Simon Heffer's Blog, page 31

SIMON HEFFER: How to beat UKIP, Dave? Give us a vote on the EU NEXT year

Often, I despair of David Cameron’s efforts to secure a Conservative victory in next May’s general election.

SIMON HEFFER: Why should the English pay to fix the NHS disaster in Wales?

Warning: A Labour government under Ed Miliband cannot be trusted with the English NHS

SIMON HEFFER: Cop killer Harry Roberts should die in prison - but politicians are powerless to stop his release after bowing to human rights laws

Dangerous: Simon Heffer expresses regret that Harry Roberts could not have been hanged

It is an insult to voters to suggest we don't know the NHS needs urgent reform

Although the main political parties plan to use next May’s general election as the opportunity to offer voters a choice on which would be the better guardian of the NHS, they are both being very disingenuous.

Louts in Lycra MUST be made to have licence plates: After nearly being mown down by a cyclist, an incandescent SIMON HEFFER has a demand

Some of my best friends are cyclists. I have long listened with genuine sympathy to their tales of horror as, trying to weave their way through towns and cities, they become invisible to drivers of motor vehicles - especially very big ones - and have endless brushes with mutilation or...

A real human being I could vote for: Alan Johnson's memoirs reveal a deeply principled working-class hero

Alan Johnson identified as possible replacement for leader Ed Miliband His background as postman and union leader reveals deeply held principles Mr Johnson a genuine and honest politician widely respected by Tory voters

SIMON HEFFER: Migrants under camper-vans and the crisis of Britain's porous borders

Jacky Goodfellow didn’t expect to find a migrant sitting on her driveway in Kent when she arrived home from Tesco this week. But there was one there all the same. Taking pity on the young Eritrean, she gave him a chocolate bar before summoning the police.

Wish you were living in the Sixties? You must be mad. It was a ghastly decade

Things must be even worse than I thought if one-third of my fellow Britons would, according to a poll, rather live in the so-called ‘Swinging Sixties’ than in the present day.

SIMON HEFFER: Why Dave should BOAST about wanting to make us richer

The vacuous, self-regarding keynote speech Ed Miliband made this week at Labour’s conference made him look more like a teenage student union bore than a prime minister in waiting.

What Ed Miliband fails to grasp about the English is that liberty runs through our DNA

'Mr Miliband doesn’t seem to get the English, or Englishness, at all'