Articles tagged Michael Ancram:

Top Ten Reasons Michael Ancram Should be Taken Outside & Shot

  • 6 Sep 2007

Yesterday afternoon I asked for suggestions for a Top Ten List of Reasons Why Michael Ancram Should Be Taken Outside And Shot. Here is the final list... Number 10: So he knows how the grouse feel. Number 9: Because we need to discourage the aristocracy from overbreeding. ...

Why Can't These Dinosaurs Depart the Stage

  • 4 Sep 2007

Before the last election Lynton Crosby told us all that we should ask ourselves every morning: "What am I going to do today to help the Conservative Party win the next election?" These sentiments would of course be entirely lost on the Fourteenth Marquis of Lothian, who has le...

New Statesman Diary: DD the Nutter from Grandstand

  • 18 May 2006

Oh to be a member of the non-political classes. I was at a dinner party over the weekend and was asked what I made of the candidates in the Tory leadership contest. I started to talk about David Davis when someone piped up: "Isn't he that religious nutter who used to ...