Boris tells the Tories that Europe isn’t e... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings From my Morning Briefing email. Sign up here David Cameron is in Washington to help negotiate an EU trade deal with the Obama administration. Back in London his colleagues are advancing the case for leaving the EU. In Washington Dave leads (is that the right word these days?) a government for which British membership of [...] 6 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Reading in bed and soaring to heaven blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings I can’t read in bed; I’m usually too tired. But I do like dipping into a spiritual book each night – a few seconds’  deepening of consciousness before I lose consciousness. At the moment I’m picking through the cherries of Richard Harries’s book of essays “God outside the Box: why spiritual people object to Christianity”. [...] 6 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Michael Gove and Philip Hammond would vote... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings Inevitably, the declarations by Michael Gove and Philip Hammond that they will vote to leave the EU unless better terms can be secured are being covered in a hackneyed, retro-nineties, ‘Tory splits’ manner. In fact, neither man has said anything out of the ordinary. I mean, imagine that they had said the opposite. Suppose that, in [...] 6 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

On reflection, Tony, you were not the grea... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings From Monday’s Daily Telegraph When I read Leo Abse’s biography of Tony Blair, one detail struck me in particular: an aide claimed that Mr Blair, in his official car, was forever checking the vanity mirror. It came back to me yesterday when I read that the former prime minister has confessed in an interview to [...] 6 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Fracking: will it not bring a bonanza, aft... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings Protesters have been gathering at both ends of the country this weekend to draw up plans to resist proposals to drill for shale oil and gas. As described in my latest Telegraph column it could well be the biggest environmental battle of the coming decade. But will it all be worth it? 6 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Michael Gove makes clever intervention on ... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings By Gove, the education secretary is becoming a classy media performer. His interview on the Marr programme on Sunday produced several news stories tailor-made to liven up the life of news editor on a Sunday. Gove used to be a news editor himself. First, there was a wonderful assault on the Lib Dems, when he [...] 6 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Tory splits on Europe are nothing compared... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings Disagreements within the Conservative Party about Europe dominate the headlines this morning, but it’s a storm in a teacup compared to Labour’s deep ideological divisions. On the three most important areas of public policy – the economy, welfare and education – the Tories are of one mind, whereas Labour is split down the middle. The [...] 7 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

First they came for the jelly-wrestlers… blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings Online petitions are one of the curses of our age. They’re a curse, of course, because the people they’re invariably aimed at are shrill, bitter lefties who’ve got nothing better to do with their rancid, soapless, job-free lives than sign petitions calling for stuff to be banned. Sometimes, though, you have to fight fire with [...] 7 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Our monarch has a tough job, reciting the ... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings She cleared her throat, and began. “My lords and members of the House of Commons. My Government’s legislative programme will continue to focus on building a stronger economy so that the United Kingdom can compete and succeed in the world…” Her concentration wandered for a moment. How, she thought, can I be expected to say [...] 7 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

I am become death, destroyer of worlds blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings I’ve been accused by some of irresponsibility for highlighting IMF forecasts which, if right, plainly indicate that Spain is insolvent, and will need a big sovereign/banking debt restructuring at some stage. This leads to the obvious conclusion, spelt out in the headline to my blog, that you should get your money out while you still [...] 7 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story