Conservative
Our local councillors who’ve lost their seats must be sighing with relief
An angry text exchange between me and a former Tory councillor after she lost her seat has got me thinking.…
Prepare for Javid vs Sunak in the next Tory leadership contest
In 1992 a young footballer named Dion Dublin left my local team, Cambridge United, to take up one of the…
Is Boris brave enough to stand up to the Nimbys?
In the next few weeks, the government will publish planning reforms designed to simplify the system and free up land…
Conservatives – corporations are not your friend
Amazon is suspending police use of its face-recognition software, HBO Max has pulled Gone With the Wind and Paramount Network…
Labour has proved that it speaks for London – and nowhere else
So, now almost all the votes have been counted — except for those in the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets, where…
The truth about being a politician’s child
It was a Friday morning in 1992, Britain had just had an election, and I was on an ice rink.…
Vladimir Putin's new plan for world domination
Russia is returning as an ideological force in the world – to champion conservative values
What I learned in a Qatari jail cell
This column nearly didn’t appear. Another 24 hours and I would have trumped the late Jeffrey Bernard with the single…
MPs grope men too
It’s not just the women who work at Westminster who can expect to receive unwelcome advances. I should know
David Cameron has lost the countryside
The shires feel deeply abandoned by Cameron and the Conservatives
How Australia's Tony Abbott pulled off a great conservative victory
By conventional wisdom, Tony Abbott should not become Prime Minister of Australia this weekend. He ought to be too conservative,…
