Two links in one day! My, I am special!
It’s nice to finally be recognised for my obvious brilliance.
Please stay around and read some more! And then come back again tomorrow, the day after, and the day after that…

Thanks to everyone (both?) who voted for me in the Total Politics blogs listing.
Overall, this blog is the 79th best Conservative blog! Every year since Iain Dale started the listing, I have been in the top 100 – which is nice.

Iain Dale has recieved a text message from a broadcaster producer on a discussion topic, saying:

I’m contacting you regarding a discussion tomorrow. The angle is who are worse – MPs or bankers?

The answer is pretty simple: MPs. Or, rather, those MPs who have actually claimed for appropriate items or other expenses (which is inevitably a minority) are worse than the bakers who led us into a recession under the guidance of the former Chancellor of the Exhcequer and current Prime Minister.
Why? Because MPs are our elected representatives. They have a …

Iain Dale is chairing a discussion on “how we view history in this country, how it is taught in schools and how to engage people with the subject” so I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts on the subject.
History is very important. It defines who we are and how we view the world. We should celebrate our history, from as far back as we can determine with any accuracy, right up to modern times.
British history is our history. The history of our nation. What made us who we …

Iain Dale’s new political magazine, Total Politics, is to publish its first copy on June 23rd. Some of the content has already been leaked, with the Telegraph’s Three Line Whip revealing that in an interview for the magazine, Gordon Brown revealedthat:
[H]e is not a good dancer, he would rather watch the new Indiana Jones film than the upcoming Bond film Quantum of Solace, that his favourite programme from his youth was That Was The Week That Was, and the last film that made him cry was Hotel Rwanda.
Which, to be …

Iain Dale is doing an article on politicians and their cars, and I came across this online quiz – so I’m asking bloggers: which car are you?
The results say that:
 

I’m a Ford Mustang!

You’re an American classic — fast, strong, and bold. You’re not snobby or pretentious, but you have what it takes to give anyone a run for their money.
“Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

via Sally in Norfolk

Iain said “[n]ow watch them appear on blog after blog after blog…” And who am I to disappoint? So here I am, Warholized:

Do they, really?
The penultimate sentence in a post on the new Times blog, Red Box, on Nick Clegg’s first PMQs as Lib Dem leader, reads:
Lib Dem strategists said afterwards his choice showed that Clegg not Cameron had focused on an issue which they really mattered to voters
Iain Dale picks up on this and asks:
Er, Cameron asked about ID Cards. Seeing as ID cards has been one of Clegg’s main campaigns, shurely shome mishtake… Perhaps our LibDem friends might like to clarify matters.
Well, I’m not a Lib Dem, but I think …

Via Iain Dale and ConservativeHome, a Sunday Telegraph poll puts the Conservatives on their highest ICM poll since 1992:
Conservative: 43%Labour: 36%LibDems: 14%
From lows to highs, eh! Just a few weeks ago, we were trailing by eleven points, and now we’re leading by seven! Hopefully this high will last longer than Brown’s momentary lead and be able to be built on to ensure that we win the next general election – whenever Gordon Brown decides to call it.
Some thought that Brown’s eleven point lead meant an end to Cameron and the …

The top 500 political blogs in the UK.
54 in the Top 100 Centre-Right blogs and 135 in the top 500 Political Blogs. I’m happy with that!