Adam Boulton Diary – Swire, Amiel and a very embarrassing week for Westminster
Of the thousands of books published this autumn, two have already made big splashes: Sasha Swire’s diaries and Lady (Conrad) Black’s memoirs. I say books
Of the thousands of books published this autumn, two have already made big splashes: Sasha Swire’s diaries and Lady (Conrad) Black’s memoirs. I say books
Back in the Reagan Thatcher heyday, when it was still morning in America, a journalist friend of mine accompanied a party of Conservative politicians on
There is an unwritten rule in Westminster – however great the desire for change may be, some things remain the same. The very first session
The Commons and Lords are in recess, the Prime Minister is walking the dog at Chequers, so I’m on holiday. The Parliamentary calendar only impacts the diary of a political journalist tangentially but I’ve always downed tools in August.
According to what I put in my diary at the beginning of the year I would be in the United States at the moment, digesting
As a founder of the Quintessentially Group, Ben Elliot purports to arrange almost anything for the rich. But even this nephew of Camilla, Duchess of
“Grab a drink, raise a glass, pubs are reopening” came the rather unusual Tweet from Her Majesty’s usually dour Treasury, earlier this week. But these
According to John Maynard Keynes, Stanley Baldwin described the new intake of MPs after the Great War as “a lot of hard-faced men who look
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