June 2010 Archives

Diane Abbott and racism

By Robin Simcox on June 28, 2010 2:28 PM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is Douglas Murray's latest blog for the Daily Telegraph.

If you haven't seen it yet, the must-watch meltdown of the week was Diane Abbott's performance on This Week. Gosh I would have loved to have been in the green room afterwards. For years Abbott, Michael Portillo and host Andrew Neil have chummed away together in the studio once a week. Now with Abbott running for Labour leader, Andrew Neil has turned the full, brilliant, glare of his scrutiny on his fellow star. 
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Taliban leaders celebrate McChrystal's resignation

By Robin Simcox on June 28, 2010 2:26 PM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is Douglas Murray's latest blog for the Daily Telegraph.

I've been reading the Rolling Stone magazine piece that brought down General McChrystal and feel very unnerved by it. I know that the consensus dictated that, after remarks made largely by members of McChrystal's team, the General simply had to go. But a number of things occur to me.


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Why is this Lib Dem government not cutting our payments to Brussels?

By Robin Simcox on June 28, 2010 2:23 PM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is Douglas Murray's latest blog for the Daily Telegraph.

I've just returned from a very brief speaking trip to Brussels and experienced the familiar fury I feel whenever I have misfortune of being there. The sanitised hotels seem to be the only businesses in town other than the Parliament.


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Does the government have a control orders policy?

By Robin Simcox on June 24, 2010 5:20 PM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is my latest blog for Conservative Home.

Lord Carlile delivered a sensible speech last night which again made the case for control orders, as well as an enhanced ability to deport foreign terror suspects. The Conservatives and Lib Dems have already been forced to issue control orders against al-Qaeda operatives Abid Nasser and Faraz Khan, despite being highly critical of them when out of government.
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Times Square bomber pleads guilty

By Robin Simcox on June 22, 2010 3:35 PM | No TrackBacks
This is a guest post by CSC Research intern, Sara Rubin.

Faisal Shahzad, accused of attempting to bomb Times Square, has pleaded guilty to all ten counts for which he was charged at an arraignment hearing in New York.
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The 'Conservative Muslim Forum' has some explaining to do

By Robin Simcox on June 21, 2010 11:24 AM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is CSC Director Douglas Murray's latest blog for the Daily Telegraph.

This week Theresa May announced that she was keeping extremist cleric Zakir Naik out of Britain. But something interesting has come to my attention. One of the charities which was planning to host Naik at a "peace convention" is Al-Khair. They were hosting it with Peace TV and IQRA TV.
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By keeping out extremist cleric, Theresa May demonstrates she's no Jacqui Smith

By Robin Simcox on June 21, 2010 11:21 AM | No TrackBacks
CSC Director Douglas Murray blogs for the Daily Telegraph, reproduced below.

Probably the most distressing of the many distressing sights in the last government was Jacqui Smith going under water on her first day as Home Secretary and never managing to break back above the surface. The flailing moment when we all knew she was dying in the job was of course the moment it became apparent she was making up policy on the hoof, creating weird lists of people who could or could not come into the UK.
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Humanitarian aid or political agenda?

By Robin Simcox on June 2, 2010 10:32 AM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
This is a guest post by CSC Research intern, Alistair de kare Silver. He writes in a personal capacity.

The whole controversy and furore surrounding Israel's convoy raid is an utter farce and highlights some disturbing ironies and double standards.
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