If social networks are common spaces, they must be open to both left and right. Conservatives must take the lead to ensure oversight is fair.
If they’d bothered asking the Margaret Thatcher Centre, they’d have known it won’t take any taxpayers’ money.
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Karl Marx was "my father and teacher" – "the magnificent philosopher of working class violence". This helps to explain why the author of these words supported the formation of "vanguard minorities" which could "engage the sentiment, faith and will of irresolute masses": "instead of deluding the proletariat as to […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The Labour leader is constantly promising to stand up to vested interests and – as Stephan Shakespeare has pointed out – it's a powerful message at a time when voters are seeing their costs rise and their incomes fall. People have a sense that big banks, big energy companies […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Labour keep saying that the Tories have cut taxes on the rich but *overall* they haven't. The independent IFS says that top 10% earners are making the biggest contribution as a percentage of their incomes to deficit reduction. Via Twitter I managed (eventually) to get The Mirror's Kevin Maguire […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter ‘The website David Cameron doesn't want you to see’ is how left-wing activists are describing SearchTheMoney.com. The website is the brainchild of Laurence Durnan who created the Political Scrapbook blog, a relentlessly anti-Tory but not unamusing blog. The new SearchTheMoney website aims to make it simple for people to see […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Tim Montgomiere loved the Olympics opening ceremony. Aidan Burley MP…well, we know what he thought. I was rather cool about it, although I think that anyone who actually hated the event is likely to hate a big slice of modern Britain. And Philip Booth thinks it was a missed […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. It's Charles Dickens' 200th birthday today. To mark the occasion, each Cabinet member received a Dickens novel hand-picked by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt this morning. But there is one MP who will be celebrating the great writer's birthday more than most. That MP is Chris Williamson, who represents Derby […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter The BBC is reporting that Scottish Labour MP Tom Harris "has stated his interest in becoming the new Labour leader in Scotland.". Harris is firmly on the centre-left, and was one of Labour's star bloggers before leaving the blogosphere last year. He also stood, unsuccessfully, for the Shadow Cabinet elections […]
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter. The tweets of Chris Williamson, Labour MP for Derby North, speak for themselves*. The unrest last night followed the fatal shooting by local police of a 29-year-old man on Thursday. A protest at the shooting got out of hand. The BBC has more here. * Hat tip to […]
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter. Over at LabourList Luke Bozier is delivering a lot of home truths to his comrades: "Labour says the reason it created this fiscal mess was to save the country from a collapse of the banking system. But let's get real – the reason there's a deficit is because […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. In yesterday's Daily Mail I wrote about the Leader of the Opposition. You can read the piece here. Over at Liberal Conspiracy Sunny Hundal objected to my credentials and my arguments. Let me briefly respond to a few of his points… SH: "Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome is unfailingly polite […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Following last year's election defeat, there have been two sets of commentators on the left. On the one hand, the all-out, gung-ho "evil Tory cuts!" brigade, and on the other hand, the thoughtful contributors to the debate about Labour (and the left in general)'s future. I should apologise in […]
Tim Montgomerie Labour (and most of the Right) always thought of the Liberal Democrats as a left-wing party. Most LibDem activists still do and, earlier this week Jonathan Isaby wrote about the success of "Coalition-sceptics", like Tim Farron, in internal elections. On LabourList today, Anthony Painter has written about the end of the budding LibLab […]
I decided to make a personal stand, and demonstrate that there was a price to be paid for making such outrageous and inaccurate allegations.