The Telegraph June 23rd, 2020 We do not just need to protect statues, as creativity risks being sterilised and purged of anything that could cause offence to anyone. We live in the strangest of times. While the Department of Justice seeks to introduce new laws to protect our national heritage, Britain in 2020 is […]
Conservative Home May 17th, 2020 An article written in response to another published the previous day in support of an early return to Parliament and abandonment of the ‘hybrid’ process whereby MPs can appear in person or via the internet. I very rarely disagree with Andrew Gimson and even more rarely do I not see […]
The Telegraph April 24th, 2020 Once in a generation or so, cataclysmic events transpire which shape the future in unimaginable ways. This pandemic is one such event. Just as we separate the periods of terrorism between pre and post 9/11, history might well divide our society into pre and post Coronavirus eras. But the […]
Conservative Home April 17th, 2020 Donald Trump’s decision to halt US funding to the World Health Organization over its mishandling of the Coronavirus pandemic is just the latest in a long line of spats between the US and the UN and its agencies. With Donald Trump at the helm, there is now even a […]
Thursday April 9th, 2020 What has happened to Boris shows that anyone can catch Covid-19. “Our behaviour as individuals will be key to halting the coronavirus”, says Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant writing for the Mercury It was terrible, if not frightening, to hear that Boris Johnson had been taken into intensive care. Whether you […]
Thursday March 26th, 2020 There will be darkness before there is light but we will get through this “It will get worse before it gets better, but we will get over this”, says Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant writing for the Mercury Perhaps more than any other health service worldwide, the NHS has conducted extensive […]
The Telegraph February 4th, 2020 Today, Julian Braithwaite created a little piece of history. He delivered the United Kingdom’s first statement to the World Trade Organisation. We had been hugely influential in the WTO’s predecessor, GATT, but have since been muzzled by our membership of the EU. Today, Mr Braithwaite was able to speak […]
The Telegraph January 29th, 2020 Compromise is a great British tradition. Often maligned, it is nonetheless sometimes the only way forward, as we saw with Brexit. The perfect need not be the enemy of the good. The decision taken on Huawei and our 5G Networks, while difficult, nonetheless protects British national security while also […]
The Telegraph January 13th, 2020 The killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani by an American drone strike has been condemned by European politicians as a provocative, reckless action by an ever increasingly loony President Donald Trump. Au contraire. The action was not only defensive, but entirely justified, and the UK should do all we […]
Lichfield Mercury This has been a very different run up to Christmas from usual. So this is going to be a rather different Christmas message from the ones I usually write for the Mercury. After all, the last time we had a General Election in December was 109 years ago. So I would like […]