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Pig-ugly thinking
watch?v=OVxtQkyd91k I’m reluctant to admit it, but it took me a few days to build up the courage to watch Nick Boles’ planning piece on Wednesday’s Newsnight. In my defence I’d read a great deal of the...
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The Green Deal: making the conservative case
The week after the Green Deal was introduced, YouGov found that nearly 40 per cent of people had heard of it. I think that’s pretty good going for a government policy that doesn’t tell you much from...
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Why leaning in is part of a Conservative equalities agenda
The speakers at Bright Blue’s Families event ((c) Bright Blue) in Parliament on Monday evening Annoyingly I couldn’t make it to Bright Blue’s discussion yesterday evening on ‘whether the Conservative...
View ArticleAbolish DCMS? Yes please
The rumour that DCMS could be abolished is swirling again and again. Let’s hope so: it would be a good idea. On a practical level, many of its functions can easily sit elsewhere. Media regulation, for...
View ArticleHow to make complaining purposeful
I had a lovely meeting yesterday with someone I hadn’t met before. We were having a general chat about campaigning and actions and outcomes, and agreed that so often, people feel that liking something...
View ArticleMove over Big 6, we need the Big 60,000: Why Conservatives are the natural...
As we approach conference season, with the cost of living at the top of the political agenda and green policies under attack for their cost, energy policy is guaranteed to stay in the political spot...
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Are more garden cities the answer to our housing problems?
Map showing the Metropolitan Green Belt and other green belts of England Last week the Office for National Statistics published research found that commuters who spend between 60 and 120 minutes...
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Why environmentalism is conservative
Last week saw the re-launch of the Conservative Environment Network, an international initiative to promote conservative approaches to solving the world’s most challenging environmental problems. The...
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Why cyclists are Conservatives
I was riding my bike home from central London earlier this week when I noticed there were a lot of black cabs snarling things up in rather a big way. ‘Ahh,’ I thought to myself. ‘That’ll be the strike...
View ArticleTristram Hunt’s 1% and the working class young people who are still left behind
“Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it...
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