Articles tagged Personal:
Charity Auction: Join Me in the Directors' Box at West Ham & Help Underprivileged Children
- 8 Oct 2014
Global Radio, the company which owns LBC, has formed a new charity to help underprivileged children called MAKE SOME NOISE. The big fundraising day is this Thursday, tomorrow, and one of the prizes is one which I asked David Sullivan to put up and he very kindly agreed to do s...
Attitude Column: Vanity, Vanity, All Is Vanity
- 20 Aug 2014
OK, I admit it. I am as vain as the next man. And let’s face it, nowadays men are probably just as vain as women, and in many cases even more so. Whether it’s about our hair, skin, beard trim, or the way our pubes look, we care. Not just care, but care obsessively in many case...
My Memory of 7/7
- 7 Jul 2014
I don’t know if you remember where you were on the morning of the 7th July 2005 when you heard the news of the terrorist bombings in London. I was sitting at my desk in the House of Commons (for the uninitiated, I was working for David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary) and a c...
Attitude Column: The Perils of Stereotyping the Gays
- 3 Jul 2014
I don’t know about you but I find it incredibly frustrating that the old gay stereotypes still remain, and from what I can work out they probably always will. We’re all either incredibly camp, have lots of facial and stomach hair, and probably sleep with any other male that sh...
A Mother's Love
- 25 Jun 2014
Two years ago today we buried our mother and I gave the eulogy at her funeral. It was an awful day, yet there was also something fantastic about it. The fact that two hundred or so people gathered to honour her and the way she lived her life was something to behold. It was a ...
There Are No Words
- 17 Jun 2014
I’ve felt very sad today. A friend of mine, Joe Pike, moved to Scotland not that long ago. I was sad to see him go, but it was the right move for him. I saw him a couple of months ago when he was in London on a flying visit. He’d met someone who he hoped to build a future with...
Attitude Column: Would I Have Been a Good Dad?
- 27 Feb 2014
Call me a hard hearted bastard but I have never wanted children. My nieces refer to me as ‘Uncle Herod’ so perhaps it’s just as well. Some of us have the child-rearing gene and others of us don’t. My partner would love to have had children and it’s only recently that I have co...
It's Thank You and Good Bye to Grant Tucker
- 21 Jan 2014
Four and a half years ago I first met Grant Tucker. He was introduced to me by Dawn Parry, who was then the Conservative candidate for Newport, in South Wales. It was at the Tory Party conference and he was very interested in how I knew Margaret Thatcher and what I thought of ...
Why I Have Quit My ConHome Diary Column
- 10 Jan 2014
Last year I didn’t have a two week holiday. Yes, I took time off, but only a few days at a time. By the end of the year I was completely exhausted. Knackered. It was mostly my own fault in that in addition to my two jobs at Biteback and LBC I would take on other work too, and...
Remembering Simon Hoggart
- 6 Jan 2014
Simon Hoggart was one of the people who sparked my interest in politics back in the late 1970s. Along with Frank Johnson he was brilliant in poking fun at politics and politicians in his Punch sketches and I remember one of the first political books I ever bought was his coll...