Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: SexChem on Sky News, Why Evan Harris is a Twat & Does Yvette Owe Zac's Team An Apology?
- 15 Apr 2016
I am a Sky News addict. The channel has some excellent presenters but recently the double headed morning show has become compulsive viewing. Colin Brazier and Jayne Secker have an onscreen chemistry which is quite unique. They are very flirtatious and clearly enjoy working tog...
ConHome Diary: The Ghost of Jo Moore Lives On, The Hypocrisy of The Guardian and My Frozen Shoulder
- 8 Apr 2016
On Wednesday afternoon I saw a newsalert flash up on my screen. “Government to spend £9.3 million on sending leaflet to 27 million homes”, it read. No, I thought, that can’t be right. After all David Cameron specifically ruled out the government doing such a thing back in Febr...
ConHome Diary: Silencing John Humphrys & The Thatcherite Who Believes in Nationalisation
- 1 Apr 2016
If I was compiling a Top Ten List of Ultra Thatcherites, and you know how I like my lists, Monmouth MP David Davies would be fairly high on it. So when I interviewed him about the steel crisis in Port Talbot, imagine my surprise when he told me he would be in favour of tempora...
ConHome Diary: The Defenestration of Suzanne Evans & The Rise of Michael Gove
- 25 Mar 2016
UKIP has finally flipped. On Wednesday morning they suspended Suzanne Evans for six months due to her so-called ‘disloyalty’. The aim of this was twofold – to take her off their GLA candidates list and to prevent her standing for the leadership if Nigel Farage quits after the ...
ConHome Diary: Why Ken Clarke's Publisher Deserves a P45
- 18 Mar 2016
Apparently my LBC colleague Steve Allen has been broadcasting his wonderment at the fact that I have snapped up Ken Clarke’s memoirs for the eye watering sum of £430,000. Except I haven’t. And I wouldn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to publish Ken Clarke and I am sure he will...
ConHome Diary: Zac Rediscovers His Mojo, The Naivety of Dan Jarvis & Could Suzanne Evans Rejoin the Tories?
- 11 Mar 2016
The London mayoral campaign continues apace, but I feel something has changed over the last few weeks. All the polls have shown Sadiq Khan quite a way ahead of Zac Goldsmith, although the latest one in the Standard shows the gap narrowing. It seems to me this campaign is mirro...
ConHome Diary: Labour Shows Again That It Has Given Up on Winning Elections
- 4 Mar 2016
Ben Gummer is a very good MP according to many friends of mine. I rather admired him for standing in a seat which is never going to be ‘safe’. He won Ipswich in 2010 by a majority of just over two thousand. Most predicted he would lose the seat to Labour in 2015, but he confou...
ConHome Diary: How Does Boris Get Away With It & Is Dave More Wilson Than Macmillan?
- 26 Feb 2016
Listening to the Prime Minister last Friday night, when he announced his EU deal, there’s no doubt that he talked a good game. He did it again on Marr and he did it again in the Commons on Monday. Whatever you think of the content of what he said, he’s at his best when his bac...
ConHome Diary: The LibDems Who Are Voting Out & The Exit of Tim Montgomerie
- 19 Feb 2016
On Newsnight Evan Davis called Tim Montgomerie “the most well-known Tory who isn’t an MP”. So his resignation as a Tory Party member is news, no matter what some might say. The editor of this site has described it as akin to ending a marriage. What Tim’s critics need to unders...
ConHome Diary: Zac Needs To Get Pumped Up
- 12 Feb 2016
The EU Referendum campaign continues albeit with the Prime Minister still rigging things in his favour. He still feels free to opine on the issue and yet bans any minister who takes a different view from speaking. His ridiculously pathetic attempt to scare us into believing th...