Regular readers of this blog will know that I am not the founder member of the Gordon Brown fan club.  Indeed, the Gordon Brown fan club at the moment probably has a Read more

Just when Gordon though things couldn’t get any worse… Along came Glasgow East.  Last night’s by-election result can only be described as a catastrophe for Gordon Brown.  A 22% swing Read more

Barack Obama’s visit to Europe this week is rightly dominating the news agenda.  As I have made quite clear in the past, I think that Obama is one of the Read more

The United Nations has abjectly failed the people of Zimbabwe.  It has completely failed to stand for human rights against tyranny.  In doing so, the UN has once again drawn Read more

There are times when public figures make statements that are so utterly extraordinary; so completely at odds with reality that they do not fail to take the breath away.  A Read more

Glasgow does not represent prime Conservative territory.  Indeed, we have not been properly competitive in that great city for much of the past half century.  However, it is crucial that Read more

Gordon Brown’s Premiership has surely passed the point of no return.  I believe that, as a Party, we should be preparing to face another opponent – perhaps more suited  to Read more

Acres of newsprint in the past few weeks have been given over to nostalgia about the events of 1968.  A recent New Statesman and this month’s Prospect magazine both make Read more

Janet Daley’s piece in Monday’s Telegraph was both utterly deluded and thoroughly insightful at the same time.  The insight comes in her admission that Gordon Brown was exposed as an Read more

A devastating article in this morning’s Guardian by Jonathan Freedland will be accompanied by considerable gloom in Downing Street.  The straightforward view expressed in the piece is that Brown is Read more