Articles tagged Guardian Column:
Guardian Column: The Brady Resignation Should Never Have Been Allowed to Happen
- 30 May 2007
If you believed the spin George Osborne’s speech today on the battle for public service reform was only about the Cameron Conservatives being the supposed ‘heir to Blair’. It wasn’t. It was far more than that. The trouble is that few Tory supporters or members will ever read i...
Guardian Column: Politicians Should be Honest about Election Results
- 4 May 2007
I never fail to understand why politicians can’t be honest about election results. Tell it like it is and you cannot fail to gain the respect of those who are watching you. Watching the TV this morning you’d think that the LibDems had, at worst, held steady. So far the...
Guardian Column: Waste of a Queen's Speech
- 15 Nov 2006
This Queen’s Speech has all the stench of a government in decay and on the way out. Listening to the stream of Ministers talking it up on 5 Live you would think the Government was still hugely popular, the Prime Minister is at the peak of his powers and that the Bills in the Q...
Guardian Column: Has the Conservative Party Changed?
- 29 Sep 2006
I’ve been attending Tory Conferences since the mid 1980s. Until last year I had enjoyed every one of them, to one degree or another. If I tell you that at last year’s conference I was working as Chief of Staff to David Davis, you may get an inkling as to why it wasn’t exactly ...
Guardian Column: Kinder, Gentler...
- 11 Nov 2003
When George Bush senior said in his inaugural speech that he wanted his Presidency to represent a ‘kinder, gentler America’ he could hardly have foreseen that his vision would be turned into reality so quickly – not just in America but in Britain too. Yeah, right, I hear you ...