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Tommy Sheridan is a source of great entertainment to many. He has just been imprisoned for three years for perjury, after defending himself in yet another trial. I’m not going Read more

Ouch. It is hard not to look at the ONS preliminary data on GDP and think of anything else. A 0.5% contraction was way off what most analysts expected it Read more

Andrew Mitchell is one of my favourite Secretaries of State. He has verve, passion and a real knowledge of his job. While most would love to be in his position, Read more

Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude declares the era of “Major IT Projects” over. Few will disagree with his observation that the Government has provided “easy margins” for the Read more

The moneysavingexpert site is an invaluable resource – advice, help and offers for all. This year, they are again running their campaign to improve how financial institutions, utility providers and Read more

Amid the no doubt soon to come wailing and breast-beating about why a certain project or programme should not have its funding cut, we should remember a few things. Firstly Read more

I think it’s fair to say that a majority of people in favour of reducing government spending (though I admit there is a discussion about how fast). I think it’s Read more

On Tuesday morning Lord Browne’s Independent Review of Higher Education Funding will be released. On Tuesday, a storm unlike anything that we have seen will be unleashed upon the coalition. Read more

Critics on the right, and I include myself, have often charged the Prime Minister and those around him with lacking ideology. But since the beginning, it has seemed clear that Read more

I was first elected as a Councillor in Welwyn Hatfield in May 1999. I became Conservative Group Leader in 2001, and from 2002 until 2005 I was Leader of the Read more