Forget the 'beer and bingo' Twitterstorm. Grant Shapps is the most effective...
Being chairman of the Conservative Party is one of the toughest jobs in politics. You have enormous responsibility, but little power. Presiding over a sprawling party structure designed in...
View ArticleWhy Twitter is the worst possible forum for expressing grief
Is there a more meaningless phrase in the English language than: "My thoughts are with"? Inevitably you hear it when someone, or lots of people, have died. Public figures, as it might be the Prime...
View ArticleBoko Haram and Twitter: does the hashtag campaign understand what it's asking...
Three weeks ago, over 230 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram, a jihadist group that blends Salafi extremism with psychosis. On Sunday evening, the group kidnapped a further eight girls....
View ArticleStop whining about 'PC'. Michael Fabricant tweeting about punching women in...
Michael Fabricant, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Lichfield, has just tweeted about his desire to punch Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in the throat. At least, that was my...
View ArticleThe MI6 plot to undermine the independence campaign: being quite rude to JK...
A black-clad figure rappels unnoticed down the outside of an old stone building in the heart of Edinburgh. It's late in the short Scottish summer night, and the sky is almost dark; the castle sits...
View ArticleTwitter users in the UK are not as Left-wing as you think. Here's the proof
If 2015 is going be the "selfie" general election – where everything our politicians do, say, eat or tweet is going to be dissected on social media – it's probably worth taking a closer look at that...
View ArticleFrom climate change to Boko Haram, we're all mouth and no trousers
My colleague Matthew Holehouse has uncovered a fascinating set of findings in a report published by the Department for Energy and Climate Change. I’ll let Matthew explain: …The report also found that...
View ArticleDawkins is right – some crimes are worse than others
To see what a morally relativistic mush modern society has descended into, look no further than the tsunami of bile currently consuming Richard Dawkins. Simply for saying that some crimes are worse...
View ArticleWhite House gag shows that Twitter is no place for jokes
It was two hundred years ago yesterday that British soldiers snuck into the White House. They found the place deserted, with a lavish banquet laid out. Once they had finished scoffing down the food,...
View ArticleTerror threat Tube hoax: social media is the cause of these rumours – and the...
Late last night, I was sent this chilling warning by text: In case you have anyone in London. Don't travel on the tubes tomorrow. Every single police officer in the met has been called into work from...
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