Air Miles are bad, the Emma Maersk even worse

SO on the day the great report on "the end of the planet as we know it" is published, The Times encourages all its readers to collect Air Miles and jet around the world. Well I suppose the US influence on the Murdoch Corporation is well and truly exposed...

Bad tempered Gordon

GORDON Brown's intemperate display in the Commons on Thursday, when he threw papers across the Commons at his mild mannered Tory opponent George Osborne, is a sure sign of frustration and panic. Frustration, because he wants the top job which...

Inspector Knacker closes in but there'll be no bullet in the back of the head

MICHAEL Howard showed admirable courage yesterday when he released the information that he had talked to the Met in its inquiry over cash for honours. He didn't want it leaking out and, of course, he was keen to get into the public domain that he...

From DC with love to an anguished Blair media foul up

BACK in one piece from DC - Washington that is, not David Cameron - and a pleasure to be able to go to all major tourist attractions and museum exhibitions free of charge. From the Smithsonian to Arlington via the lift to the top of the Washington Memorial...

Thankfully, we're conferenced out

THE mayhem of filing copy and then rushing back to the hotel for the baggage and then organising a taxi to Bournemouth station meant I had no time to appraise properly Big Dave's speech to the Tieless Ones. It wasn't exactly earth shattering. I suspect...

A green agenda concerns big business

THE Conservatives have emerged as the greenest of the three main parties. Lobbyists this week have been appalled at the way Tory policy has been enticed so far down the road of green, leaving Labour and the Lib Dems in their wake. This is the party which...

The media are here in force

EVIDENCE that the Tories are now seen as electable cane be found in the record number of journalists - including the New York Times and Japanese Television - are here in Bournemouth in force. Let the good times roll! The Conservatives look like a party...

Sunny Dave and the Blue Lagoons

THE incurably optimistic Tieless Ones seem happy enough - even though they were outsmarted by their golden boy, who gave his keynote speech wearing a tie. Such mixed messages from the top sent the Tieless Ones reeling into the bars of the conference...

The Tieless Ones arrive in Bournemouth, but no snorting in the pews please

SOUTH West Trains are an utter disgrace. It took two hours for BK and myself to travel the relatively few miles from Waterloo to Basingstoke - engineering works meant we were diverted via Staines and Egham, crossing and recrossing the Thames and the M3...