Simon Heffer's Blog, page 40

Will this man shrink our pensions?

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SIMON HEFFER: The Prime Minister's apparent determination to intervene in Syria reveals he has been seduced by the glamour of international statesmanship

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Bitter divisions within his party, and a left that can't take him seriously, mean that Ed Miliband is heading for a crash

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How our politicians have spent the last six decades betraying the Coronation dream

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Why Drummer Rigby's killers should be charged with treason

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The ugly truth is a smug Tory elite has sneered at the party faithful for decades

A measure of the bizarre political times in which we live is that the Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative party felt yesterday that he had to email his dwindling band of activists and urge them to believe how much he values them.

SIMON HEFFER: A serious contender? The grey man who could be David Cameron's nemesis

You may not have heard of Philip Hammond — there’s little reason why you should. After all, the Defence Secretary is not the most charismatic politician.

SIMON HEFFER: Think they can't axe David Cameron? Don't bet on it

These are particularly turbulent times for the Tories. Despite claiming to have learned from the defection of many thousands of their traditional voters to UKIP in the council elections, the party’s leadership has failed to act.

The gentle giant of British cinema: If he'd been a Yank, he'd have won Oscars galore. If he'd been a Leftie, he'd have been knighted. Why Bryan Forbes was a cruelly unsung genius

To some film fans, he was an actor of sublime talent. To others, he will be remembered as a writer and director of great insight and psychological power.

SIMON HEFFER: There's only one way for Dave to stub out Farage

With characteristic obstinacy, David Cameron refused over the past few years to react to the defection of thousands of natural Tories to Ukip.