Janet Daley

Profile: Full name: Janet Daley Area of interest: Society, morality and arising political issues: philosophical consistency in government and opposition policy Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph Email: janet.daley@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley Blog: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/janet_daley Representation: http://www.fletcherassociates.net/Fletcher_Associates/janet_Daley_Biog.html Networks:

Biography: About: Education: Career: Janet Daley spent twenty years in academic life, teaching philosophy at the Open University, the external department of London University, and the Royal College of Art. She wrote art and literary criticism from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. She left teaching to become a full-time journalist in 1987 writing for the The Times, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, etc., and joined The Independent as a columnist in 1989. She went to The Times as columnist and leader writer in 1990 where she stayed until 1996, when she joined The Daily Telegraph as a columnist and leader writer (until February 2005). She then wrote for The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Mail on Sunday, before returning to The Daily Telegraph. A recent publication for the Centre for Policy Studies by her is Seeking Common Ground - source: Centre for Policy Studies Current position/role: Commentator also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies since 2005 Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: "Living with European socialism turned this Berkeley girl into a conservative": Up from Liberalism from City Journal, New York 2003 ConservativeHome: interviews, 2006 ConservativeHome platform: Stop talking about changing the Conservative Party and focus on changing the country, August 2007 Broadcast media: For ten years a panellist on Radio 4's Moral Maze, until 2001. Other appearances include Radio 4's Any Questions?, BBC TV's Question Time, Breakfast with Frost. Also a regular on BBC News 24s Head to Head and Dateline London http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2228683 Video: Controversy/Criticism: Dave Hill: Janet Daley's criminal fallacy Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: All Good Men (Vintage/Ebury, 1987) OCLC 14129042 / ISBN 070113156X Honourable Friends (Ulverscroft, 1990) OCLC 22714065 / ISBN 0708922953 Latest work: What does modernisation mean? OCLC 137207994 Centre for Policy Studies, 2006 Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Daily Telegraph: Column name: Remit/Info: Society, morality and arising political issues: philosophical consistency in government and opposition policy Section: Features / Comment Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley Commissioning editor: Day published: Monday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length: 1100 words

Articles: 2013 Hate mustn’t be made a thought crime – only acting on it is - Words must be regarded differently in law from acts. It distinguishes a free nation from a totalitarian one - 2nd June More people renting houses rather than owning them would be better for our economy - In April, mortgage lending fell for the fourth month in a row. It seems that the British are so determined to get on top of their personal debt that repayments have exceeded borrowing for eight of the past 12 months - 29th May Even for liberals, Obama has crossed a line - Those who have spoken out against the President’s expansion of government power have been investigated and intimidated - 26th May David Cameron is so relaxed I want to slap him - To truly impress the country, the oil-price fixers will have to be prosecuted and the cartels smashed - 19th May No party can truly speak for everyone - All leaders argue that their beliefs will inevitably benefit every group. This is, of course, not true - 12th May Has the Conservative Party learnt any lessons from Ukip's success? - There has been a groundswell in the big world – the neglected majority of conservative voters has moved on - 5th May Good policies can transcend Right and Left - The welfare reform programme is a true instance of compassionate conservatism - 28th April Leaders need convictions – and courage – like Lady Thatcher - The nostalgia of the past week following the death of the former Conservative prime minister has shown that voters want a sense of moral mission - 21st April Britain was set free by this class warrior - The radical idea of Thatcherism’s social philosophy was that everyone had a right to progress - 14th April The death of Lady Thatcher: is that the end of conviction politics? - We knew it was coming but somehow – as people always say – when it happens, it is still a shock - 9th April Can Auntie survive in the iPlayer age? - The new director general may be sucked back into the BBC’s institutional egomania - 7th April George Osborne is the problem, not the solution - The Chancellor refuses to deal with arguments, interpreting every disagreement as an act of treachery or a personal attack - 30th March Aspirations are now so much harder to fulfil - Every generation up to now has been able to expect to have a better life than the previous one - but that has all changed - 24th March Now it’s a battle for the soul of David Cameron - Forget the issue of who might make a plausible new leader for the Conservative Party - the question is, can the Prime Minister reinvent himself now that the modernisation project is dead - 17th March Taxing the 'rich’ may be good politics but