at St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday. Who shou...
ConservativeHome Diary Week 1: Cameron & Pritchard & Friends of Dorothy
- 12 Apr 2013
Each Friday I am writing a diary column for ConservativeHome. It’s posted there at 8.30, and will appear here around 2.30 the same day. I hope you enjoy it. Lovely graphic they’ve come up with, don’t you think? Makes me feel 30 again! David Cameron seems to be embarking on a...
Who Do You Think You are Kidding, Mrs Merkel?
- 21 Jan 2013
Someone told me a good yarn yesterday (I have no idea how true it is) about our beloved Prime Minister and his relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Apparently the two of them aren’t beyond taking the piss out of each other. It all started, apparently, while they ...
Diary: Could I Be a Standup Comedian?
- 8 Oct 2011
Well, that’s the party conference season over and done with for another year. I’m beginning to question the point of them to be honest. I went to all three this year for work related reasons and looking back, and given the choice, I wouldn’t have bothered with any of t...
Thursday Diary: Notes From Norfolk
- 4 Aug 2011
SATURDAY I am so looking forward to this week. We’re staying with friends, Keith & Pepi Simpson, in Reepham. It’s meant to be a bit of a holiday but seeing as we’re househunting in Norfolk and I also have to spend a day in the EDP archives researching my new book on Norwi...