David Cameron lays out the Conservatives’ radical ideas for giving people the power and responsibility to help themselves and one another: That’s what we mean by the post-bureaucratic age: the satisfying clunk-click of political philosophy matching contemporary reality to produce a genuinely historic shift in how we organise our affairs. […]
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Tories leaving Europe’s EPP group
European Union reform comes one small step closer, though the BBC manage not to say so: David Cameron has come a step closer to fulfilling his pledge that the Tories will leave the centre-right grouping in the European Parliament. The Conservatives earlier informed the European People’s Party (EPP) that they […]
Read MoreDavid Cameron apologises for failing to hold Government to account over recession – Telegraph
The Conservative leader believes that the public will not trust him – or other politicians – unless they are “honest” about mistakes. He will issue the apology ahead of a series of speeches over the next few weeks detailing his party’s full economic strategy. via David Cameron apologises for failing […]
Read MoreGeorge Osborne: A different vision for our economy
George Osborne has stressed that Britain needs to move from an economy built on debt to one “powered by savings and real returns on effort”. … “With reform we can not only live within our means, we can start to tackle Britain’s long standing social problems of welfare dependency, educational […]
Read MoreDominic Grieve calls for fresh thinking on multiculturalism as he condemns a decade of political correctness
Dominic Grieve, the shadow Justice secretary, will today make a hard-hitting attack on political correctness and the Government’s failure to question damaging aspects of multiculturalism. But he also admits that the Right has so far failed to credibly address some of those issues. Speaking at Queen Mary, University of London, […]
Read MoreThe Convention on Modern Liberty
The Convention on Modern Liberty took place today. Shami Chakrabarti’s introductory speech was passionate, as it should be in the circumstances. The complaints against liberty in Britain today included: British complicity in extraordinary rendition The long period of pre-charge detention Control orders Extradition to the United States without equal reciprocal […]
Read MoreChris Grayling on law and order
Today, I listened to David Cameron introduce Chris Grayling for his first major speech as shadow home secretary. It was great stuff: heartfelt, tough and full of measures that will be welcomed. In his introduction, David Cameron explained the need for substantive solutions to serious problems. He discussed Conservative plans […]
Read MoreMan and nature: out of balance
For two centuries, since the Age of the Enlightenment, we assumed that whatever the advance of science, whatever the economic development, whatever the increase in human numbers, the world would go on much the same. That was progress. And that was what we wanted. Now we know that this is […]
Read More“The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain”
After first reporting on the book here, I have finally returned to read it in detail; it is Cromwellian: ‘I find the country bleeding, nay, almost dying,’ Oliver Cromwell told MPs in 1644. what made him angry was not simply that people were suffering, but that Parliament was part of […]
Read MoreZac Goldsmith on the Conservative agenda
“Politics is broken”, and how to fix it:
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