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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 It is a truth universally acknowledged that Gordon Brown is a tragic ditherer who can't even make up his mind on which is his favourite biscuit, right? Wrong. The famous bickie-question, apprently asked of the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Congratulations to Sunder Katwala of the Fabian Society, who has produced a survey revealing that all ten of the Top 10 Tory bloggers are climate change sceptics. Sunder says: "None of the top ten Conservative…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: A leading banking analyst describes Osborne's plans as "populist headline grabbing". UPDATE: British Bankers' Association chief executive Angela Knight, a former Tory Treasury minister, has queried the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Thursday's New York Times carried an important Op-ed from the Brooklyn-based foreign correspondent Roger Cohen, which has some interesting quotes from David Miliband and strong criticism of David Cameron's…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Official data this morning showed that the recession is now the longest since records began in 1955, after GDP fell by 0.4% in the third quarter of this year - the sixth consequtive quarter of contraction…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Nick Griffin's smug, sneering performance on Question Time was met with near unanimous mockery in the BBC studio, from the other panellists and now from the media and political blogosphere. The BNP leader…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 As Nick Griffin talks about the betrayal of the people by the political class tonight, about expense abuses and the way people have been let down by politicians, bear in mind that it is nothing more than a…
By Gary Kent Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams this week addressed the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in Swansea where he urged members of parliaments and assemblies in these islands "to join in the historic endeavour to bring about the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 William Hague is due to meet Hillary Clinton in Washington today and will be warned by the US Secretary of State that the Tories' alliances in Europe could undermine a Conservative government's ability to…
By Ann Black Below is a report covering the September NEC meeting, some conference highlights, and the latest list of selection decisions. As usual, please feel free to circulate. I'm particularly interested in comments on the conference…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 We all know that Michael Ashcroft is an influential figure in a world where, unfortunately, money still talks. Last month the Tory chairman invested £1.3milion in ConservativeHome and acquired a majority stake…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The dividing lines are drawn. There are 200 days until the general election. And now, as MPs return to Parliament tomorrow, we are entering into a long, bitter election campaign. Alastair Campbell says the…
