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It would be, to coin a phrase, child-like to summate the debate around the Human Rights Act as one between those in favour of protecting human rights in law, and those against doing so.
At this time last year, I posted a video clip of audiences clapping out the conference season (HERE). This year, I've produced a compilation of membe...
A couple of years ago, I posted some video clips showing how Margaret Thatcher's speech-making became less effective when she stopped using hard copy ...
Ken Clarke continues to demonstrate how out of touch he is on so many levels. He is out of touch with the victims, he is out of touch on how to make our communities safer and he is simply out of touch with the reality faced in today's prison service.
The overwhelming response to David Cameron's conference speech was that, by all accounts, it was terribly underwhelming. But why has the faith in our ...
I'm glad musicians care about stuff like this, I genuinely am. But I really wonder why it is necessary for anyone who isn't involved in the political process to so vehemently stick for or against a party.
When the Prime Minister David Cameron decided to devote a portion of his conference speech to urging us all to pay off our debts, he must have known he'd face a blizzard of criticism from the mainstream economies profession.
Is this really the apogee of British political humour? Jokes about Eric Pickles' weight are cheap, they are easy and worst of all they have been done before, several times.
It was marred by protests, a victim of the standard ministerial gaffes and the final event of the annual season but it was the way that the 2011 Conservative Party Conference clashed with the European economic crisis that made it so significant.
When ordinary Britons woke-up yesterday morning to read the headlines that Cameron was instructing them to promptly pay off their credit card bills, the sound of chokes on cornflakes was heard throughout the land. "How dare that little Tory toff tell me off about my Visa bill?", they thought.
David Cameron was a little misleadingly reported this morning as advising British households to pay back credit card debt. In fact he said that they were doing so and implied that this was a good idea.
It seems to me to be one very large gamble and I'm not entirely sure it will work. In fact, I fear it will simply mean that most people in Britain will end up paying more for poorer quality public services that have been channelled toward the private sector, all through the back door.
David Cameron displayed an astonishing lack of understanding of the banking sector in his interview with Sarah Montague on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Tuesday morning (as I'm afraid did Sarah, given her blinkered obsession with "bonuses").
The Scottish Conservative & Unionist party held a leadership hustings in Manchester on Monday.
In conversation with a small group of the 2010 intake in the early hours of Wednesday morning I was told this little thigh-slapper. Q: What is the co...
David Cameron is one of life's natural optimists. He wants the British people to "summon the appetite to fight for a better future". If material economic gains will only slowly fill the nation's bellies, Mr Cameron will need to offer something alternatively holistic to feed the nation's soul.
