When my family go to Aberdeenshire at Christmas to lay flowers on my father's grave and visit my mother at her care home will we be viewed as Foreigners in a strange land?
- 14 Sep 2014
For the very first time in all the years that I have been involved in politics I am scared. Scared that on Thursday the good people of Scotland will vote with their hearts rather than their heads. Well, how does it affect we English? Will it be along the lines of the political...
Is Boris the next Enoch Powell?
- 13 Sep 2014
I am beginning to wonder whether Boris Johnson will be the next Enoch Powell. A distinguished classicist, self publicist and boat rocking irritant. Both were disillusioned with their parties, both were dangerously unpredictable and had leadership ambitions. To be fair to Powel...
Why is it that Tory backbenchers can be led to slaughter but never made to think?
- 7 Sep 2014
If I was Michael Gove, the Chief Whip, I would summon four people to my office on Monday morning. Jacob Rees Mogg, Adam Afriyie, Andrew Brigden and Jackie Doyle Price. The first three I would accuse of craven, snivelling cowardice and rip them each a new arsehole for their cra...
It is time that decent Conservatives and those who believe in social democracy stand up and fight those parasites who are infecting our party
- 31 Aug 2014
Is Mathew Parris the only sensible commentator to appreciate that Douglas Carswell is a complete and utter fraud? For weeks he has been exasperating Eurosceptics by refusing to rebel and for going on record as saying that Cameron’s European stance was one hundred percent corre...
Dover for the continent Clacton for the incontinent. To win Clacton the Kippers will have to re nobble the care homes
- 28 Aug 2014
I would love to say how we e all predicted that Douglas Carswell would doggie paddle his way to the Kippers. But it would be a lie. Particularly as his close chum, the alarmingly wild eyed MEP Daniel Hannan, rejected Nigel Farage’s heavy petting. I thought perhaps that it mig...
For those Tories who want to get rid of Bercow keep a low profile. Labour will finish the job.
- 22 Aug 2014
John Bercow has nearly reached the point of no return over the appointment of Carol Mills to succeed Sir Robert Rogers as Chief Clerk of the Commons. The Speaker is going to have to decide whether he wishes to remain in his job or be given the pearl handled revolver and bottle...
Recalling that preening posing Tower of Babel will only grandstand our weaknesses and uncertainties
- 21 Aug 2014
Will someone please explain to me why there is this bizarre clamour to recall Parliament? Yes, the Middle East is ablaze and all of us are still in shock that a home grown Brit thug has been party to a depraved act of barbarism. It is all the more chilling be because he is one...
ISIS are already here. Unless we destroy them everything we hold dear will be lost. Military action in the Middle East is inevitable.
- 17 Aug 2014
I have no doubt that in a few weeks time British boots will be back on Middle Eastern sand. To topple an a unpopular leader? To educate women? To restore democracy? No. To protect everything this country stands for. Tolerance, decency and respect for others. And democracy. Las...
Lord protect us the Nige and Bozza circus is coming to town
- 9 Aug 2014
I suppose that it is an elaborate celestial joke that the two politicians who are beloved of the masses because they are ‘normal’ human beings and not infected with the poison of Westminster are two of the most calculating and deeply cynical hucksters the the party system has ...
Baroness Warsi should be a warning to politicians who make appointments for all the wrong reasons
- 6 Aug 2014
I don’t want to be too unkind about poor old Baroness Warsi but her departure was like so much of her political career, a badly timed stunt. The real question that should occupy David Cameron for a nano second is not why she went but why she was ever appointed to high office i...