Alex Singleton

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 […]

On Saturday I had a piece on Telegraph.co.uk on ‘David Cameron and the forgotten man‘. I picked up on William Graham Sumner’s idea of ‘the forgotten man’, the middle-class person who falls between the affluent on the one hand and the welfare recipient on the other.
Incidentally, for a number of years I had Google as […]

David Willetts, a Conservative politician, is setting up a study group to look at the problems facing children in the UK. One of the subjects his group is looking at is to “look at how children can be better protected from commercialisation”.
Part of the impetus for this study is a deeply flawed UNICEF report that […]

This appears in Australia’s The Age newspaper:
Australia is the least generous contributor to overseas aid among the G20 countries, costing thousands of lives every year, a report shows.
The report, released as part of the Make Poverty History campaign, involving 60 Australian aid agencies, community groups and church groups, shows that all countries part of the […]

Conservative leader David Cameron used a speech at the Foreign Press Association yesterday to criticise Peter Mandelson’s record as trade commissioner:
I don’t believe that Peter Mandelson (the EU trade commissioner) is currently taking the right approach towards globalisation. There’s a stop-the-world-I-want-to-get-off mentality in too much of what he does. The role for the British government […]