There is a lot of outrage being expressed in the papers and on-line about the so-called 'granny tax'. The way it was announced wasn't...

31 January 2012 The Most Reverend & Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York My Lord Archbishop, I am writing after reading...

The latest article I have written on the state of Europe and the Middle East is here. https://conservativehome.com/2011/11/02/ed-hall-eur...

Whilst we have a monarchy in Britain (and I see no real desire for an elected Presidency in this country) then we have to manage the...

My reviews of Tiffins in Fowey and Rick Stein's Fish and Chips in Falmouth couldn't be more different. One was fabulous: the other so...

The Eurosceptic in me is dying to say 'I told you so'. But as we watch the painful failure of linking so many divergent economies in...

With only 30 days to go until the start of the 2011 Fastnet Race it's started to occupy a lot of my thinking time. It's a 608 mile race...

Whilst the gossip and the leaked documents showing the scale of the battle between Blair and the failed Brown Revolution are interesting...

I wrote an article a few days ago for Conservative Home questioning the democratic issues raised by raising the Income Tax threshold. I...

First Past The Post is a simple, comprehensible and – most importantly – fair electoral system I wrote about the AV referendum on the...

I have a friend who has violently different politics to mine. We all have such friends I imagine unless we live in a very sheltered...

The world-class traffic jams in Mexico City are renowned around the globe, and they do leave the morning rush hour on the M25 looking...

We seem to be getting better at the early starts this season, which meant we were bobbing around off Gurnard ready for the smaller yachts...

Last weekend as we drove along the carretera that takes Mexico City dwellers south to Acapulco for the weekend, we passed through the...

We think we are all worried about the pensions 'time bomb' and the costs of managing an ever ageing population, but I think it's largely...