Many former Conservative voters are so fed up with the Cameron coalition that they will turn to UKIP as the party which comes closest to a traditional Conservative agenda, and a reasoned position on...
// Well, I would humbly submit that there are better ways of tackling the Ukip problem, if indeed it is really a problem at all. The rise of Farage and Ukip tells us some interesting and important...
The Royal Mail have issued a set of stamps today with one or two hard to recognise Britons. Here are some previous issues of famous Britons. How many do you recognise (without Googling)?...
Even before the Local Council Elections, UKiP has gained 30 more seats this year. Mainly they are Councillors defecting from the Conservative Party....
I get the impression a lot of people are fed up with their lot at the moment, and they are angry and desperate. I would not be surprised if we see civil unrest on the streets again. When it warms up...
IDS has dismissed it as 'a complete stunt'. But 250,000 have signed it in 48 hours. He has rather shot himself in the foot with the comment he could live on £53 a week. Do you think he will take up...
The so called 'Bedroom Tax' starts today. Anyone receiving Housing Benefit (HB) who has a spare room will have their HB reduced. Will it solve the housing shortage? or Is it a cynical stealthy way to...
// The Coalition will this week begin recruiting thousands of workers for the organisation, which is to be headed by a dedicated “Lights Tsar”. Employees will be tasked with going door-to-door to...
// Labour MP David Miliband has resigned from the board of Sunderland FC because of new manager Paolo Di Canio's "past political statements". Mr Di Canio has previously claimed to be "a fascist, not a...
// On a bitterly cold and snowing afternoon in Aberdeen, the doors of St John's Episcopal Church are open to hundreds of Muslim worshippers, arriving for daily prayers. The familiar sounds of...
You may not have heard of him but he is Chairman of the Conservative Party. He also seems to have been doing a lot of briefing to the Daily Telegraph who quote him twice in two different lead stories....
// Andrew Mitchell, the former chief whip, has issued a formal complaint over the apparent leaking of the police report into the “plebgate” row which forced him to resign from the government. In a...
There have been a few instances of shop owners / workers scanning winning tickets and saying it was just £10. // A shopkeeper from Gravesend has been found guilty of trying to con a lottery syndicate...
// Court of appeal rejects home secretary's attempt to overturn decision to block radical cleric's deportation The home secretary, Theresa May, has lost her latest legal attempt to deport the radical...
// David Miliband is planning to leave Parliament to move to the US to work for a charity, a close friend has confirmed to the BBC. He is going to take up what is described as a "big international job...
// George Osborne’s £15 billion plan to underwrite mortgages and take stakes in new homes will drive up house prices without boosting housebuilding significantly, Treasury forecasters have said....
I have been reading you since I was nine. 40 years, but now you are going behind a paywall (like the Times did). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21946916 Seriously, I will not be subscribing. Would...
// Nurses will spend a year on wards feeding and washing patients before they can qualify, under plans to be announced on Tuesday to ensure compassion in hospitals. Ministers believe that a return to...
From the Daily Torygraph... // A major crackdown by David Cameron on immigration was unravelling rapidly today after it emerged that it would only affect a small minority of foreigners in Britain....