BBC seeks angry right-winger to come on show
She didn't quite put it like that, but the BBC researcher who phoned me this morning basically wanted to know if I would be prepared to go...
Read this entry »Articles written by Douglas Carswell (Con)
What if Gordon was still inside the Treasury?
Remember how Gordon Brown walked out of Downing Street after losing the General Election? But what if he turned...
Read this entry » Euro judges see sense – for now
It seems like the loony Euro judges in Strasbourg have decided to see sense today and allow the British state to remove a handful terror...
Read this entry » Don Porter in today’s Telegraph: a must read for every Conservative
"Every year at conference" writes Don Porter in today's Telegraph, "Margaret Thatcher spent two hours receiving cheques from local treasurers. ...
Read this entry » Sarkozy or Hollande?
A French presidential election is due in a couple of weeks. Should one care? Will the outcome change anything? Not, I suspect, if incumbent...
Read this entry » Happy Easter
Today I'm supervising an Easter egg hunt here in Essex.Forgive me for not blogging, but if I do, I fear the three year olds might scoff all the...
Read this entry » Back to the 1970s?
Twitter might not have existed, but back in the 1970s there were plenty of people in Whitehall who believed that Britain needed to have...
Read this entry » Lessons on liberalisation from Germany
From today, you’ll need to have worked for someone else for two years, rather than just one, before you can drag them to an...
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Michael Gove is NOT planning new A levels
"Michael Gove planning new A levels" run the headlines. Surely the precise opposite is in fact the case? The whole point about today's A...
Read this entry »The April Fool’s gag that nearly got me
I almost fell for it. That April Fool's gag about the government requiring internet companies to pass on our personal details so they can access them without a...
Read this entry »Restore faith in politics? Only direct democracy can do it
A few years ago, we Conservatives were feeling our way towards a new open politics agenda. First we allowed every Londoner...
Read this entry »But where’s the growth agenda?
In light of all the other stuff dominating the headlines, it might seem churlish to ask, but where the heck is the growth agenda? Over the past two years, about...
Read this entry »The rising tide of anti-politics
So. After Bradford West, does anyone still think that this anti-politics mood is just a passing phase? Anyone still dispute that the established...
Read this entry »Whitehall, not Labour, is the biggest threat to the public service reform agenda
David Cameron today announces plans to give people a legal right to choose what public services they get. He promises to end “the closed state monopoly...
Read this entry »Whose idea of justice?
The Ministry of Justice today unveils proposals for tougher community sentences. This will, we are told, mean stricter sentences, the wider use of electronic...
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