Even a fading Farage can deny Cameron victory
UKIP may have peaked but the Eurosceptic party is still likely to take enough Tory votes to catapult Ed Miliband into Downing Street
- 2 March 2014
The car smoking ban: A cure worse than the disease
The Left has always seen the independent family as a ‘bourgeois’ obstacle to total state control. That is what the car smoking ban is all about - political interference in private family life
- 4 February 2014
Time to leave: British Labour grandee informs countryfolk
It is increasingly likely that by 2015 Britain will have a left-wing government with an undiminished appetite for people-harming experiments that are imposed in an arbitrary way. The flooding of Somerset is just the beginning
- 3 February 2014
How the Tories can become the party of the under-25s
Far from being 'alien' to young voters, the Conservative party has the scope to become the natural party of the under-25s
- 29 January 2014
New research shows UK Anglicans still Conservative, Muslim vote is Labour's to lose
Ordinary Anglicans veer to the Right, regardless of the liberal-Left reputation of many Bishops, while Muslims veer strongly to the Left. This doesn't mean religion is decisive in UK politics, but it does mean politicians need to take heed
- 26 January 2014
Conservatives should listen to grassroots, but warily
Activists of any party (democratic or otherwise) can be the most committed, smartest and most helpful of allies. But among them there are also blinkered dogmatists and a fair smattering of narcissists who harm the cause they claim to support
- 14 January 2014
Labour conference McBride ordure show
Just when the comrades were about to mumble through ‘The Red Flag’, Damian McBeast dumps a whole load of ordure right over the party
- 23 September 2013
Ed Miliband the "vulture" opportunist. Or not? Three great thoughts from the Left
[Miliband] "is neither hunter nor prey, he is scavenger. He is a political vulture. Mission creep? His mission is all about creeping"
- 8 September 2013
The future is not bright if the future is purple
Purple has had a great innings and done some batting for UKIP but despite its advantages as both a halfway-house between Labour and the Conservatives it fails to confer the right message in terms of values, ideology and loyalty
- 10 August 2013
Labour councillor under fire after refusing to assist UKIP member resident
A Labour councillor is potentially in breach of his council's code of conduct after refusing to work with a resident he discovered is now a UKIP candidate
- 4 July 2013
Ed Miliband: Labour's Achilles' heel
By accepting Tory spending cuts, Labour will be left to fight the election with its Achilles’ heel: Ed Miliband
- 25 June 2013
UKIP slammed for "utterly absurd" Labour pact
UKIP's local coalition with Labour and the Lib Dems has attracted stark condemnation from conservative activists
- 24 May 2013
King Edward is treating voters like subjects
Labour's man who would be king continues to display the same kind of arrogance he accuses his political opponents of
- 11 May 2013
Sir Alex Ferguson – Arch capitalist
Sir Alex Ferguson is famously a staunch supporter of the Labour Party. But judge a man by his deeds, not his words alone
- 11 May 2013
UKIP's rise exposes language barriers
It is clear that Westminster is struggling to understand what the country is saying
- 3 May 2013
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