Tories and Northern Ireland

I notice that, finally, consideration is being given to whether the Conservative Party should be fully invested in Northern Ireland, and what sort of interaction there should be between the party and the (inaccurately described) province.  I’ve written about...

Jeff Peel, Reg Empey and A Clockwork Orange pt 1

Burgess wrote in introduction to the 1986 edition of his gruesome masterpiece, titled A Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good or evil is “a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and...

Tory UUP alliance

Just because something would be good for the terminally godawful Ulster Unionist Party doesn’t mean it would be good for either the Conservative Party or the cause of secular, mainstream centre right politics. If the sticking point in the current discussions is...

UUP / Conservative Talks

I don’t like it.  I don’t like it one little bit, and I’m only going to say one thing on the issue of the UUP / Conservative Talks. I joined the Conservative party because they offered something different and better from the tribal madness of...