Iain Dale's Diary

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Political DVD and CD Online Shop

I've just created an online shop , courtesy of Amazon, for political DVDs and CDs, which you can visit HERE . There are about 80 DVDs a...

Blair Must Stand Up to the Iranian Terrorists

Our government is being remarkably controlled in its reaction to the seizure of fifteen members of Her Majesty's Armed Forces by Iran. I...

Chris Whiteside Reselected for Copeland

I'm delighted to report that my old university friend Chris Whiteside has been selected for the redrawn seat of Copeland. He fought the ...

John Rentoul Needs to Get Out More

John Rentoul is a talented man. His biography of Tony Blair was masterful, although as Private Eye might say, it did reak a bit of arslikha...

How to Deal With an Obnoxious Interviewer

Dan Hannan did a John Nott the other day and walked out of a TV interview. Read his account HERE . I must say I have often wondered why poli...

How Miliband Can Make His Intentions clear

More and more people believe David Miliband is becoming more and more interested in the idea of challenging Gordon Brown for the Labour lead...

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Cherie Plumbs the Depths

The Mail on Sunday reveals tomorrow that Cherie Blair trousered £30,000 from the bin Laden family for a five hour trip to Saudi Arabia to ma...

An Evening with the Parentals

It's my Mum's 76th birthday on Tuesday so I am now off to the wilds of North Essex to take her and my Dad out to dinner at The Three...

Factoid of the Day No 1

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we ha...

Things Can Only Get... Or Lest We Forget

I found this on Youtube this morning. Quite a powerful denunciation of New Labour, even if you don't agree with all of its content.

Keeping Gio in Dog Biscuits

I have added a Google Search box a few inches down the left hand column so you can now search the site properly for the first time. I've...

Golden Arrow Public Affairs: Instalment 6

Before I go on, let's recap the story so far... Last Sunday the Sunday Times exposed the relationship between lobbying firm Golden Arro...

Mandy's a Quitter Not a Fighter

The news that the Prince of Darkness is to leave his £200,000 a year post as Britain's EU Commissioner in 2009 and not seek reappointmen...

Friday, March 23, 2007

18 Doughty Street Highlights This Week

I thought I'd give you a quick rundown of some programmes we showed on 18 Doughty Street this week, which you might want to dip into if ...

50 Reasons to Love & Hate the EU

As Tony Blair goes to Berlin this weekend to sign away even more of our sovereignty to celebrate 50 years of the EU, Trixy comes up with 50 ...

Ming Should Put His Own House in Order Before Attacking the Police

Ming Campbell has said that the Police are alienating ethnic minority communities by over-using stop and search powers. Does he not think th...

8 Facts About Zimbabwe

37 Life expectancy at birth in Zimbabwe 60 Average life expectancy in 1990 81 The infant mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births), comp...

Quotes of the Day

"There is one thing the Europeans do rather better than we do. The lack of drinking at lunchtimes in this country is appalling" - ...

Why John Bird Isn't Fit to Run London

Adam Macqueen used to work for me at Politico's. He's now a journalist on Private Eye but spent three years working for John Bird a...

One of Many?

Hello Mr Dale, I read and enjoy your web page every day. Just a comment on the Budget. I am a retired BT field engineer (62) on a BT pension...

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