French people having an affair. Rumours that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both having affairs are gaining momentum in France. Well I never. That is surprising, isn’t it?

One of the triumphs of Labour spin over the last twenty years has been to caricature Thatcherism. Because they so feared its success, economically and electorally, they set out to associate it with a set of unpleasant characteristics so we would “never go back to

I’m all for the coinage of snazzy neologisms, and I have never been big on political correctness.  But premising an argument for the intellectual superiority of conservatism on the contention that anybody not blinded by the right is perforce a ‘libtard’ seems to sink the underlying contention straight away. Yet such is the thesis of a

The absurdity of appointing a never-elected, inexperienced, politically correct bureaucrat as the EU’s first foreign minister is slowly coming back to haunt Brussels. With less than 100 days in office, Catherine Ashton has fluctuated between Brussels’ laughing stock and its...

Marc Glendening is Campaign Director of the Democracy Movement. Never has a newspaper had such a powerful motive to destroy a political party. Everyone expects The Guardian to back Labour. It is, after all, Britain's pre-eminent left-of-centre broadsheet. Nevertheless, the...

Thousands of primary school children are being taught in supersized classes of more than 40 pupils, according to figures. There are tens of thousands of qualified teachers (and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it were 100,000 or more) who already work for the education system but never actually do any educating. They’re sitting in the

Whilst I was not surprised about the way the British establishment and the mainstream media (MSM) dealt with the death of Michael Foot, I was a little put out by the soft ride some of the left gave to the death of this political scoundrel. There is one certainty about the English upper middle classes, no matter how much a member of this class may periodically wave a radical wand, they instinctivel...

I've never liked party political conferences. First time I went to a UK Conservative Conference, I stayed in a B&B in Blackpool with Alun Cairns. I've never recovered properly. Anyway, I went to Llandudno yesterday to the Conservative Spring Conference. Only went for one very long day. Arrived at 8.00, and saw my Plaid Cymru opponent, Heledd Fychan parking up. Double take. Surely...

A bit for libetarians and for regulators – so take what you will.  It was laws and regualations, not market forces, that ended this, though it seems we can never under-estimate the ability of a greedy State to make a bad situation worse. This is an account from 1942 looking back to the condition of the

On the doorsteps, and sometimes on this site, I get asked what would the Conservatives do about the economic problems? David Cameron yesterday said ” We will never forget there is no such thing as government money. It is taxpayers’ money – your money”.