Simon Heffer's Blog, page 7

Labour will be ungovernable after June 8. Its moderates must split, and soon

T he word from Labour���s front line is so depressing for the party that its sub-Marxist manifesto has largely become irrelevant. For many candidates, the question is now of personal survival, and of what they and others like them do on June 9, having registered a presumably apocalyptic defeat.

The Conservatives are no longer Cavaliers. But what kind of roundhead is Theresa May?

W hat is so remarkable about the Conservative manifesto is not how the party has gone from being Cavaliers to Roundheads in under a year , but why Mrs May has felt the need to break so violently with the past to ensure victory. As a Roundhead myself, I entirely...

What makes the perfect war memorial?

I n the 20th century, the western world had to learn a new form of funerary art: the war memorial. We can see them in our churches and on village greens, in schools and public buildings. On the battlefields of Europe, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission continues to maintain the...

Labour's plans would literally and morally bankrupt our country

Y ou can���t state the bleeding obvious often enough, so it was right for Mrs May to go to the North East on Friday and announce that if you are a sensible former Labour voter ��� in other words, not the sort of middle-class Trotskyist who has never grown out...

As a friend of the BBC, I offer this warning: do not drift too far from the British public

I n recent days Barry Gardiner, a Labour candidate and one of Jeremy Corbyn���s main attack dogs , has been savaging the BBC for alleged bias in its coverage of the election. He has howled down presenters for misrepresenting or trivialising his party���s plans for government. Given those plans, he...

Nicola Sturgeon is finally heading towards where she belongs ��� the electoral dustbin

L abour���s evaporation in Scotland reinforces my view that the Scots face an enviable choice on June 8, and one which makes the general election there more exciting than perhaps anywhere else in the Kingdom.

Theresa May must be bold like Margaret Thatcher and use a landslide victory to fix Britian

T he local election results must not, pollsters tell us, be taken as an indication of what will happen on June 8. In one sense they are right: they don���t include London, an increasingly counter-cultural city that will return various barking mad Labour MPs and, even more eccentrically, perhaps even...

Passchendaele: the political wagers behind a bloody stalemate

Simon Heffer reviews Passchendaele by Nick Lloyd

Such a shame cricket can no longer accommodate Zafar Ansari and other striving minds

T here were many reasons to be saddened by the news that Zafar Ansari, at just 25 and a few months after his Test debut, has decided to retire . We shall never know how great his talent might have become. Given we seem largely incapable of producing slow bowlers,...

Who would vote for the Liberal Democrats, a party whose name itself is a lie?

M y high regard for the intelligence and the patience of my readers means I try not to write about the Liberal Democrats. However, having heard how some people ��� including one-time Tory voters ��� are considering supporting this absurd, compromised and dishonest party in order to achieve something called...