Andrew Mitchell Articles

In 1892, George and Weedon Grossmith published a comic novel about an odd little fellow called Charles Pooter. Pooter was a clerk, struggling with the world around him, his family, and the pressures of fitting in to Victorian society. His comedic self-importance is...

There’s a stench of death around this coalition government. In many ways, the deadly bacillus was incubated from the start, from the moment the rose garden love-in took place in June 2010. The presence of the Liberal Democrats gave life to this Tory-led government,...

It must have been very depressing for Tories to read the papers this weekend. The fallout from the resignation of Andrew Mitchell as chief whip; the claim and counter claim about George Osborne’s train ticket dubbed ‘the Great Train Snobbery’; elder statesmen like...

Who won? Chalk this one up for Ed. Even the Telegraph blog says ‘Miliband is wiping the floor with him’ and ‘Rare to see Cameron bested so completely’. For the second time in 24 hours the progressive bested the millionaire in political argument. Obama showed passion...