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Andrew Gimson

Posts by Andrew Gimson

Andrew Gimson is a contributing editor to ConservativeHome and the author of "Boris - the Rise of Boris Johnson". He was the Daily Telegraph's parliamentary sketchwriter, and before that the paper's Berlin correspondent.

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Trump reminds Comey of a Mafia boss

For readers on this side of the Atlantic, there is also some value in being shown how explicit, and serious, Americans like to be about moral questions.

Book Reviews, Highlights | By Andrew Gimson | 21 April 2018 at 6:45 am | 13 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Corbyn duffs up Corbyn

His refusal to get to grips with Labour anti-Semitism, or think about anything he finds personally disagreeable, makes him hopelessly unprofessional.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 18 April 2018 at 2:03 pm | 28 comments

Profile: Enoch Powell. Many politicians rose higher. Few made a bigger impact – or still do.

He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.

Highlights, Profiles | By Andrew Gimson | 18 April 2018 at 6:40 am | 140 comments

Interview: Ben Houchen – Teesside will show how Britain can thrive after Brexit

In the second piece in our three-part mini-series, the Mayor tells ConservativeHome that freeport status can transform the area.

Highlights, Interviews | By Andrew Gimson | 11 April 2018 at 6:40 am | 49 comments

A jobbing criminal hack reveals that the lower courts are in a frightful mess

The Secret Barrister has attained a great success with his account of a legal system infected with squalid incompetence.

Book Reviews, Highlights | By Andrew Gimson | 7 April 2018 at 6:45 am | 68 comments

Profile: The Jews in Britain

By inflicting such pain, Corbyn has compelled a discussion. But the Jewish contribution to Britain should not be reduced to mere political calculation.

Highlights, Profiles | By Andrew Gimson | 6 April 2018 at 6:40 am | 70 comments

Dr Johnson is an inspiring companion at Easter

His profound sense of failure, and scorching humility, live on in his notes to himself in his Prayers and Meditations.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 30 March 2018 at 7:00 am | 18 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Corbyn evades Worboys and Brexit as well as anti-semitism

He is the laziest and most self-indulgent Leader of the Opposition in living memory.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 28 March 2018 at 2:14 pm | 18 comments

Sketch: Corbyn spurns Labour’s Jewish members, who demonstrate their sense of utter betrayal

The failure to confront anti-semitism within the Labour Party has led to a total breakdown of trust.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 27 March 2018 at 6:40 am | 156 comments

Graham and Rowley try to answer the big question “Why are you a Conservative?”

These two MPs have not found, at the first attempt, the sort of language that will appeal to the unconverted. But nor did David Cameron.

Book Reviews, Highlights | By Andrew Gimson | 24 March 2018 at 6:45 am | 122 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May’s dominance is good for her but bad for the Commons

Only 28 years after the poll tax precipitated Thatcher’s downfall, no one called for a new system of local government finance.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 21 March 2018 at 2:00 pm | 14 comments

Profile: The Prime Minister, as revealed in the twelve qualities shared by successful holders of that office

The author of the newly-published Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May reflects on what holders of the office have in common – and don’t.

Highlights, Profiles | By Andrew Gimson | 21 March 2018 at 6:40 am | 86 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May looks at last as if she is finding her feet, Corbyn gives way to incurable vanity

The Leader of the Opposition admired himself for behaving like a backbench dissident.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 14 March 2018 at 2:51 pm | 80 comments

Hammond’s seriousness, professionalism and – yes – dullness make Labour look lightweight

It is not that he dares to be dull, but that he cannot help being so. He has prudently turned it to his advantage.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 14 March 2018 at 7:00 am | 77 comments

May has given Moscow a deadline – she must enforce it with unmistakeable firmness

The British Government needs to show the same resolve as in 1971, when Sir Alec Douglas-Home threw 105 KGB agents out of London.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 13 March 2018 at 7:00 am | 353 comments

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