The Real Blog

Well, I may not have quite recovered from the end of my summer holidays, but I am at least pleased to be blogging again, which I am starting...

You don't have to be what used to be called 'right wing' to be conservative. Tony Blair made a speech in 1999 about what he ca...

Years ago, I was having lunch with my then American publisher who asked me – as American publishers tend to do – what I wanted to do with ...

I was looking back at the introduction I wrote to The Human Element , eventually published in 2011 but inspired by the dysfunctional approac...

The whisper in the Sunday papers was that George Osborne will start the process of selling off the state owned RBS some time today, with a...

It was the morning of 9 May 1941 south of Iceland. The commander of U110, Fritz-Julius Lemp had fired four torpedoes into the convoy in qu...

I am now 57 and feel too old to act like an Incredible Hulk, politically of course.  When that old despair and rage returns about the way my...