Articles tagged Diary:
Attitude Column: The Trans Agenda Shows That The Fight For Equality Is Far From Over
- 17 Jun 2016
With the advent of equal marriage and all sorts of other pieces of gay friendly legislation it’s easy to reach the conclusion that the battles of the past are over. I think that’s a fairly complacent view when you look at issues that still remain over gay discrimination and bu...
ConHome Diary: Leave Sarah Alone & the Politics of Protest
- 12 Jun 2016
Sarah Wollaston’s defection from LEAVE to REMAIN has attracted much comment. When she joined LEAVE many were surprised as they had always considered her to be pro-EU. But she eloquently explained her reasons and the LEAVE camp were highly delighted. Some believe she was a REMA...
ConHome Diary: A Comeback for Dr Fox & Where's Theresa?
- 3 Jun 2016
Last week I wrote that I thought Andrea Leadsom had been a star of the Leave campaign. Let me this week sing the praises of Liam Fox. In terms of putting the Leave case, he has been calm, assured and believable. He hasn’t indulged in stoking up ‘Project Fear’ and has been exce...
The Self Indulgence of Some Tory MPs
- 29 May 2016
All political parties go through spasms, but the Conservative Party seems to suffer from them more than most. It is about to have another one. It was inevitable that the EU Referendum campaign would divide the party. With 143 Tory MPs defying their leader and supporting Brexi...
ConHome Diary: A Good War for Andrea Leadsom & Do I Mix With the Wrong People?
- 27 May 2016
As you can imagine, as a radio presenter I do like to keep an eye on the opposition, so it was with more than a passing interest when I read this tweet from BBC Radio London’s Drivetime reporter Anna O’Neill. We are talking about #bedwetting on Drive BBCRadioLondon</a&g...
ConHome Diary: Interviewing the PM, Winning an Award & the Coming Reshuffle
- 20 May 2016
So there I am, at the Roundhouse in Camden, shortlisted for Radio Presenter of the Year, thinking that I haven’t got a hope in hell of winning. I was up against Frank Skinner, Christian O’Connell, John Suchet and the unlikely sounding duo of Boogie & Dingo. Nope me, neit...
ConHome Diary: Tories Must Heed the Sadiq Warning & Farage Would Outperform Boris & Gove in Debates
- 13 May 2016
What a pity Vote Leave are getting their knickers in a twist with ITV over the fact that ITV have asked Nigel Farage to be on the same programme as David Cameron, rather than one of the big beasts of Vote Leave. It’s symptomatic of the splintering of the OUT side of the argume...
ConHome Diary: The Dangers of TTIP, Gove Pillow Talk & How We Have 'Misunderestimated' The Donald
- 6 May 2016
If I were Dominic Cummings (and there’s a thought) I’d be deploying the acronym TTIP as a major part of the LEAVE campaign. The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership is a very boring sounding free trade agreement between the US and the EU. From what I know about it,...
ConHome Diary: Is the London Mayoral Race Really Over & How Obama Backfired
- 29 Apr 2016
Well that went well then. President Obama’s visit seems to have turned people marginally against the REMAIN campaign, with the latest batch of polls showing a narrow LEAVE lead. I can’t say I am surprised. Virtually every ‘normal’ person I have spoken to, and by ‘normal’ I mea...
ConHome Diary: The 'Leave' Campaign Needs to Unite and Up Its Game
- 23 Apr 2016
If you are part of a campaign to try to say something, you don’t just have to win the argument, you have to win people’s hearts and minds. As usual, the Republican movement got it totally wrong yesterday on the Queen’s 90th birthday. Instead of wishing Her Majesty a happy birt...