BOOK REVIEW: More Human by Steve Hilton
- 21 May 2015
You can divide political people into two categories – dreamers and do-ers. The dreamers write idealistic papers for worthy think tanks, write a few comment pieces for newspapers but give them a sniff of power or office and they suddenly become like anyone else, part of the mac...
WATCH: Emma Sky on Iraq, Syria & Why We've Got it So Wrong
- 19 May 2015
This is a 20 minute interview I did with Emma Sky on LBC today, author of THE UNRAVELLING: HIGH HOPES & MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN IRAQ (Atlantic Books, HB, £18.99). I learnt more about Iraq and what has gone wrong in this interview than I have done in the whole of the last t...
WATCH: My Interview With Harriet Harman
- 18 May 2015
I interviewed Harriet Harman this evening on LBC for 30 minutes. We covered a lot of ground – why Labour lost, the lessons that can be learned and the current leadership contest.
Nicola Sturgeon is Dominating This Election
- 17 May 2015
It could have been so very different. This general election campaign has so far been dominated by one woman. No, not Margaret Thatcher or her legacy, but another Iron Lady, the leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon. No one could have predicted it, few can explain it, but let me h...
Election Predictions: Why Did We Get It So Wrong?
- 16 May 2015
Let’s face it, it wasn’t just the pollsters who got it wrong. It was the whole political class, including the punditerati and the commentariat. Including me. We have egg on our faces, we were humiliated and we all need to look at why this happened. How could we all – and I mea...
ConHome Diary: The Curate's Egg Reshuffle
- 15 May 2015
Overall, I think it has been quite a good and competent reshuffle, albeit with one or two glaring exceptions and none more so than the removal of Grant Shapps from the party chairmanship and his move to the Department for International Development as Minister of State. It’s a ...
WATCH: The LBC Parliament Hour - An Hour With Four New MPs
- 14 May 2015
Four new entrants to parliament joined me in the LBC studio’s this evening. They were Stephen Kinnock, Tulip Siddiq, James Cleverly and Tania Mathias. Along with recounting their experiences of becoming MP’s, the four covered the current Labour leadership contest , the possi...
LISTEN AGAIN: LBC's Seven Hour Election Night Show
- 10 May 2015
LISTEN HERE On Thursday night, Shelagh Fogarty and I spent seven hours presenting LBC’s election night coverage. Tim Montgomerie, Damian McBride and our resident Elections Analyst Gareth Knight were with us for the whole night and we were also joined for a lot of it by the Li...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 27: Getting Off To a Good Start on Election Night
- 9 May 2015
Listeners and viewers have a lot of choice on election night, so it’s important to get off to a flying start. We decided to start our show at 9.55 and build up to 10pm when we would get the exit poll flashed onto our screens. I was co-presenting with Sheila Fogarty for the...
ConHome Diary: Twenty Comments on Election Night
- 8 May 2015
Party leaders say some very odd things. Ed Miliband was interviewed by my LBC colleague Theo Usherwood on the last day of campaigning and was very keen to explain his priorities as prime minister. He said he wouldn’t be thinking of hedge fund managers every day, “I’d be thinki...
Join Shelagh Fogarty Tonight From 9.55 for the LBC Election Night Coverage
- 7 May 2015
I hope you will join me and Shelagh Fogarty from 9.55pm until 5am for LBC’s election night coverage. We’re intending to have some fun and give the BBC a run for their money. We have reporters at 100 counts, we’ll get the results on air as soon as they are announced and we’ll ...
LISTEN: Gender Segregation Can Never, Ever Be Justified And Here's Why
- 7 May 2015
Earlier this week I did a phonein on gender segregation after 7 Labour candidates spoke at a meeting in Birmingham where the women had to sit separate from the men. Among those candidates were Jack Dromey, Tom Watson, Khalid Mahmood and Liam Byrne. Now it’s one thing for this...
WATCH: The LBC Business & Economy Debate
- 5 May 2015
Tonight I hosted an hour long Business & Economy debate on LBC with Vince Cable, Chuka Umunna, Matt Hancock and Neil Hamilton. It was quite sparky at times, and I reckon was one of the best debates of the election campaign. The ‘Ask me Anything’ sections, where the candi...
A Rather Lovely Election Graphic For You
- 5 May 2015
LBC’s Adrian Sherling has knocked this up. Rather lovely, don’t you think?
Attitude Column: What If a Footballer Came Out?
- 5 May 2015
He hadn’t told anyone. Not even his agent. It was going to be done on his own terms. Adam Ranger hadn’t told his mother what he was about to do, and he especially hadn’t told his gossipy sister. They would all find out like the rest of the country. Had he told any one of them,...
Final General Election Predictions 64: Birmingham
- 5 May 2015
APOLOGIES, IT SEEMS I FORGOT TO LIST MY FINAL BIRMINGHAM PREDICTIONS. HERE THEY ARE! Back in January I predicted the outcome of the General Election, seat by seat. Since then, I have done more research and altered some of the predictions taking into account various issues inc...
LISTEN: Idiotic Stunts Like the Mili-Tablet Happen Because No One Has the Bottle To Say No
- 4 May 2015
listen to ‘“No one had the bottle to say NO!” Iain Dale gives his take on Labour’s #EdStone & it isn’t pretty’ on audioBoom How did the Ed Miliband Tablet idea ever get past the Labour Party drawing board?
Never Go Tiger Hunting With a Gossipy Liberal Democrat
- 4 May 2015
I had never heard of Lord Scriven before this morning. He’s the LibDem Peer who tweeted that David Cameron had told Nick Clegg before the election that he didn’t think the Tories would get a majority. So Cameron has taken to lying on Tory Maj. @nick_clegg told me that Came...
Twenty Predictions For Election Night
- 4 May 2015
Just as in 2010 there will be queues outside polling stations at 10pm and people won’t be allowed to vote. Politicians will declare their outrage and say that something must be done to prevent it happening again. Just like 2010. There will be reports of voter...
How Would Parliament Work if the SNP Get 50 Seats?
- 3 May 2015
No one has so far thought about the consequences for Parliament of the SNP gaining a shed load of seats. Let’s imagine that they do as well as the pollsters say and they get something around 50 seats. There are a number of consequences to that for the operation of Parliament. ...