The Prime Minister has sunk in the esteem of Tory MPs, ConHome readers and the press because he hides away too much in Downing Street.
Much the best way to embarrass its members at Westminster would be to hail them as friends and fellow members of the Establishment.
This account of three and a half years as a special adviser confirms how trivial and transitory the role can be.
Plus: The train of communism stalls but the train of conservatism stutters. And: Tackling Burning Injustices does not mean taxing milkshakes.
Change, optimism and hope are a step up from paralysis, despair and pessimism. But successful politicians don’t necessarily radiate uplift.
Hammond is no chilly technocrat – but a warm and genial technocrat.
The case for Bercow as a great reformer tends to be obscured by his astonishingly bad manners.
Quentin Letts is the Parliamentary sketchwriter of the Daily Mail Sterner editorial discipline may not be easily imposed on a sprawling organisation, yet this is essential if the BBC is to retain political support. It will fall into line if the Director-General re-states quickly – with some early coups de main – a morality about […]