it's bad economics - To pull the country out of recession, Chancellor George Osborne needs to cut taxes on the better-off - 10th March What voters really want is a proper choice - Nigel Farage hit the nail on the head with his quip about three social democratic parties - 3rd March The public sector mustn't be a sacred cow - The NHS and the BBC are protected by an aura of sanctity - 24th February Osborne and Obama have got it wrong - The passing down of inherited capital is one of the most important and fruitful features of modern capitalism - 17th February Cameron: From triumph to disaster in just two weeks - The PM did the impossible on Europe, then chucked the gay marriage grenade - 10th February *The time has come to put families first - How have parents of this generation been persuaded that the sovietising of day care is the best solution for them? - 3rd February Democracy is on the brink of a sea change - Obama looked to the discredited past; Cameron to an impossible future - 27th January For President Obama, al-Qaeda is our problem now - The US no longer sees itself as the world’s bodyguard - 20th January A moment of truth on the welfare state - A system intended to promote social solidarity has had the opposite effect - 13th January The Tories can win if they put real people first - Voters worry about the cost of living and immigration controls, not gay marriage - 6th January

Articles: 2012 The truth is that politicians are telling lies - Government is simply unaffordable - 23rd December What a week that was for idiotic politics - The commitment to gay marriage is seen, preposterously, by George Osborne and David Cameron as some sort of analogue with the Blairite renunciation of Labour’s Clause Four - 16th December Fairness is at the heart of George Osborne’s radical strategy - Voters may hate 'scroungers’, but they would recoil from cuts to benefits for those in work - 9th December Ukip may yet gatecrash the private party - Ukip's advance is a poke in the eye for those who people the corridors of power - 2nd December Unlike Europe, the Tories can bind together - The EU is the model of what happens when a governing class remains in denial - 25th November We’re heading for economic dictatorship - The whole of the West is falling into the economic black hole of permanent no-growth - 18th November America has become an Old World country - The Gordon Brown vision of government as omnipotent benefactor is now the model in the US -11th November Mitt Romney can still win – and he deserves to - While Obama has suffered in televised debates, Mr Romney has become himself - 3rd November At last, Cameron gets the Right message across - The Prime Minister and Mitt Romney now make similar claims: we want to extend wealth, not protect the wealthy - 14th October Mitt Romney teaches the Tories a lesson in conviction - Mr Osborne needs some good headlines this week – and that means tax cuts - 7th October 'Likeability’ is the bane of modern politics - Clowning around on a chat show, or even being a devoted Dad, may count for less than having a serious grasp of economic reality - 30th September Mitt Romney’s message is good – it just needs restating - The benefit-addicts gaffe by Republican candidate Mitt Romney hid a valid point about people who pay taxes - 23rd September Obama’s foreign policy of reconciliation lies in tatters - The President appears to be rethinking his stance on American interference abroad. Will he let the electorate know before the election? - 16th September Are you radical or reactionary, David Cameron? - With fresh thinking, the Conservative Party can finally become genuinely modern: radical, progressive and liberated from the Left and Right vocabulary of the past - 9th September A celebration of everything the Left hates - The prohibition on competition in primary schools has been a horrendous handicap to the academic performance of boys - 12th August Cameron needs to shake up his inner circle - The Prime Minister must make it clear that he can deal with constructive criticism - 5th August People would be happy to see a smaller state - We’ve had a lot of talk of austerity and little of the actual thing - 29th July You can’t blame capitalism for this 'shambles’ - Real free markets require genuine competition if they are to offer constantly improving quality of service - 22nd July A political truce finally exposed as a conspiracy - Open discussion of opposing views is essential to a free society - 15th July The law cannot curb greedy bankers, but morals might - Perhaps capitalist enterprise cannot be properly conducted without religious principle - 8th July The centre has moved Right, not Prime Minister David Cameron - The Conservatives are not 'lurching' to the Right but struggling to keep up with the people’s change of mood - 30 June The Beast is beyond your control, George - The global market has become too big, too automated, too rapacious and ungovernable - 17th June Universal benefits have had their day - We are all paying in, and then we are all receiving dollops of money. This is crazy - 10th June Spain is in 'total emergency’, the EU in total denial - After a Spanish exit from the euro, there would be nothing left to exit from - 3rd June David Cameron and George Osborne will not even argue their case - According to their Conservative critics, David Cameron and George Osborne are isolated and impervious to advice - 27th May Europe finally awakes from its utopian dream - A defiant Angela Merkel is doing no more than defending the interests of her own electorate - 20th May We still