The horrors in France have at least made clear what we are fighting for
The head of MI5 warns that we too will be attacked. But in the battle for hearts and minds, the barbarity of our opponents is an advantage.
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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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Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Anyone for a game of political football over the health service?
As a spectator sport, this continual tripping, kicking, stamping, striking, biting, gouging and even emasculating of the other side leaves something to be desired.
As Cameron meets Merkel, a list of British characteristics that baffle the Germans
It is important not to fall in to the error of imagining the two countries to be more similar than they really are.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron lightens up and shows signs of growing electoral confidence
Miliband was unable to make the “back to the 1930s” accusation stick. Carswell seemed to forget he is no longer a Conservative.
Interview: Jacob Rees-Mogg – “I think the love-bombing of UKIP voters would be an intelligent strategy”
He contends that we have become “a classless society” – and will set out in his election address his demands for our EU renegotiation.
Cameron promises to make essential repairs which it would be reckless to entrust to Miliband
The Prime Minister’s simple, unadventurous rhetoric is well calculated to appeal to voters who feel their own finances to be every bit as precarious as the nation’s.
Free speech is endangered by the excessive fear of giving offence
Our politics are diminished by a prissy underestimate of what level of outspokenness is bearable. Hence the rise of UKIP.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Clegg’s bravery commands a degree of respect
Labour enjoyed making him sound like a Tory. But unlike them, he grasps that there can be no return to a pre-austerity past.
Cameron should stop pretending to be David Mellor in the back of a cab
By being so unrelentlingly contemptuous about the Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister is corrupting his own brand.
Andrew Gimson’s Autumn Statement sketch: Chancellor bludgeons Balls and presents himself as the progressive
There is a growing sense that the Opposition has wasted the last four years and is quite unable to offer an alternative economic programme.
Interview: Nicky Morgan – “As a Christian Secretary of State for Education, I will oppose secular, politically correct dogma”
Michael Gove’s successor upholds his reforms, opposes new grammar schools, dismisses Tristram Hunt as “vacuous”…and admires Henry VIII.
UKIP has peaked, and is in the process of becoming a party like any other
The strain of cohabiting with Douglas Carswell is crushing Nigel Farage’s joie de vivre.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: white van man becomes the arbiter of politics
We got Shakespeare driving a white van, or at least commenting on one, but he was trumped by an MP who actually has white vans in his family.
Interview: Daniel Moylan – “Boris will never surrender his vision of building a great new airport east of London”
The airports adviser to the Mayor of London tells ConHome what “a Boris world” would look like.
Prince Charles will have to be very careful when he makes “heartfelt interventions”
Conscientiousness will not be a sufficient defence if the monarch campaigns for policies to which Parliament or some substantial body of public opinion objects.