Norman Tebbit was born to working class parents on March 29th 1931. He was bright and won a place at Edmonton County Grammar School. He left school aged sixteen and got a job working for the Financial Times. He had to join NATSOPA and developed an intense dislike of union power and vowed to "break the power of the closed shop". He was called up in ...
The Tory party having abandoned Conservatism is now drifting like a metaphorical Marie Celeste. From the Heroic 80 seats to a potential near zero. An updated story of "From Hero to Zero". Rishi Sunak having usurped the leadership plays Captain Ahab uninterested in the calamity he has unleashed. The plan is working he cries while the Tempest rages. ...
Boris Johnson's fall is due to a combination of factors. The man who was London's Mayor for eight years seems to have forgotten the reason for that success. He chose able lieutenants to implement his policy. As Prime Minister he desperately needed them. Without them, everything from BREXIT to Tax Cuts stalled and it seemed increasingly that the gov...