Bureaucracies put themselves first: my review for ConservativeHome of Michelle Clement's new book conservativehome.com/2025/06/20/the…

Lovely sceptical review by Andrew Gimson of Michelle Clement's Art of Delivery, based on Sir Michael Barber's diaries conservativehome.com/2025/06/20/the…

I've been accused of disguising something myself - my Christian faith. And it's true that while I've never hidden it (see my maiden speech) I didn't parade my faith as the basis of my objection to assisted suicide. You don't need religious arguments to show this Bill is bad,

Southwell Minster on Corpus Christi

The glumness of Labour: Andrew Gimson sketches PMQs conservativehome.com/2025/06/25/and…

Interesting point. Starmer obviously right to go to NATO but why hold a controversial vote when he's not around to reassure/cajole his MPs? No 10 was strangely oblivious to how unpopular disability benefit cuts would be

Why can't the British...be more like the Dutch?

Twilight at St Giles

Caught the 10.19 this morning from Crewkerne to London Waterloo. We were soon joined by dozens of weary passengers, average age 21, returning from Glastonbury. Standing room only. Not a cross word. Impossible to render this prevailing civility newsworthy.

The view from the Radcliffe Camera

Grief-stricken Chancellor: Andrew Gimson sketches #PMQs conservativehome.com/2025/07/02/and…

Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

A vindictive Luddite: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on Trump telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

Commissar Starmer is not amused: Andrew Gimson sketches #PMQs conservativehome.com/2025/07/09/and…

'This emblem here is set to view For Robert Anguis sake Hast with wisdom must insew A happy ende to make' Little Walsingham, Norfolk. Surmounted by a caduceus, died 1590, the XXXIInd year of the reign of Elizabetha Regina. More: norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsingh… #MemorialsMonday

Encore une innovation parisienne sociale-écologique que le tiers-monde va nous envier : L'arbre-disjoncteur. (C'est carrément dans le 6e, carrefour de l'Odéon, face au buste d'Aznavour et aux restaurants rupins.)

"No mention is made in Museums Association's mission, vision or values of promoting careful and responsible custodianship of the collections in museums, in spite of this being their core aim [...] Any museum or heritage organisation that seeks to stay true to its proper purposes would

Hilary Benn made a remarkable admission yesterday in the debate on veterans and the NI Legacy Act. Hitherto he has always refused to reveal why the government dropped the appeal to the Supreme Court on the two key sections 46 and 47 found to be unlawful by the NI High Court 1/