Tory Muff and Jeff routine. Caring Cameron feels their pain.
The Tories under David Cameron have become the masters of the conference Mutt and Jeff routine. All week ministerial Muttleys put the boot into big families on welfare, batter burglars, threaten...
View ArticleWho won the phoney war of the independence referendum?
So, who won the referendum phoney war? There was an air of quiet satisfaction among senior Tories at their conference in Birmingham recently. “Wily” Alex Salmond had been put back in his box, I was...
View ArticleThe Bastards Are Back. How the Tories are all eurosceptic now.
It was just like old times. Wednesday's Tory back-bench rebellion over Britain's contribution to the European budget took me back twenty years to Maastricht, John Major and the eurosceptic tormentors...
View ArticleSalmond gets the numbers wrong. But it's all Mike Russell's fault.
“Facts are chiels that winna ding” is one of Alex Salmond's favourite Burns quotes, so it was with particular relish that Labour's education spokesman, Hugh Henry, flung the words in the FMs face on...
View ArticleObama goes to war. It's only a matter of time.
He wasn't as good as he should have been; he won't be as good as he could be; but I still can't help feeling a sense of mild relief that Barack Obama is back in the Oval Office. When he takes that...
View ArticleAre the Liberal Democrats more nationalist than Alex Salmond? Discuss.
First there was one option, now there is a whole raft of them. No sooner had Alex Salmond and David Cameron struck the Edinburgh Agreement, and opened the way for a single question referendum on...
View ArticleNewsnight is toast.
And so farewell then, George Entwhistle. The Head of Vision who didn't see his own programmes, Twitter or, apparently, the Guardian newspaper, which on Friday revealed that Newsnight had falsely...
View ArticleThe worst case of irresponsible and defamatory journalism in broadcasting...
“Paedo Tories Outed on Live TV” was how the Daily Star newspaper reported the ambush of David Cameron by Phillip Schofield on ITV's This Morning programme last Thursday. The presenter thrust into...
View ArticleWe know who you are, says Lord McAlpine. But do they? The BNP bloggers who...
Lord McAlpine appears to have come to a deal with BBC over the false child abuse allegations made against him by Newsnight. His lawyer has warned those who outed him on the internet to come forward on...
View ArticleEurope's trades unionists have won the argument even if they haven't won the...
Last week' pan-european strike was the biggest show of trade union solidarity since the creation of the European Union. 40 trades unions in 23 countries took to the streets in protest at the austerity...
View ArticlePrice fixing energy monopolies are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Whistle-blower says energy companies fix the price of gas. And the Pope is Catholic. Did anyone seriously think that the price of gas, electricituy or petrol is determined by a free market? As...
View ArticleNorway, Scotland, and why I was wrong about the arc of insolvency
I have often regretted coining the phrase “the arc of insolvency” in this column in 2008 to describe the financial crisis as it afflicted Iceland and Ireland. It was only ever one side of the story....
View ArticleNadine Dorries: A Nightmare in Westminster.
Daytime nightmares are the worst kind because you can't wake up from them. All week, I've been haunted by an image that lodged in my brain on the day the Conservative MP for Mid-Bedfordshire, Nadine...
View ArticleWho will be first to be locked up by the Leveson Laws?
Form an orderly queue there, please. Editors are jostling to be the first in the clink if the government moves to introduce press regulation. Already, the editor of the Spectator, Fraser Nelson, has...
View ArticleLeveson Press Law. Don't worry, it'll never happen.
The debate over Lord Justice Leveson's call for statutory regulation of the press has unfortunately turned into a political bun-fight. Labour are so eager to court popularity by hammering the...
View ArticleGeorge's Christmas message to the poor: abandon hope.
From Herald 5/12/12 In 1931, when the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald cut unemployment benefit in an economic depression, the Labour party split and was almost destroyed as a political force...
View ArticleAutumn Statement: The End of the World As We Know IT . (That's if you're on...
Sunday Herald 9/12/12 According to the Mayan calendar, the world will end on the 21st of December, but reading the commentary on the Chancellor's autumn financial statement last week, you could be...
View ArticleIndependence in Europe. Jose he say "no".
It recalled the BBC Director General, John Entwhistle, being jeered by MPs over the Newsnight/Savile affair. John Swinney, the Scottish finance secretary, was ridiculed by the House of Lords economic...
View ArticleForget Barroso, what if the David Cameron takes Scotland out of Europe.
Sunday Herald 16/12/12I don't know about Tantric sex, but the Prime Minister is certainly a teaser. Last week he informed hungry hacks at a Westminster press lunch that he had delayed yet again his...
View ArticleBetter Together's secret weapon: Tony Blair.
Herald 18/12/12First it was David Cameron, now Tony Blair has entered the fray. He told journalists at a press gallery lunch this week that he stood ready and willing to come to the aid of Better...
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