by nabidana | Sep 7, 2017 | Conservatives, politics
Let’s first be clear that if Rees Mogg is the answer, the question has been poorly posed or over-constructed. He will not be leader of the Conservative Party unless something very stupid happens. His Catholicism, quite apart from making it difficult for him to...
by nabidana | Apr 24, 2017 | Conservatives, Corbyn, Election 2017
There’s something about a general election, particularly one called by a strident Prime Minister. This election, which I hope will be decisively won by the Conservative Party, has made conservatives and democrats ask themselves difficult and important questions...
by nabidana | Oct 5, 2016 | Conservatives
In the twenty years since I joined the Conservative Party (and I am only thirty-six now, so imagine how insufferable that was), I have only expressed outright disapprobation with the direction of the party once – when Iain Duncan Smith was leader, after his...
by nabidana | Nov 23, 2015 | Conservatives
The catastrophe of the death by suicide of a young conservative activist earlier this year has opened the Conservative Party to some disbelief and ridicule, particularly in the party’s handling of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding both the...
by nabidana | Jun 2, 2014 | Conservatives, Europe, politics
“What is one to make of the rise of UKIP?” – asked nobody with any commonsense, ever. That having been said, there are plenty of people with no commonsense desperate to shrinkwrap a simple answer to the problem of the purple and yellow party (by remarkable coincidence...
by nabidana | Apr 6, 2014 | Conservatives, politics
That the newspapers have been keen to hoist Maria Miller, the minister responsible for the shepherding the press regulation legislation from a lamppost for continuing to claim a level of expenses on a mortgage after a favourable change in the lending interest rate is...
