Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: The Naughty Table at the Margaret Thatcher Centre Dinner
- 30 Oct 2015
On Tuesday night I went to the Margaret Thatcher Centre dinner at the Guildhall, along with 400 others. What a fabulous venue. I had never been there before. It was quite an occasion and raised a huge amount of money to go towards funding the activities of the Centre. All the ...
New Statesman Diary: A Visit to Frankfurt & Being Nervous About Speaking German
- 24 Oct 2015
This week I have written a diary of the New Statesman. Here it is… * And so to the Frankfurt Book Fair. I’ve managed to escape going for the last four years, but this year I thought I’d better make the effort. My company, Biteback (publishers of THAT book on David ‘Hameron’) h...
ConHome Diary: When the PM Signed 'Call Me Dave' & A Tribute to Michael Meacher
- 23 Oct 2015
David Cameron seems to have become remarkably more relaxed about the Ashcroft/Oakeshott book CALL ME DAVE. On Monday he sat down in the Commons tea room with a group of Tory MPs for a chinwag, and noticed the book on the table. Keith Simpson had a copy as he is reviewing it fo...
Attitude Column: What Makes Long Term Relationships Work?
- 20 Oct 2015
At the end of August my partner, John, and I marked our twentieth anniversary together. In many ways this is unremarkable. Virtually every male couple I know are in very long term relationships – even friends of mine who are in their twenties or thirties seem to be destined to...
ConHome Diary: Sajid Javid's Charisma & Why Tom Watson Shouldn't Be Unreservedly Condemned
- 16 Oct 2015
It was obviously a cunning plan by the Prime Minister to let Jeremy Corbyn get the better of him at PMQs yesterday. A clear sign of the government’s ‘Keep Corbyn in Place’ plan. Clearly. * I’m writing this diary in my hotel room in Frankfurt, the very definition of a soulless ...
ConHome Diary: The Tory MP Who Imagines Boris & Putin Mudrestling
- 9 Oct 2015
The Conservative conference was never going to be exciting. Party strategists decided to make it as boring as possible. Yes, there would be the odd big policy announcement, but in general if the Tories could escape Manchester with no adverse headlines, it would be a job well d...
ConHome Diary: Number Ten Bans Ministers From Ashcroft Book Launch
- 2 Oct 2015
The Labour conference was an odd experience, but I suspect next year’s will be even odder. Out with the smart suited twenty something men. In with the Trots. That’s if Jeremy Corbyn survives that long. My own view is that he will, but it was astonishing that more or less every...
ConHome Diary: The Truth About Me, Michael Ashcroft, Isabel Oakeshott & THAT Book!
- 25 Sep 2015
Well, this week certainly has not been dull. And as with any roller coaster ride, it’s had its highs, its lows, and I’m still a bit dazed. I published and was then damned! Some of you will say, “serves you right, you shouldn’t publish books that question anything about David ...
ConHome Diary: Have the Corbyistas Learnt From the Cybernats?
- 18 Sep 2015
I really think some politicians are injected with some sort of serum before they go on the broadcast media, and that this serum turns normally sparkling, interesting people into complete drones whose only thought is to bore us to death about the long term economic plan and h...
ConHome Diary: Herding the Tory Mayoral Cats
- 11 Sep 2015
Herding cats is probably the best way of describing it. After hosting a Labour leadership debate and a Labour London mayoral hustings I expected the Conservative mayoral hustings to be a slightly more sedate affair. Boy was I wrong. It was spiky, tetchy and much more argumenta...