Martin Sewell: Are ” Human Rights” Alien, Culturally Insensitive, and Undemocratic?

Martin Sewell is a Family Lawyer specialising in Child Protection and Adoption and an Anglican Lay Reader.  His work puts… Read more »

Populus puts the Tories ahead

A new Populus poll for The Times gives Cameron’s Conservatives a 1% lead.  A very slight recovery in LibDem support… Read more »

John Redwood will focus on government waste

John Redwood has used an interview with the FT (subscription required) to set out some of the priorities for the… Read more »

What kind of centrist are you, Mr Cameron?

Last week David Cameron warned that the “alternative to fighting for the centre ground" was "irrelevance, defeat and failure”.  This… Read more »

Who has the best friends?

Today’s Telegraph makes a list of Gordon’s domestic and international kitchen cabinets… In the international list are Alan Greenspan, Bono,… Read more »

Cameron: I want to be PM, not President

One of the great political skills of Tony Blair was to deny Conservatives any exclusive space close to the centre… Read more »

Could Huhne do it?

Christopher Huhne’s insurgent campaign to succeed Charles Kennedy looks increasingly powerful (he’s now at less than 2/1 according to PoliticalBetting.com…. Read more »

Davis calls for police to act against Muslim protestors

"Has any Tory spoken about the cartoon crisis yet?" That was ConservativeHome’s question of yesterday. David Davis has answered the… Read more »

Tim Yeo questions David Cameron’s marriage policy

Tim Yeo MP is quoted in Sunday newspapers suggesting that David Cameron should abandon his commitment to support marriage through… Read more »

Labour: Cameron is just like Bush

Up until now Labour have been divided on the best critique of David Cameron.  If The Observer is to be… Read more »

Has any Tory spoken about the cartoon crisis yet?

"Exterminate those who slander Islam." "Behead those who insult Islam." "Europe you will pay.  Your 9/11 is on its way."… Read more »

Reform offers George Osborne an economics lesson

The think tank Reform (founded to promote "radical public sector and economic reform") yesterday published an excellent briefing on tax…. Read more »

IDS beats Galloway at Cambridge Union

At last night’s Cambridge Union the debate was ‘This House believes that military action is counterproductive in the fight against… Read more »

Brian Jenner: Lamenting the rise of the ‘urban regeneration practitioner’

Brian Jenner edits the community website for Paddington & Bayswater, www.newspad.co.uk If you can’t beat them, why not make a… Read more »

ROTW: Hats off to Greg Clark and Paul Goodman

TOPIC OF THE WEEK… energy.  George W Bush said that America must free itself from its oil addiction.  In Britain… Read more »