Poll: In/Out European Referendum - How Would You Vote?
- 23 Jan 2013
We just took a snap In-Out Referendum poll in the Biteback office and we voted 6-5 to stay in! So I thought I would test the opinions of my blog readers and Twitter followers. So, take this two question poll and I will publish the result later. Click HERE to register your vo...
Will Labour's Eurosceptics Persuade Ed Miliband to Change His Referendum Stance?
- 23 Jan 2013
Watching Caroline Flint on the Daily Politics earlier, you can see one thing David Cameron has achieved with his Europe speech. He has put Labour on the back foot. Despite having known what was in the speech for several days, they clearly haven’t worked out a line to take. If...
Michael Winner - Rude, Insufferable & Totally Magnificent
- 21 Jan 2013
Michael Winner, I think we can all agree, was a real character. I first met him a couple of years ago when he came into LBC to do an hour long interview with me about his latest book. As he shuffled into the studio looking as if he was about to kark it, I had this feeling of ...
Who Do You Think You are Kidding, Mrs Merkel?
- 21 Jan 2013
Someone told me a good yarn yesterday (I have no idea how true it is) about our beloved Prime Minister and his relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Apparently the two of them aren’t beyond taking the piss out of each other. It all started, apparently, while they ...
If The Tories Ditch Dave They're Finished for 2015
- 20 Jan 2013
So if Isabel Oakeshott is right, and she very often is, there are 55 Tory MPs who are quite seriously considering the possibility of deposing David Cameron. As young people on Twitter might say – WTF? Are they stark staring mad? Because, let’s face it, deposing a sitting Prim...
Lord Oakeshott Is Strangely Quiet on Peerage For LibDem Donor
- 20 Jan 2013
I see from the Sunday Times that Nick Clegg is intending to submit the name of Rumi Verjee as a new LibDem Peer. Mr Verjee is a very successful businessman, so successful that he has been generous enough to donate £770,000 to the Liberal Democrats over the years. Good on him. ...
Teasing Gooners - Mourinho to the Emirates?
- 20 Jan 2013
Oh dear. Arsenal fans really are sensitive little flowers, are they not? Indeed, not only that, the majority of Gooners on Twitter seem to have both a sense of humour failure and a massive inferiority complex. Let me explain. Yesterday lunchtime I was driving to West Ham list...
They're Not Militants, They're Terrorists
- 19 Jan 2013
Why is it that the BBC calls terrorists militants? They may well be militants, but people who kill others for political aims and cause terror are also, without doubt, terrorists. I’ve never heard a convincing argument from the BBC as to why they insist of using a word most of ...
Tomorrow on my Sunday Morning LBC Politics Show
- 19 Jan 2013
This is what we have lined up for you tomorrow morning between 10am and 1pm on my LBC Sunday Politics Show. 10am Algeria/Mali. Guests include former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen. 11am Adoptions are lower than ever despite attempts to make adoption easier. Guest from Barnardo...
We Mustn't Send Troops to Mali
- 19 Jan 2013
Events in Algeria are truly worrying. But it is perhaps the situation in Mali which is of even greater concern. On Thursday former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner seriously suggested that Britain should send ground troops to Mali to support his country’s efforts. Up ...
It's Snow Joke
- 18 Jan 2013
So it’s snowing. Big deal. This country has gone stark raving bonkers in its reaction to the latest bout of snowflakes settling on the ground. Many public sector organisations actually told their staff not to come to work purely on the basis of predicted snow, rather than act...
Best of This Week on my LBC Show
- 18 Jan 2013
Every Friday on the blog I’m going to provide a few links to some of the interviews I have done over the previous seven days on my LBC show. Here are this week’s offerings. Book Club hour with Big Issue founder John Bird, talking about his book THE NECESSITY OF POVERTY and Ju...
The LibDem MEP Who Tweeted "Al Qaeda 1 David Cameron 0"
- 17 Jan 2013
This is a tweet just sent out by Liberal Democrat MP Graham Watson. What a disgusting thing to do. If you’d like to let him know what you think, tweet him @grahamwatsonmep. I wonder whether LibDems will have the good grace to tell him how he has brought their party into disr...
Miliband Whips Cameron at PMQs
- 16 Jan 2013
Well I hope the Prime Minister is on better form than that when he makes his big European speech on Friday. Ed Miliband whipped his sorry pink ass at PMQs today. He was funny, fluent and seemed in command of the House, which even his biggest supporters would acknowledge has n...
We're to Blame for HMV, Not the Government
- 16 Jan 2013
A lot has been written about the demise of HMV and yes, it is indeed very sad whenever a well known name like HMV goes into administration. But people need to remember that administration does not necessarily mean bankruptcy. Nipper hasn’t barked his last bark quite yet. It w...
The LibDem Flip-Flop on a European Referendum
- 15 Jan 2013
The hypocrisy of the LibDems can be truly astonishing. I suppose that is a statement of the bleeding obvious, but on Europe it is simply breathtaking. The way they are talking about David Cameron’s as yet unnannounced plans for a European referendum, you’d think he was announ...
Ignorance About Transsexualism Breeds Fear
- 15 Jan 2013
I was astonished to learn just before my programme went on air last night that The Observer had deleted Julie Burchill’s article (see previous post) from its website. Whatever one thought about it, it didn’t deserve that fate. By doing that The Observer has not only made a foo...
Suzanne Moore, Julie Burchill, Lynne Featherstone & Transsexuals - Time For Some Perspective
- 13 Jan 2013
Let me say from the start, that I have never been a fan of Julie Burchill. I started one of her books once but didn’t last long. Puerile rubbish. I’ve always thought her writing to be ordinary in the extreme, and have struggled to understand why she appears to be so popular. T...