Alex Deane, author of The Great Abdication and a CentreRight contributor, rebuts some of the arguments in favour of legalising drugs. As a junior criminal barrister, perhaps the majority of my work concerns drug addicts or drug dealers. I am often asked by friends and acquaintances whether it might be better simply to legalise drugs, […]
Alexander Deane, author of The Great Abdication and a CentreRight contributor, reviews "Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain" by Peter Whittle, published by the Social Affairs Unit. The unlikely hero of Peter Whittle’s amusing and sad portrait of mainstream life in our times is Simon Cowell, the star selector (and, moreover, rejecter) […]
Alexander Deane is one of the contributors to CentreRight.com. His work has also appeared at OnlineOpinion, in The Salisbury Review, The Quarterly Review, The Contemporary Review and The Daily Mail. He argues that US Republicans should vote for John McCain even though he’s an imperfect conservative. Real conservatives in the UK (and there are some, […]
Alexander Deane is a Barrister. A former chief of staff to David Cameron MP in the UK, he currently works for the Liberal Party in Australia. The Conservative Party has been riven for two generations by a single issue – Europe. Whilst in the current climate it may seem to have dropped from the forefront […]
Alexander Deane is a barrister, author and former Chief of Staff to David Cameron. During the recent Question Time furore over what could and could not be asked of him, Tony Blair spoke about his view of Gordon Brown’s record, and had a pop at David Cameron’s pre-Parliamentary career: “A record that has delivered, as […]
Alexander Deane is a barrister, author and former Chief of Staff to David Cameron. Because public debate about the “right to die” is always prompted by undeniably tragic high-profile cases, those of us who oppose euthanasia are usually on the back foot. We let those who favour the legalisation of euthanasia frame the discussion in […]
Alex Deane is a barrister, author and former Chief of Staff to David Cameron. America’s conservative movement is nourished and sustained by a TV network that’s relentlessly on its side – Fox News. That media bedrock ensures that the other side of the debate is always being put, even when the weight of liberal media […]
Alex Deane is David Cameron’s former Chief of Staff. How many people have you seen wearing Che Guevara t-shirts? How many do you know that have a poster of him blu-tacked to a wall? As is immediately apparent to any who look into it, as Andrew Sinclair has illustrated and Daniel Wolf has made absolutely […]
Last week I was lucky enough to see the run-up to Taiwan's triple-tiered elections on Saturday, and see election day itself. Candidates for Wards, Councils and Mayoralties vied in a series of vibrant contests. Posters were everywhere. Rallies with huge, attentive audiences spring up all over the place (the picture here is of a DPP […]