Assassinating Kennedy
Just as the Tories finally appear to have turned (another) corner, the Lib Dems have helpfully decided to self-destruct by generating a new leadership crisis of their very own.
Charles Kennedy is (in terms of raw statistics) the most successful Liberal leader for eighty years. He is also widely regarded as having under-performed and not up [...]
The Met-Sponsored Festival of Hate
A colleague brought this to my attention as something particularly shocking. In fact I had already read it but the really shocking thing for me is how much I have come to take this kind of thing for granted. You must know what you are getting these days at any event featuring the treacherous hatemonger [...]
Congratulations
…to David Cameron, of course, for a campaign well-fought and well won. He’s proved he was more than up to the campaign. Now let’s hope he’s up to the job of leading the Conservative Party.
Congratulations also to David Davis, for making a very much better job of the second part of the campaign than he [...]