In Paris, the cake known as the Bûche de Noël is an opportunity for creativity, commerce, competition and consumption.

Gerald had taken the cake... Cartoon: Ben Gallagher

Last week’s Daily Telegraph article attacking YouGov’s polling raises some disturbing issues about the quality of political debate as we fast approach the general election. Firstly, the article’s authors seem to have no understanding about how polls should be conducted. They complain that the raw data in one large aggregated survey “were…‘weighted’ using ...

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott explained why he stuck his fingers in a BBC cake being offered to celebrate the first anniversary of the coalition government.

For subscribers to Proceedings magazine, there is an article in the January 2010 issue by Commander Stephen J. Coughlin discussing the Cyclones. The article, Good Things Come in Small Packages, is essentially a brief history and short support for the PC as a platform. If you can't read the article, it is time to renew your subscription for the new year. The article does not take on one of the...

George Osborne comes out fighting in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph - launching a four-point plan to deal with soaring government and private debt as well as offering more protection to savers. Read his exclusive article on this site later tonight.  The Sunday Telegraph also has a BPIX opinion poll - which offers further evidence of a "Brown bounce" in the wake of Labour's conference i...

Telegraph TV has a rolling programme of short video clips from the Conservative Conference, starting with a special Westminster Whispers, which is a regular feature in the (very good, but currently on recess) Right On weekly Internet TV programme. There's (at present: this might change over the next days) short clip from Boris and Cameron, and comment from Telegraph journos, automatically going

Short-selling is like bank robbery, the normally-sensible Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, told an audience on Wednesday. And yesterday, his colleague, Dr Rowan Williams, showed his hostility to short-selling in a Spectator article that, oddly, managed to name check Marx but not God. Archbishops of York and Canterbury both say short-selling is wrong They are mistaken. Short-selling i...

On Wednesday ConservativeHome were kind enough to publish a short article I'd written with regard to the planning process. To read the article click here.

Yesterday's Daily Telegraph carried an article entitled "How the public is spending £7 million on Beijing Olympic staff". (The Telegraph link is a little iffy but here is one to the article in the Daily Mail. The wording is almost exactly the same, which makes one wonder which news agency provided the copy in the first place.) This details the many officials, politicians and BBC journal...