don’t really know David Cameron - The Prime Minister is not the bluff county dimwit his ill-advised friends portray - 13th May Left and Right politicians are singing from same hymn sheet - But the market economy can’t afford enormous social security programmes - 6th May The new Tory 'club’ belongs to a bygone age - The Cameron-Osborne-Letwin-Maude team ignore the era of meritocracy that saw a truly modernised party emerge - 29th April The great transatlantic tax divide - Any American politician who proposed our punitive tax system would be vaporised - 15th April David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband - focus groups won’t win you our love - Politicians have never been so unpopular, while never has so much effort been expended in finding out what voters think and want - 8th April The Wets are reclaiming the Tory party - There’s a sense among voters that no one can believe what the leaders say - 1st April So it’s good to create wealth, but bad to be rich - The Budget has victimised those who represent the essence of Conservative values - 25th March Backing business, but punishing the rich. Eh? - Osborne wants to support business and punish the rich. How does he think that will work - 21st March Osborne has nothing to learn from America - When the US economy springs to life, it will be because of the resilience of the people - 18th March Our leaders are trapped in contradictions - The Tory leadership is offering a confused message - 11th March It is not too late for a Tory tax revolution - The 'unfunded’ tax cut of today is the economic stimulus of tomorrow - 4th March The Government should stand up to rent-a-mob - The BBC has paid reverent, and wildly disproportionate, attention to even the most ill-informed objections - 26th February A good week for the smiting of the ungodly - The anger against the anti-religion brigade was startling - 19th February Our leaders lost their hearts to focus-groupies - Politicians are in thrall to the marketing experts - 12th February The lessons of the fall of communism have still not been learnt - The events of 1989 are crucial to any understanding of the present world - 5th February Barack Obama is trying to make the US a more socialist state - The ideas the President outlined in the State of the Union are based on the very model that is causing the EU to implode - 29th January We shouldn’t try to outlaw bankers’ greed - Making excessive pay criminal is a step to tyranny, and it wouldn't work - 22nd January There’s more to politics than nice v nasty - The logic of free-market wealth creation must be clearly explained - 15th January The Tories shouldn't be frightened by the Republican Right - The trenchant moral case for the free market being made in America's election campaign should be heard in Britain, too - 8th January My predictions for 2012? Much of the same, sadly - The euro won't collapse, Barack Obama won't lose the White House - and Labour's lumbered with Ed Miliband - 1st January

Articles: 2011 Europe is the least of Labour's problems - The insularity that consigned the Labour Party to the wilderness in the 1980s has taken hold again - 18th December We in Britain should pity those still trapped in the euro nightmare - Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are engaged in something that has little to do with democracy - 11th December Eurozone crisis: the US has to ride to the rescue once again - The politicians of Europe seem determined to make themselves irrelevant - 4th December A daring idea to fix the economy: try doing less - The Government's solutions to the economic crisis are worryingly reminiscent of Gordon Brown's - 27th November Would a judge like to be told to eff off in court? - To permit people to swear freely at police undermines the rule of law and civilised society - 21st November There’s nothing new about this European folly - The governing class in Europe thinks it knows what is best - and once again, the people are being forced to accept it - 13th November Europe's democratic deficit grows wider by the day - The Eurocracy's contempt for the nation-states it governs is growing ever more flagrant - 6th November This was the week that European democracy died - The plan to tackle the eurozone crisis will only render ordinary people more powerless - 30th October Being slightly poorer might actually enrich our lives - It is not just relations between families that have been disrupted by prosperity - 16th October If women won’t spend their way out of the financial crisis, then we’re doomed - The only way to stimulate the economy is to return real money to the people who control the purse strings - 9th October The Tories must make clear what they really believe in - If the Conservative leadership really do want an outright election victory, they must start making the case for it now - 2nd October What is the point of the Labour Party? - The old Labour core vote is now irrevocably split and at odds with itself what ever Ed Miliband or Ed Balls says - 25th September The European dream lies in ruins - Europe's leaders seem incapable of solving the crisis unfolding in front of them - 18th September If we have the courage, more tyrants like Gaddafi will fall - Those who have argued that the Arabs aren't ready for democracy are being shown up as hypocrites - 28th August UK riots: The end of the liberals’ great moral delusion - The Left has gone into overdrive in its attempts to rewrite the history of the riots, but the public knows the truth - 21st August If we are to survive the looming catastrophe, we need to