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Two modest proposals from a swivel-eyed loon
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 01:30 PM
Loon, or boon? There have been different times since 1985 (when I joined North Cunninghame Young Conservatives) when Ive felt like both: a loon, when the party goes into one of its spasms of unelectability (why bother? is the dominant feeling at times such as this); boon when Ive delivered leaflets for a good Tory [...]Revealed: how David Cameron and his Bullingdon chums will win the next general election
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 12:16 PM
One thing about Loongate, or Swivelgate or ThePoorManAtHisGate, as the more astute political observers have dubbed it is how it reveals the bold and ambitious two-pronged plan, adopted by Cameron and his team, to win the general election in 2015. The first part of the masterplan centred on the Tory party in Parliament [...]On gay marriage and Europe, David Cameron is far closer to the British public than his critics are
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 11:38 AM
Most of us are familiar with the dreamy sensation of sitting in a carriage on a railway platform waiting for our train to depart. At length, the journey appears to begin and our train in motion. Suddenly, with a bit of a jolt, we realise that its all an optical illusion. Our train is still [...]Gay marriage and David Cameron: We talk about enemies more than we used to
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 11:14 AM
Theres a scene from the first season of the West Wing when Josh Lyman tells President Bartlet: We talk about enemies more than we used to. Its either touching or cloying, depending on your perspective, but either way, it touches on an essential truth of politics: to govern is to make enemies. For better or [...]Richard Beeston: the finest foreign correspondent of his generation
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 11:11 AM
The death of my dear friend Rick Beeston over the weekend has deprived British journalism of one of its finest exponents. From the momentthe fresh-faced young Rick appeared in Beirut during the darkest days of the Lebanese civil war in 1985 (I was charged by the Telegraph foreign desk with the unenviable task of taking [...]The real swivel-eyed loons are inside Number 10
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 10:01 AM
The swivel-eyed loons are surely in Number 10, not outside it. Month after month, David Camerons premiership expose him and his inner circle as even more out of touch than we thought possible. Politics is about working with others in order to change things for a greater good. Yet Camerons close network of friends and [...]Even Trevor Phillips agrees: the intolerant ‘equality’ lobby is choking on its own orthodoxy
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 09:55 AM
Trevor Phillips, former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, is one of the great and good. He is also bright, black and appealingly honest. The fact that he is black matters: it frees Phillips to say things about the drawbacks of multiculturalism, for instance which a white, middle-aged man in his [...]Geoffrey Howe did for Margaret Thatcher – now David Cameron is in his sights
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 09:40 AM
Back in his glory days, Geoffrey Howe managed to separate the Conservative leader, Margaret Thatcher, from her party. Now he seems anxious to separate the Conservative Party from its present leader, David Cameron. Writing in yesterdays Observer, he accused Mr Cameron of cowardice in the face of the Eurosceptic enemy. The Prime Minister, he said, [...]
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