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The huge challenges for Alzheimer’s research
Alzheimer's research is a subject very close to my heart, so I was pleased to see it was included as a topic at one of the fringe meetings at the Conservative Party conferences. Prof Clive Ballard, Director of Research for the Alzheimer's Society, describes in this...
The race for SW Norfolk
I am delighted to learn that James Tumbridge has made it through to the final stage of the selection as Conservative parliamentary candidate for South West Norfolk. He stood in Ian Gibson’s seat in Norwich North in 2005 – recently won by Chloe Smith who makes her...
The Tories and The Times
Perhaps the editor of The Times had further damaging revelations about MPs expenses in mind when he refused to back the Tories in the same way as The Sun. There were whisperings all week at the Conservative conference about another expenses scandal which was going to...
Fixing our broken society
I was totally bowled over by this powerful video at the opening of the Conservative Party conference. What a great build up for Eric Pickles to walk on stage and address his "chums". It encapsulates everything that is wrong with our society today and why change is...
Did Manchester like us?
I was keen to know if holding the Conservative conference in Manchester had influenced local voters at all, whether they were more likely to support us. I very much doubt it. I asked a group of commuters at the tram station about this and it was impossible to gain any...
My YouTube of Guido on Cameron’s speech
I spotted Guido Fawkes - the man who claimed the scalps of Derek Draper and Damien McBride in the Smeargate scandal - as he left the Conservative conference and asked his views about David Cameron's speech. I finished by asking whether he would vote Conservative....
Happy birthday David Cameron
I hope David Cameron treats himself to a well earned glass of champagne today to celebrate his 43rd birthday, well out of the sight of the paparazzo's prying telephoto lenses, of course. That makes him a Libran, and I have it on good authority that his rising sign is...
“We are all in this together”
Trying to convince a nation that "we are all in this together" - the catch prase of George Osborne's key conference speech today - is going to be hard work as countless people who were faultless find their lives ruined by today's economic downturn due to the actions...
The Times and Tory support
A hiss could be heard when The Editor of The Times, James Harding, refused to pledge his paper's support to the Conservative Party for the next election. He was asked today at a fringe meeting whether he would follow the lead of The Sun, but he made it clear that he...