face the truth - The idea that a capitalist economy can support a socialist welfare state is collapsing before our eyes - 7th August Ministers know how to get us out of this mess – cut taxes - The Government putting political considerations ahead of sound economic sense - 30th July The euro bail-out is a conspiracy against democracy - The bail-out of the euro represents the introduction of socialism on a continental scale - with the British government's cynical endorsement - 24th July The 'BBC Left' is using hacking to get revenge - Left-wing politicians and broadcasters do not want to debate ideas but they do want to remove their opponents - 17th July British politics has been corrupted by a cosy camaraderie - The excessive intimacy between press and politicians has tainted our political culture - 10th July These middle-class militants will get a striking lack of sympathy - White-collar workers protecting their unjustifiable pensions stir far less compassion than the working-class militants of old - 3rd July Welcome to the era of reform by stealth - After the NHS debacle, the Government will have to bring in reforms via the back door - 26th June It's Westminster's dirty little secret: the Right is right - Politicians on all sides know that reform is needed, but they haven't the courage to tell the voters - 19th June Can anything be salvaged from the wreckage of New Labour? - The publication of Ed Balls's personal files shows how Gordon Brown and Tony Blair's project was doomed from the start - 12th June The Tories' own faint hearts have scuppered their NHS reforms - If the Tories had pitched the need for health service reform directly to the public, it might not have turned into such a debacle - 5th June Is President Obama all talk and no action? - The US President has produced little of substance to underpin his high-flown rhetoric about being willing to stand up for freedom - 29th May The Tories must give the voters what they want - Tory modernisers have baffled their supporters by turning their backs on policies the voters actually like and embracing ideas - such as carbon regulation and higher spending on overseas aid - that are actively unpopular - 22nd May Welfare handouts aren't fair – and the public knows it - A new survey shows that despite years of propaganda from the Left, Britons retain a deep-seated sense of fairness and individual responsibility - 24th April Cameron is taking us back to the feudal - The party appears to have returned to the old model of gentry-led Conservatism - 17th April The Tories have made success look like a train crash - The Conservatives' flagship policies are in good shape - but their grasp of politics is woefully lacking - 10th April Ed Miliband offers even less than Neil Kinnock - Labour is now an undisguised front for the public sector interest and apologist for untrammelled state power - 3rd April Slashing taxes would make us all better off - Ronald Reagan cut the top rate from 70 per cent to 28 per cent. That’s what you call a tax cut - 27th March If the Founding Fathers could see Obama now - The President's reluctance to act over Libya signals a new worrying direction for the United States - 20th March Budget 2011: Why the Tories can't talk about cutting taxes - Embracing the language of the Left won the Conservatives power, but has left them unable to make the case for lower taxation - 13th March Do you feel the Government is on your side? - The Coalition says it wants to motivate people, but it is undermining their ability to live a normal life - 6th March Libya and the Arabs deserve democracy - and our help - we must decide whether to give active help to those who want freedom, or to consign them to the Middle Ages - 27th February A simple question for David Cameron - are coalitions good or bad? - The Prime Minister cannot use the single best argument against the monstrous proposal to switch to AV - 20th February The Big Society starts with our wedding vows - Marriage is the perfect example of the moral vision that Mr Cameron hopes to rekindle - 12th February The Middle East needs more than elections - If the end result of the Egyptian crisis is a game of musical chairs between autocrats, we will be no further on - 6th February Cut or spend – you can't have it both ways - Where is the cabinet minister who will say that private prosperity is liberating - 30th January Reform must be rushed, or it won't happen at all - For the Coalition to deliver real reform, the vested interests in the health and education sectors must be confonted or simply bypassed - 23rd January Barack Obama captured the mood of a nation. Can David Cameron do the same? - The president's speech in Tuscon showed the transforming power of language - a power that David Cameron has thus far been unable to master - 16th January The battle is on for the soul of the Tory party - A brand new form of Conservatism has emerged wet and wriggling from Oliver Letwin and Francis Maude's laboratory - 9th January My New Year's prediction: The Coalition won’t collapse - just be hated - All the contortions and concessions required to keep the alliance going will lead to irreparable dissatisfaction - 1st January

