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RDN on Guardian’s Comment Is Free (Cif)

Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Rightist manifestos on 9 March 2010. No comments.

I was bucked to have a piece run on the Guardian‘s Comment Is Free (Cif). I was bemoaning Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics. Here are a few reflections on the comments it received.  More »

Which party wants a modern state?

Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 2 March 2010. No comments.

I want to scrap the BBC, expand the military, phase out the NHS and the rest of the Welfare State, empower Whitehall. What is this unholy muddle? And how does affect politics? Do the Tories get it?  More »

The Tories lack “bottom”

Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 27 February 2010. No comments.

The Tory leadership under David Cameron clearly lack something. Their followers don’t know what the party’s for. The Cameroons are a bit controlling. Blairite, then. But there’s something more… More »

Is Red Toryism the new true-blue?

Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns / Rightist manifestos on 27 November 2009. No comments.

It is just possible that Philip Blond and the Red Toryism of his ResPublica are the very fig-leaf a true-blue Conservative Party needs. It may be that David Cameron, beyond his bland rebranding of the Tories, is thinking along these lines…. More »

3 riffs 4 a bolder Toryism

Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 4 October 2009. No comments.

I shall be in Manchester promoting my new book, Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics: Or why old Tory stories matter. Here are three brief messages I am pitching to the media. More »

Bland cannot be the new Tory brand

Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 2 October 2009. No comments.

An Op Ed style comment piece to coincide with the publication of  Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics, Or why old Tory stories matter to us all. * More »

My new book: “Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics”

Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 23 September 2009. No comments.

Buy Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics: Why old Tory stories matter to us all now at Amazon.

My new book argues that  the Cameroons are being a bit timid in ignoring the great Tory back stories which have done the party – and the country - proud in the past. More »

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