Andrew Gimson
@AndrewGimson
Author of Gimson's Presidents; Gimson's PMs; Gimson's Kings & Queens; Boris - The Making of the Prime Minister. Contributing editor to ConHome.
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16-03-2012 09:18:30
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We are the masters now, Wes Streeting MP declares in the debate on the smoking ban, sketched by Andrew Gimson conservativehome.com/2024/04/16/and…
'Tory Democracy, about which I wrote at slightly greater length in my recent book about Johnson, has triumphed for much of our history since Benjamin Disraeli, and there is no reason why it should not triumph again.' Andrew Gimson
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The threat from Farage with his 'perfect ability to voice the discontents of the man in the pub, the exasperation felt by millions of quiet, law-abiding citizens who do not want to be modernised against their will' - my piece for today's ConservativeHome conservativehome.com/2024/04/10/the…
The possibility now exists that Nigel Farage will finish off Rishi Sunak conservativehome.com/2024/04/10/the…
+ Andrew Gimson's television sketch: The Sun roughs up Rishi Sunak conservativehome.com/2024/04/04/and…
Good view of Baldwin's book - but I particularly like this observation from Andrew Gimson
This is true I think: ultimately we choose our tribes emotionally and the rest of it is, often, posthoc rationalisation. It's about values, as much as anything
Sir Edwin Lutyens, born #OnThisDay 155 years ago. Here is Munstead Wood, perhaps the archetypal Surrey Arts and Crafts house. Built 1897, photographed last June.