Iain Dale presents Drive on LBC, 4-7pm weekdays, and is Managing Director of Biteback Publishing.
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Long Read: The Cost of Climate Change - The Rush to Net Zero by 2050, the Renewables Dilemma & Adapting to the New Normal The choices facing politicians are stark... If we can't, on our own as a country, stop global warming, then politicians have to realise we have to adapt to it. The Cost of Climate Change - The Rush to Net Zero by 2050 & the Renewables Dilemma By Iain Dale and Jerry Owston…
Today I will be attending Ann Widdecombe's funeral in south Devon. My last event in Edinburgh finished at 9.30pm last night so the only way to get to Totnes in time was to be driven, given I don't get my driving licence back until the weekend. My best friend Dan Bryce drove up from Kent yesterday and has driven me through the night so I can be there. He's an absolute hero. And then there's the…
Dear Ann I have no idea where to start. What I do know is I will miss the email you send me every Sunday evening protesting about something I have written in this newsletter. You hate it when I swear. You accuse me of being woke. You complain about the typos. I aways read it with a smile. But as of this week, I have one less subscriber. I cannot imagine the horror you went through at the man who…
Tomorrow, the King of the North will grace southerners with his exulted present and travel to London to claim the throne that he considers his by right. It's as if he has hypnotised his party to lay down their collective shawls in order that the chosen one can walk on water. It's as if the Messiah is coming to rescue those who have proven incapable of running the country. It's almost as if he,…
Last night at around midnight I was flicking through Youtube and came across the latest Newsagents podcast, in which Lewis Goodall interviews Wes Streeting for 90 minutes. Wow. What an interview. Wes Streeting was in 100 per cent honest mode and gave Lewis so many newslines that I lost count. It was a perfect example of how the long form interview can be an utter revelation. Apart from giving some…
On Thursday, my new book, THE GENERALS was published. It seeks to give the reader an introduction to 69 of the most significan Generals in world history, through the eyes of 69 different authors. As a taster, I thought I would reproduce my introduction to the book here. If you like what you see, do feel free to order a signed copy from Politicos.co.uk HERE , or an unsigned one from Amazon HERE .…
On Friday, the funeral of former Conservative MP Derek Conway was held in his beloved Northumberland. In the end, I was unable to go, which was such a shame as Derek was one of those people who was a one-off, one of life's most positive and generous people. He was great company, and although I wouldn't pretend to be one of his closest personal friends, I remember some quite deep and meaningful…
Note: I appreciate this won't be of interesy to everyone, but it's of great interest to me, which is why I've spent the bulk of Bank Holiday Monday writing it. It's happened. There's no point in dwelling on what might have been. We got the third worst points total of any team in the Premier League. Of course we can all look at games where we could have got more, either due to VAR going against us…
I could spend the next 500 words bemoaning the fact that West Ham have been relegated, and wallowing in a cesspit of self-pity. The fact is that we deserved to be. We got the third lowest number of points, and statistics don't lie. There are all sorts of reasons for that, but I'll leave all that to be discussed on my WestHamTillIDie blog. As you know, I like to keep tabs on what is going on in our…
What a week of political intrigue! One of the things that has really irritated me is the number of my fellow political commentators, who refuse to give an opinion on what is likely to happen. Ok, sometimes we get things wrong, but at least we've nailed our colours to a particular mast. Even politicians are falling into this trap now. I was on Newsnight on Monday with a Stermer-critical Labour MP…
