The “ideal wife“, he once argued, was “a beauty queen from Playboy who spoke no known language, ever.”

It is rare that a political party is handed an issue that enables it to rally its base, appeal to swing voters and put the other side on the back foot. But that is how much of a gift to the Tories these strikes are. There has been a bit of an enthusiasm deficit amongst Tory activists and traditional Tories more generally ever since David Cameron recalibrated the party's European policy follow...

Billy Wolfe, the former SNP leader who oversaw the party's best ever general election performance, has died aged 86.

Someone who actually knows what they’re talking about says: Sorry Richard, but while I don’t agree with Tim Worstall on much stuff – particularly his hatred of the European project, and greater backing of tax evasion than I would support – I have never, ever, ever read an argument of yours that managed

I'm returning to my theme of yesterdays post, but via Jeff Randall's opinion article in today's Telegraph where he accuses Labour of infantilising the electorate. The long and short of Jeff's argument is that Labour lead people to think they could have their cake and eat it in 97. Ever since then they have pretended ( with all the dark arts they discovered to get themselves ele...

Of all the days in history I’ve had to write about so far, March 18th seems about the dullest. Nothing particularly interesting has ever happened today, so that’s a bit of a challenge for the day just leaving the starters blocks. About the best the wikipedia page for today can offer up is that John Updike

But those that tell lies, that seek my soul to destroy it,they shall go into the nethermost parts of the earth; they shall fall by the sword; they shall be a portion for foxes -Psalm 63. The mask has come off...if indeed it was ever on. For those of us who were always aware of whom Barack Obama really is and whom his mentors were and are, this is hardly a surprise that Obama would seek an opportun...

“But I’m a relaxed person, so I don’t give a shit what people think.” Perhaps temporary marriage ain’t the best thing ever but as long as a country has women who think and act that way it’s going to get better.

Could you vote for Piers Morgan? In an interview with Freddy Gray in The Spectator tomorrow, he says he's tempted to stand for Parliament - and it's not such a surprise. He has weirdly inserted himself in the political process in recent weeks, defining Nick "no more than 30" Clegg and giving Gordon Brown probably the best piece of television coverage he will receive - ever. Now...

W process of technocratic economic management signed into law under the Maastricht treaty, under a particular set of economic conditions which the then policy makers assumed would last for ever, is now adding to an already considerable burden on people who did not make the crisis, and did not gain from the booms that caused it. As a result there is a real possibility of major social unrest in many...