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Posts Tagged: Lord Randolph Churchill

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Starmer touches on a sore point about Cummings

The Prime Minister was obliged to listen to some advice from Wellingborough Conservative Party: “Say the first thing that comes into your head.”

By Andrew Gimson | 16 December 2020 | 19 comments

Dale fails to realise that the right to be rude lies at the heart of the British idea of freedom

But his new book conveys very well what is wrong with social media, and how it might be put right.

By Andrew Gimson | 19 September 2020 | 47 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson has a bad first day back, with no plausible excuses for not doing his homework

Starmer had a success, conveying genuine moral indignation as he asked tough questions.

By Andrew Gimson | 2 September 2020 | 120 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson exudes an impudent freedom and refuses to take Starmer seriously

The PM crashed about in a manner which recalled the short, brilliant, astonishingly abusive career of Lord Randolph Churchill.

By Andrew Gimson | 17 June 2020 | 68 comments

Andrew Gimson’s election sketch: Johnson plays his greatest joke on the Corbynistas

Here is a Tory Democrat who with sublime impertinence has stolen the socialists’ clothes.

By Andrew Gimson | 13 December 2019 | 47 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Conference sketch: The Prime Minister steps forth as heir to Disraeli and champion of Tory Democracy

The Prime Minister demonstrated his abounding vitality, and his love of teasing the prigs who oppose him.

By Andrew Gimson | 2 October 2019 | 93 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Conference sketch: The Foreign Secretary trumped by Rees-Mogg the Tory Democrat

Raab trod gingerly in Heseltine’s footsteps, while the Leader of the House presented the Shakespearean drama of politics.

By Andrew Gimson | 29 September 2019 | 47 comments

We think we know Churchill, but are constantly surprised by him

Andrew Roberts manages to bring the great man before us in all his variousness in just under a thousand pages.

By Andrew Gimson | 3 November 2018 | 15 comments

Profile: Geoff Norcott – the “only” Conservative comedian

He could have a future as a political commentator of unusual perceptiveness, who understands that everything is in flux.

By Andrew Gimson | 28 February 2018 | 37 comments

History demonstrates why a new pro-EU party would be doomed

Churchill saw a century ago that the existing party machines will always prove the stronger, and UKIP and the SDP have confirmed this.

By Andrew Gimson | 17 August 2017 | 164 comments

Rebecca Coulson: Do we need One Nation conservatism?

In advancing controversial policies without an explanation other than economic return, the party has been left open to claims of acting from greed and elitism.

By Rebecca Lowe | 15 June 2016 | 9 comments

Dan Pitt: What’s at the core of conservatism? Markets? Aspiration? Opportunity? No: at its beating heart is love, love, love

Our country, families, the environment, home – we love them all. The object of life is love and we ought to aspire toward the triumph of love.

By Daniel Pitt | 15 November 2015 | 11 comments

Lewis Baston: Will Salmond follow Parnell’s example after the next election?

The former ground the Commons to a halt in his campaign for Home Rule. That wouldn’t be so easy for the SNP. But they will make their presence felt…

By Lewis Baston | 13 February 2015 | 29 comments

Profile: Sir Winston Churchill. Not be confused with Boris Churchill, a.k.a Sir Winston Johnson

The Mayor’s book about Britain’s great Prime Minister has the valuable effect of making us look again at this titanic figure – Churchill, that is.

By Andrew Gimson | 16 October 2014 | 2 comments

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