Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: Boris's Big Speech, No Sex Please We're Aussie MPs & Why Despite Brexit Europe Is Still Part Of Us
- 16 Feb 2018
Everyone gets rather overexcited whenever Boris Johnson makes a speech. The Westminster lobby do their normal thing and judge it through the prism of whether they can spot any split with Theresa May, even though they are fully aware that the whole speech has been pre-approved ...
ConHome Diary: Pardons, Apologies, Soubers & Corbyn on Crime
- 9 Feb 2018
I’ve always liked Anna Soubry and I completely respect the fact that she holds very strong views on the European issue, which are in contract to my own. However, as an elected Conservative MP, you are a participant on politics, not a commentator on it. Her outburst on Newsnigh...
ConHome Diary: Vote for Widders, The Mancock App & Collective Responsibility
- 2 Feb 2018
Ann Widdecombe needs your vote. For those of you who don’t watch Celebrity Big Brother, she’s in the final and voting finishes this evening. It would be great to see her win it, and confound her critics. If you want to vote for her dial 090 20 44 24 03. I keep trying to put...
ConHome Diary: Doing God's Work with the Devil's Money & Why Life's a Bitch
- 26 Jan 2018
The Cybernats really are the most vicious trolls on the internet. On Wednesday I highlighted a story which had appeared in most of the day’s newspapers that Nicola Sturgeon had ordered that the Union Jack could only be flown from Scottish Government buildings on Remembrance Su...
ConHome Diary: Conservatives Are Failing to Make the Case for Capitalism
- 19 Jan 2018
The collapse of a company like Carillion was always going to result in Jeremy Corbyn attacking the whole concept of ‘contracting out’ – or ‘privatisation’ as he would say. He conveniently ignores the inconvenient fact that it wasn’t Carillion’s public sector contracts which ca...
ConHome Diary: A Reshuffle With No Narrative & Why No Jobs for JRM & Kwasi Kwarteng?
- 12 Jan 2018
“It’s all going terribly well, isn’t it?” was my opener to a friend in Downing Street on the afternoon of the Cabinet reshuffle. I was going to devote this whole column to an in-depth analysis of the reshuffle but I think enough has been said already. Paul Goodman’s analysis o...
ConHome Diary: How I Know Ann Widdecombe Snores & How I Became a Victim of Crime
- 5 Jan 2018
If I had a pound for every time Ann Widdecombe has said in my presence that she’s never, ever, EVAH appear on Celebrity Big Brother, then I’d certainly have more money than the undoubtedly large fee which persuaded her to do it this year! Between 2001 and 2010 our theatre sho...
ConHome Diary: Weebles Wobble But They Don't Fall Down
- 15 Dec 2017
It’s difficult to know what the consequences of Wednesday evening’s government defeat in the Commons will be. It certainly undermines Theresa May as she goes into the next stage of negotiations and probably means that an agreement needs to be reached a little earlier than befo...
ConHome Diary: Would You Like a '**** Jeremy Corbyn' T Shirt?
- 1 Dec 2017
Following his ill-judged retweets of three Britain First tweets, Donald Trump is now turning his ire onto Theresa May. He tweeted yesterday: “@Theresa_May don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive radical Islamic terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We a...
ConHome Diary: The Housing Minister Should Be In The Cabinet & Why Brexiteers Need to Up Their Game in Exposing Remain Lies
- 24 Nov 2017
Well that wasn’t exactly a knicker-gripping budget, was it? In a week’s time if you asked people if they could remember one measure announced in a budget, the abolition of stamp duty for first time buyers for properties under £300k is probably all that they will remember. Ther...