Monthly Archives: April 2010

On Monday, I participated in a debate at BBC Radio Northampton.  Designed to focus on the Corby Constituency, it featured the incumbent MP and Minister Phil Hope, a nameless Lib-Dem, and myself.  I was standing in for our candidate Louise … Continue reading →

I think that was Tony Blair’s line.  But even he could be right occasionally – especially when he was stating the bloomin’ obvious! As flights were cancelled to Straz this last week (they’re now saying that atmospheric concentrations of volcanic … Continue reading →

As Nick Clegg’s star appears to rise, it is entirely right that other parties should draw attention to the damaging nature of Lib-Dem policies.  We in the Conservative Party have pointed out that the Lib-Dems supported the defunct EU Constitution; … Continue reading →

Little did I think that the sight of con trails in a clear sky would lift the spirits, but lo and behold they did, on this first morning since the lifting of the volcanic ash flight ban.  Two trails, pale … Continue reading →

Consider the following quote, from no less a personage than the European Commission’s Director-General of Transport, Matthias Ruete. “(We) should not rely on a single source of evidence ….. The science behind the model we are running at the moment … Continue reading →

It may be, of course, that this will be an X-Factor election, and voters will go for Nick Clegg because of his fresh face and his nice smile.  But on the basis that there may be a few punters out … Continue reading →

Funny, isn’t it, that you always think of the best rebuttals the day after? During that TV debate, Gordon Brown’s most telling (and repeated) points were the £6 billion which he said the Tories were “taking out of the economy”; … Continue reading →

We’ve now seen the second report on the CRU leaked e-mails scandal, and guess what – it says much the same as the first one, and exactly what we’d predicted.  Lord Oxburgh and his committee found that Phil Jones and … Continue reading →

The Conservative Manifesto contains a bundle of great policies, but for my money, the best of the bunch (apart from our commitments on the EU) is Michael Gove’s education policy.   The first step in solving a problem is to … Continue reading →

The big news of the first week of the Campaign was the National Insurance issue, and the endorsement by 100+ businessmen of the Conservative plan partly to abandon Labour’s proposed NI hike.  Soon afterwards, if less prominently, a London business … Continue reading →

There are an estimated two hundred thousand people held in appalling and brutal conditions in the North Korean Gulags — that’s around 1% of the population.  Inmates are worked until they die, and life expectancy is short.  All those terrible … Continue reading →

I have tried – I really have tried, believe me – to avoid commenting on the scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.  But my sense of moral indignation has finally got the better of me. What tipped me over the … Continue reading →

I hate to admit it, but more and more frequently I’m finding myself supporting the European Commission.  This is generally because the parliament, driven by a toxic mix of left-wing ideology and obsessive euro-integrationism, tries to take Commission proposals and … Continue reading →

Nearly two thousand years ago, Saint Paul was travelling along the Road to Damascus to persecute the Christians there, when he was struck blind (temporarily) by a bright light from the sky.  He became convinced of the error of his … Continue reading →