If you find any of these posts relevant to some of the social or political issues of the moment do leave a comment or contact me directly (click on my photo for my contact details)
Blog Stats
- 105,212 hits
-
Join 86 other subscribers
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Top Rated
Categories
- Afghanistan (27)
- Brighton & Hove (856)
- Casey Review (5)
- Charities (526)
- Church Teaching (232)
- Community Safety (289)
- Data Retention and Investigatory Powers (17)
- Deaf & Hard of Hearing (62)
- Economics (556)
- Education (487)
- Environment (222)
- EU Referendum (554)
- Health Reform (137)
- Housing (87)
- Immigration (126)
- Journalism (130)
- Justice Issues (221)
- Lobbying Bill (65)
- Network Rail (64)
- Obituary (22)
- Parliament and Democracy (3,659)
- Phone Hacking (7)
- Planning Rules (57)
- Police & Crime Commissioner (207)
- Policing (412)
- Scottish Referendum (23)
- STEM (68)
- Syria (90)
- Think Tanks (15)
- UK Riots in August 2011 (15)
- Ukraine (17)
- Uncategorized (61)
- Welfare Reform (72)
- Yemen (44)
- Youth Issues (499)
Twitter Updates
Tweets by IanChisnall- Amber Rudd
- Andrew Griffith
- Boris Johnson
- Brexit
- Brighton & Hove
- Brighton & Hove City Council
- C-19
- Caroline Ansell
- Caroline Lucas
- Charities
- Charity Commission
- Charity Commission for England and Wales
- Chris Grayling
- Conservative Party
- Coronavirus
- COVID-19
- Daniel Hannan
- David Cameron
- David Davis
- Department for Education
- Donald Trump
- e-petition
- Eric Pickles
- EU Referendum
- European Union
- FareShare
- Foodbanks
- George Osborne
- Gillian Keegan
- Government
- Green Party
- Henry Smith
- Home Office
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Huw Merriman
- Iain Duncan Smith
- Independent Candidates
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Jeremy Hunt
- Jeremy Quin
- Katy Bourne
- Keir Starmer
- Labour Party
- Lib Dem Party
- Liz Truss
- Lloyd Russell-Moyle
- Lobbying Bill
- Maria Caulfield
- Matthew Hancock
- Member of Parliament
- Michael Gove
- MPs
- NHS
- Nick Gibb
- Nigel Farage
- Nusrat Ghani
- Parliament
- Peter Bottomley
- Peter Kyle
- Police and Crime Commissioner
- Priti Patel
- Rishi Sunak
- Sajid Javid MP
- Sally-Ann Hart
- Small Businesses
- SME
- Steve Bassam
- Sussex
- Sussex Police
- Syria
- Theresa May
- Tim Loughton
- UKIP
Tag Archives: Conservative Party
A failure to understand?
With the Labour conference over, the next point in the Political calendar is in Birmingham when the Conservative party will gather. On Monday evening, a group of political activists will be in attendance at the Malt House pub just around … Continue reading
Let US regain OUR sovereignty
As the political system whirrs back into life with the MPs returning en masse to the House of Commons, issues which were never properly dealt with in July are now being re-examined and debated again. We voted to leave the … Continue reading
Political leadership we don’t need
One of the deeply anti-democratic elements of the system that elects British MEPs is that the those who are on the top of the list of parties that have widespread support are guaranteed (or have been guaranteed) that they will … Continue reading
We now need leadership
The challenge of leading a nation that has just voted to have 45% of its economic transactions made more uncertain and now needs to completely redesign its governmental processes and structures must not be underestimated. The idea that anyone has a … Continue reading
Policing and Politics
When the coalition Government introduced the Police and Crime Commissioner post, many people in policing were concerned that the involvement of Party Politics in the Governance of Policing would cause problems. The extent to which Independent candidates were elected in … Continue reading
In whose name?
The pathetic and ridiculous over reaction by the Vote Leave campaign over the decision by ITV to invite Nigel Farage to debate the EU with David Cameron reveals an insight into the way in which such debates and hustings are … Continue reading
Disorganised administration?
The idea that a major political party can operate without effective administration is completely risible. The way in which modern political parties operate and the amount of money they spend from the public purse, let alone from powerful donors to … Continue reading
We need a fairer society
It is clear from this graph that the experience of those involved at the top of FTSE100 companies is very different from the lives of many of those who really do create wealth in this country. Yet whenever Government Ministers speak about … Continue reading
Adolescence in Government
Almost a year since the General Election that gave jobs to men and women most of whom had already been Ministers for 5 years it is disturbing to watch how so much of their decision making and posturing is adolescent in nature. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Environment, Health Reform, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Amber Rudd, Conservative Party, David Cameron, Easter, Education, Environment, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, Nicky Morgan
2 Comments
Why Tim’s decision matters
The news that Tim Montgomerie, founder of Conservative Home blog is to leave the Conservative Party after 28 years is a matter of significance to our national political life. Not because he is personally important to the future of the … Continue reading
