The semi-house trained polemicist

richard

His recipe for Faisan a la Normande (as even he calls it) is also exemplary. A real national treasure. Never seen or heard on the BBC of course.

Dougle

"His recipe for Faisan a la Normande (as even he calls it) is also exemplary. A real national treasure. Never seen or heard on the BBC of course."

Except for when he was on "Any Questions" last week...
Ha ha

cityboozer

richard - he was on Any Questions last week

arnoldo

"..a particularly foul parasite will infect our dogs, foxes and small wild mammals, and then humans with a potentially fatal liver parasite."

Yes, any regular visitor to Europe will have noticed the dead foxes dogs and small mammals that litter the streets and countryside on the continent.

It won't all be bad news though. Here we have a solution to the fox problem that will make fox-hunting totally unnecessary. There will be a big reduction in dangerous dogs, and the rat population will be decimated. Hopefully polecats will be similarly smitten.

As for humans, let's hope that the parasite affects the British less than the Europeans and those who support cricket teams other than England.

Sam Armstrong

"richard - he was on Any Questions last week"

Oh great. ONE radio show. Maybe he'll take over the establishment with his message...

Lord Tebbit is a real man, someone you can look up to, unlike 'socialist' men, who prostitute their crocodile tears to the TV cameras so they can cling onto power for a few more wretched years.

I hope that the arrival of Lord Tebbit's blog is the start of a new era of media friendly dry conservatives getting louder and louder. John Redwood is becoming very popular, I'm also seeing Nigel Lawson popping up more and more as a talking head on BBC documentaries.

And the sometimes derided Dan Hannan is extremely telegenic and convincing.

Pamela Monks

As you say, Melanie, Lord Tebbit's Telegraph is always worth reading. It also attracts more comments than any other DT blog, perhaps partly because he does respond to any good points raised in his next article, which shows that he does read the comments.

The man is an absolute treasure. If only we had his kind in today's Conservative Party.

Occasional Ostrich

Melanie, that headline is just . . .
BRILLIANT!

Augustus

"When will our political leaders come to the rescue of the British people?"

The short answer is when national elected politicians stop trying to extend their own personal powers by creating larger political entities than the limits of the society within which, and only for which, they have been elected to represent. When a minister of a state wishes to get something done, he first needs his leader's approval, then, if money is involved, he needs the support of a finance minister, and then he requires a majority to agree with him, and by implication a majority of the populace. But when in a supra-
national organization like the EU, where laws are made by a council of 27 ministers, then you are talking about an oligarchy, a committee of lawmakers, and a powerful one at that effecting nigh on half a billion people, and one which can't be voted out whatever it decides to do. The EU has become, and is proving itself to have become, a coup d'etat of every nation state under it's
direction and control. What it is doing is camouflaging political power under the aegis of free trade, open borders, universal currency, etc. under a clandestine network of complicated organizations with innocent sounding names. But the worst aspect of all regarding the EU, is not that it just wants to dictate laws and impose its will on individual European states, it wants eventually to do away with them altogether. It is nothing less than an organized form of treason.

Miranda Rose Smith

WHY are Our Masters banning the use of pet passports and compulsory inoculation of dogs from the EU?

JohnW

Arnoldo: "Yes, any regular visitor to Europe will have noticed the dead foxes dogs and small mammals that litter the streets and countryside on the continent."

I invite you to visit Bucharest. The number of wild and/or rabid dogs on the loose there is exceeded only by the Labour party conference.

Archie

I have to agree Miss Phillips. I was no fan of His Lordship when in power, but his blogs of late have been remarkable for their outspokenness, which I know to my cost is a symptom of advancing years! The man has even written contritely of some decisions made when he was in Cabinet and should have spoken against!