Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are engaged in something that has little to do with democracy, says Janet Daley, argues Janet Daley.

Janet Daley is Jewish but I was willing to listen There is an interesting article in today’s Daily Telegraph from Janet Daley which tells us of her conversation with a Muslim taxi driver and her childhood memories in Boston surrounded by Protestant and Roman Catholic children. The main thrust of her argument, with which I am

Michael Foot's death reminds us of a time when politics was a matter for everyone, says Janet Daley.

Here. Something like 10 years ago, I remember asking the then Editor of The Catholic Herald, who had lately appeared on The Moral Maze, how he had got on with David Starkey. Fine, he replied. "But Janet Daley is just vile", and her idea of conversation over dinner was to have photocopied her Telegraph column in order to distribute it between courses, so that it could be discussed once the food had...

A post from Janet Daley caught my eye this weekend. It contained an astonishing assertion. Here it is: Some of the chief tenets of the Tory Modernisation doctrine which Populus embraced were contained in Lord Ashcroft’s report “Smell the Coffee”....

Janet Daley says the Conservative Party has these interesting, caring policies but is too shy to set them out in the face of Labour attacks. Excuse me? If they are frightened off by opponents' propaganda, what chance of bravery if they come to put these ideas into effect? What of the many interest groups who will oppose them? Wimp wimp. These are the people who have already wimped out of oppo...

The strikers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery have won 102 more jobs for local people. Janet Daley and John Redwood are delighted: Janet Daley: "I wonder if those local people in Lincolnshire will be willing to forget how the political...

Janet Daley, March 2009: Big Government is roaring back with a hubris and moral self-righteousness that would have seemed inconceivable even a year ago. Janet Daley, June 2008 The notion that Big Government (whether in the central or the local form) could solve all social problems, and through its interventions achieve absolute justice and harmony, is collapsing. And in its last moments, in its di...

By Janet Daley I’m sure that Iain Dale’s lament for the absence of female pundits on the Right from broadcast current affairs is kindly meant. I’m afraid that it is also rather naïve. There is a perfectly understandable reason why...

In art as in politics people have begun to see through the charade to the emptiness that lies beneath says Janet Daley.