Alex Singleton

On Sunday I was the guest speaker at the Cambridge University Conservative Association’s gin and tonic party. I spoke defending the privatisation of rail by the last Conservative administration, pointing out that, on all major measures, the railways have improved, whether you look at passenger numbers, punctuality, investment levels or safety. I pointed to the […]

On The Guardian’s Comment is Free site, I put some arguments in favour of an illegal immigration amnesty:
Boris Johnson’s support for an amnesty on illegal immigrants may not appeal to the party leadership, but he is right to propose the measure. The status quo has driven too many immigrants underground, into the black economy where […]

Over on the Telegraph’s Brassneck blog, I pick up on Shane Greer’s suggestion that David Cameron’s effect is to shift the centre ground of politics to the right: he’s realigning politics, not just his party. I also say that, far from leading Cameroonie thought with their policy review, John Gummer and Zac Goldsmith fundamentally failed […]

On Telegraph.co.uk today, I’ve written a piece about David Cameron’s speech yesterday on government IT procurement. My take is that Cameron’s political philosophy is in full view here:
What is David Cameron’s political philosophy? Some people wonder if he has one, pointing to his work as a PR man. Yet in among his matching of Labour […]

Here’s my piece from Telegraph.co.uk on a new beer that attacks the Prime Minister:
I’m yet to see the poster barring Alistair Darling from entering pubs, but on a visit today to a Wetherspoon pub I had a pint of Welton’s Casablanca beer. It is a real ale brewed in Horsham and its marketing at the […]

Eamonn Butler has written a new book called The Best Book on the Market. It is aimed at the general public, in much the same way as Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist. Yesterday I did a podcast interview with Eamonn about his book: you can listen to it here.