Media portrayals of ex-servicemen and women as PTSD-riven criminals shapes public perceptions and hurts the prospects of those leaving the Armed Forces.
My fellow Conservatives and I were there in support of a social action project to help Ukrainian refugees.
And yet I can’t help yearning for proof that Britain still has it in her, and for a Prime Minister willing to make tough but necessary choices.
NATO has to accept that the Germans will never voluntarily take part in another war against the Russians.
Pride in our countryside can bring people together, and if we love more and understand it better, we will care for it well too.
Contrary to received wisdom, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour did not guarantee American entry into the European war.
But beware, Prime Minister: there is no divine right of parties any more than there was a divine right of kings.
Those in power seem to actively dislike the culture which has made Britain’s forces globally respected.
Mainly because people didn’t want troops to be there (or in the Middle East) in the first place.
We should take pride in seven decades of refugee protection, and it is a principle we must uphold in the future too.
Brexit doesn’t just allow the City to make its regulatory regime more competitive; it obliges it to do so.
The legislation introduced by the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 is still remarkably unchanged to this day.
Debates around this issue are conducted as if it were politicians’ own money at stake rather than taxpayers’.
We need a Free World Trade Organisation – a democratic alliance to achieve energy independence and control crucial supply chains