Nigel Jones is a historian, biographer and journalist. In the space of a couple of days I have heard two violently contrasting predictions of the future course and duration of the Coalition: one, from a Liberal Democrat Minister who believes the Government will last the whole term of a full Parliament; the other, from a […]
Nigel Jones is a historian, biographer and journalist. When considering the future of the newly-minted Conservative-Liberal coalition – the first full marriage between the two oldest parties in British politics in 90 years – it is worth recalling what happened the last time the couple walked down the aisle. Not because history necessarily repeats itself, […]
Nigel Jones is a historian, biographer and journalist. Seventy years ago today, on May 10th 1940, Winston Churchill was called to Buckingham Palace and entrusted by a reluctant King George VI with the job of forming a new coalition government to confront the worst crisis Britain had faced in its history as a nation state. […]
Nigel Jones is a historian, biographer and journalist. As Britain entered the 20th century, regularly alternating two-party Government was firmly established, and had been so for a century since a short-lived 'Ministry of all the Talents' under Lord Grenville was formed to fight the good fight against Napoleon in 1806. (It failed to defeat Boney, […]
Nigel Jones is a historian, biographer and journalist. One of the major attractions of the Left – especially to the young – has always been their identification with romantic rebellion and revolt against the stuffy, conventional established order. In England, this goes right back to the legend of Robin Hood and his Merry Men – […]
Nigel Jones is a historian, biographer and journalist. There are two things that are absolutely certain about this election: whoever wins it is going to have to make swingeing, nay savage, spending cuts to bring down Britain's ruinous, and ever-ballooning debt levels. And an increasingly desperate Labour will again play the class war card to […]
Nigel Jones is a historian, biographer and journalist who has contributed to The Prime Ministers Who Never Were, released by Biteback today (RRP £15). The book is available for ConservativeHome readers for the special price of £12 plus free UK P&P. Please contact james.stephens@bitebackpublishing.com to take advantage of this offer. The Prime Minister, David Davis, […]