The Centre Left has come by the following confidential letter, apparently written in the early hours of this morning following yesterday’s local elections: 10 DOWNING STREET LONDON SW1A 2AA THE PRIME MINISTER 06 May 2011 Dear Nick, Just a quick note: I really wanted to say how sorry I am about the election results. Gutted… Continue reading To my favourite lightning conductor
Category: Tories
New Labour is dead. New Britain, still worth fighting for
After the weekend’s national outpouring of sentiment, I want to take you back to another, earlier one. Almost exactly fourteen years to the day, on the 2nd May, 1997, a new dawn had broken – had it not? – at the foot of Millbank Tower. It was a day when, no matter in which pew… Continue reading New Labour is dead. New Britain, still worth fighting for
Cameron’s new weapon: the Portuguese man-o-war
Read my first-ever article for Progress, on the Tories’ clever use of the Euro crisis, here.