Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Yesterday The Spectator's Fraser Nelson claimed that the possibility of a Tory Government is all that is preventing the UK losing its AAA credit rating: “Fitch Ratings has today said that Britain’s AAA debt rating is more at risk than that of any other major nation because it needs “the largest ...
Mark's any musings (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
http://j.mp/eVamc Fraser Nelson on the welfare trap. The readers comments on the accompanying article show that folks don't get it - it is, as Deming would say, the system that drives the behaviour of the people. Hopefully this view of the welfare state and it's clients is gaining a foothold. (shame about FN's idocy re AIDS)
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... of the sort has registered on Planet Mel. Oh well, never mind – if The Spectator’s editor, Fraser Nelson, missed out on the evolution denial boat there’ll be other opportunities to revive other long discredited ideas in due course. The welcome revival of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee and their upcoming review of the evidence base for homoeopathic products and...
Unenlightened Commentary. (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
The Spectator's editor Fraser Nelson is flirting with HIV-Aids denialism which is unfortunate for two reasons. Firstly it means that Sunny Hundal is largely correct about something and secondly it gives credence to dangerous psuedo-science. It is dangerous, several converts to Aids denialism have ended up dying because they refused treatment for their illness, denialism is understandably...
Lightwater (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Next week President Obama is expected to announce his decision on the deployment of additional US troops to Afghanistan. Obama has sacrificed a good deal of his goodwill through too much strategic analysis instead of clear, efficient and quick decision-making. See Fraser Nelson on Britain’s AWOL ally. When the decision on troop numbers is announced you might like [...]
Man in a Shed (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Fraser Nelson makes some key and very important point about the future of the UK if the Keynesian's as represented by Gordon Brown, Vince Cable etc are allowed to determine our future. Read his post "Turning Japanese" here . It is some ways relates to my post earlier this weak about The age of Pussyfoot .
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... fiscal deficit drastically and to talk about reducing corporation tax, but this is not enough. As Fraser Nelson and Mark Bathgate highlight in this week's Spectator , we are not going to recover from this almighty mess until banks start lending again. This means that UK banks need to fess up and come clean. How large are their exposures and to whom? What form? What reserves do they...
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Our ally? Never. At last, a journalist who tells how it really is. Fraser Nelson, the editor of the Spectator, is trailing an article by Con Coghlin in today's Spectator in which Con discusses the way Washington, with regard to the Afghanistan war, is treating Britain. " The Afghan issue has made clear the astonishing disregard with which Mr Obama treats Britain. As he decides how...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... are the Iain Dale's Diary Readers Top 50 Political Journalists... 1. Matthew Parris (The Times) 2. Fraser Nelson (Spectator)/(News of The World) 3. Andrew Neil (BBC) 4. Paul Waugh (Evening Standard) 5. Quentin Letts (Mail) 6. Jeremy Paxman (BBC) 7. Adam Boulton (Sky News) 8. Benedict Brogan (Daily Telegraph) 9. Simon Walters (Daily Mail) 10. Jeff Randall (Daily Telegraph) 11. Boris...
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... the Tower Hamlets way Calderdale councillor defects to the Conservatives WATCH: The Spectator's Fraser Nelson reviews the political week David Curry defends his expenses claims... "The Conservative MP who quit as chairman of Parliament's anti-sleaze committee after allegations that he misused expenses has described the claims against him as fiction "akin to Harry Potter". David Curry,...
John Ward in Medway (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Image: the famous BBC Test Card, stolen from Mullard where I saw it in their Signals Room at the Hackbridge plant long before it first appeared at the Beeb…The delightful Jeremy Hunt is planning to slim down the BBC if (when') the Conservatives are elected into government, writes the inestimable Fraser Nelson.This will allow for a reduction in the licence fee, which is good news...
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
In this week's Spectator, Fraser Nelson argues that the relative quiet from eurosceptic Conservatives over David Cameron's new EU policy is: "not because they have accepted defeat ... but because they are deadly serious about victory" Of course, Daniel Hannan has resigned his advisory role and Douglas Carswell has announced he ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... football coverage too. Magazines The Spectator has still got the edge – just as good under Fraser Nelson, its new editor. I've been reading Private Eye from its very first edition in the 60s. I read the New Yorker for the features and film reviews.And the New York Review of Books – I've been a subscriber since 1989 – is one of the great intellectual triumphs of the...
The Bureau Of Sabotage (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... such as the above are not suffered gladly by me, and my mood is not helped by the swivel-eyed Fraser Nelson from the Spectator popping up on the Execution Channel™ trying to extract even more mileage out of the Janes case as I type, berating the hapless Gordon Brown and all but branding him autistic while praising Blair and the foul chequebook journalists of the Murdoch press...
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... of soldiers serving in Afghanistan are furious at £47m bonuses awarded to MoD civil servants Fraser Nelson: Cameron owes his political success to his Euroscepticism "Mr Cameron needs no reminder of the power of Euroscepticism within the party, as he owes his parliamentary career and his leadership of the party to it. During the leadership, his pledge to leave the EPP gained him crucial...
