Simon Hart
Simon Hart (Lord Hart of Tenby) was Chief Whip in Rishi Sunak’s government and had previously served as both Chief Executive and Chairman of the Countryside Alliance. His first book Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip was published earlier this year.
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
