Plus: CCHQ goes all Goebbels. I announce my peerage – replacing Lord Ashcroft. My political bias. Good luck to agents. And: am I an egotistical knob?
Politics is “a noble calling”. And in praise of Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Burke and Louis Armstrong.
“So you don’t arrive at a decision because you’re a barrister and therefore you favour the bar or because you’re a solicitor and therefore you favour the solicitors’ firms.”
The two main parties are making a big mistake by pitching their appeal at supporters of two minor ones – UKIP and the Greens.
Whether English votes for English laws gets through the Commons or not, we need a constitutional convention to give wider reform legitimacy.
Peers should vote at the start of each parliament by secret ballot using the single transferable voting (STV) system.
For all that her works were about death, her true topics were life and love.
Is it fascination? Or a reaction to religion’s influence? Either way, a more tolerant approach would be welcome.
And: Clegg – where is he? Simmonds – what’s he on? ISIS: they have no Islamic state and we should bomb them. Plus: The new peerages – on the whole, a mistake.
Not acting on the terms of the Coalition Agreement isn’t simply a breach – it’s poor politics.
Whatever your preferred system for appointing Peers, the simple fact is there are far too many of them already.
We Conservatives should instinctively support the passing of fewer Acts of Parliament and better, more extensive scrutiny of legislation.