Dementia Awareness Week should promote the... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings This week is Dementia Awareness Week; a time to reflect on the huge numbers of people with this illness who are living in care homes which have nothing to offer their residents beyond the most basic of care. I have visited too many of these sorts of “homes” and been shocked to see elderly residents, [...] 4 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

On gay marriage and Europe, David Cameron ... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings Most of us are familiar with the dreamy sensation of sitting in a carriage on a railway platform waiting for our train to depart. At length, the journey appears to begin and our train in motion. Suddenly, with a bit of a jolt, we realise that it’s all an optical illusion. Our train is still [...] 4 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Gay marriage and David Cameron: what he co... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings There’s a scene from the first season of the West Wing when Josh Lyman tells President Bartlet: “We talk about enemies more than we used to.” It’s either touching or cloying, depending on your perspective, but either way, it touches on an essential truth of politics: to govern is to make enemies. For better or [...] 4 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Richard Beeston: the finest foreign corres... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings The death of my dear friend Rick Beeston over the weekend has deprived British journalism of one of its finest exponents. From the moment the fresh-faced young Rick appeared in Beirut during the darkest days of the Lebanese civil war in 1985 (I was charged by the Telegraph foreign desk with the unenviable task of taking [...] 4 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

The real swivel-eyed loons are inside Numb... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings The swivel-eyed loons are surely in Number 10, not outside it. Month after month, David Cameron’s premiership expose him and his inner circle as even more out of touch than we thought possible. Politics is about working with others in order to change things for a greater good. Yet Cameron’s close network of friends and [...] 4 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Even Trevor Phillips agrees: the intoleran... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings Trevor Phillips, former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, is one of the great and good. He is also bright, black and appealingly honest. The fact that he is black matters: it frees Phillips to say things – about the drawbacks of multiculturalism, for instance – which a white, middle-aged man in his [...] 5 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Geoffrey Howe did for Margaret Thatcher – ... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings Back in his glory days, Geoffrey Howe managed to separate the Conservative leader, Margaret Thatcher, from her party. Now he seems anxious to separate the Conservative Party from its present leader, David Cameron. Writing in yesterday’s Observer, he accused Mr Cameron of cowardice in the face of the Eurosceptic enemy. The Prime Minister, he said, [...] 5 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Gay marriage chaos: Peter Tatchell and Tor... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings It’s a measure of just how messy and convoluted the gay marriage debate has become that opponents of same-sex marriage will tonight vote for an amendment supported by Peter Tatchell. I thought Tatchell might back away from his support for heterosexual civil partnerships, given that it’s inspired a “wrecking amendment” – but I should have [...] 5 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Cartoon Caption Competition – last chance ... blogs.telegraph.co.uk listings Get your cartoon caption cap on, it’s your last chance to enter the competition before it closes this afternoon. To recap: The Telegraph Cartoon Caption Competition is a weekly bit of light relief – with a prize! Every Thursday I will post a cartoon relating to that week’s news. It may be straightforward, it may [...] 5 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

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