Articles: 2010 At the next election, the Tories will be on their own - The speculation over the Coalition's long-term future ignores the reality - 19th December WikiLeaks is delinquent and anti-democratic - The website's insistence that it is a voice of open ‘freedom of expression’ is simply absurd - 12th December David Cameron needs to show us the leader, not the brand - The Conservatives are turning out to be far more principled than their critics feared - but will people believe it - 5th December Why don't we love David Cameron? - The Prime Minister is doing most things right, but he just can't capture the public's imagination - 28th November The freedom to excel should be extended to all - The Coalition’s proposals should have a tumultuous and welcome effect on public services - 21st November We can't afford moral certainty about torture - David Cameron's repudiation of George Bush's policy on waterboarding is logically flawed - 14th November The West is turning against big government - but what comes next? - The struggle to curtail the social democratic state could have ugly consequences - 7th November Midterm elections 2010: Prepare for a new American revolution - Popular rage against the elite could change the nature of US politics - 31st October Middle England is sacrificed for symbolism - The absurdity of middle-class welfare is now almost universally accepted - 17th October The Conservatives' child benefit plans sent precisely the wrong signal - The concept of fairness is not being applied to the middle classes - 10th October David Cameron must stand firm against Ed Miliband's unprincipled assault - Labour will attack the Coalition from every vantage point it can find - 3rd October The Tories must make the case for capitalism - Even if Labour becomes irrelevant electorally under Ed Miliband, its assumptions could dominate debate - 26th September The nightmare of union power is back again - The TUC conference shows that the dark days of the 1970s are not as distant as we might have hoped - 19th September The Terry Jones saga shows the strength of anti-Americanism - The 'pastor' who threatened to burn the Koran shows how eager Europe is to believe the worst of America - 11th September Labour must free itself from its ideological shackles - The unions, and the Labour Party, have been corrupted by the power of the state - 5th September You can take the middle class's benefits – if you lower their taxes - Child Benefit offers some recompense for what would otherwise feel like legalised robbery - 22nd August Labour can rise again as a party of the people - The authoritarian Big State is as much a threat to Labour’s values as Right-wing ideals - 15th August Council house row: why David Cameron is wrong - Putting time limits on tenancy would destroy any sense of community - 8th August The Coalition will split, but it won't be Labour's doing - The Coalition must be preserved until the Tories have won the Great Argument - 1st August Michael Gove can earn the gratitude of a generation - If the education revolution on offer succeeds, it will earn the Coalition a place among the great reforming governments - 25th July American politics has caught the British disease - Under Barack Obama, the phenomenon of class resentment is a live political issue - 18th July Copying the NHS is the last thing the US should do - The future health care in both countries must involve a mix of state and private provision - 11th July Making the jobless look for work is hardly cruelty - Paid unemployment as a lifestyle option is no longer sustainable - 4th July Want to protect the poor? Then give them jobs - Most people who are 'forced’ into minimum wage jobs move quite quickly up the earnings ladder - 27th June We will accept tax rises if they are truly fair - If its decisions are at odds with the moral values of the voters, the Coalition is finished - 20th June How everyone could win from the 'cuts’ - There is a way to get, quite literally, more for less in public spending - 6th June Labour is the natural party of opposition - Opposition suits New Labour, just as power suits the Conservatives - 30th May Labour must admit it - Big Government is dead - The political debate needs to move on to new and genuinely progressive territory - 16th May Did anyone else notice that the Lib Dems lost? - Electoral reform is not the issue of the day, but an issue the voters decisively rejected - 9th May The undecided will not decide this election - The people will make a conscious choice to take a clearly marked fork in the road - 2nd May General Election 2010: Gordon Brown rejects Lord Mandelson's cosy stitch-up - The Prime Minister seems to have spurned a deal with the Lib Dems - and rightly so - 25th April Does optimism have a place in British politics? - The great national tradition of ennui and cynicism is pouring out its acid rain - 19th April 2010 Will someone please tell us the truth? - The chorus of public frustration is deafening - and still the parties back away - 11th April The New Labour project was always destined to fail - The power of language defeated the forces of logic - 4th April The Tories have the vision but not the nerve - The Tories have a compelling plan for government, but they are too fearful to spell out what it is - 29th March The Tories have the vision but not the nerve - The Tories have a compelling plan for government, but they are too fearful to spell out what it is - 28th March David Cameron is selling a new Tory brand - but I'm not buying it yet - after years of modernisation, the Tories have still to convince enough of us that they should be given power - and wonders what became of the party that inspired her to vote Conservative in 1979 - 14th March All the passion in our politics has passed away - Michael Foot's death reminds us of a time when politics was a matter for everyone - 7th March The Conservatives must dare to defend their ideas - David Cameron is in danger of appearing too smooth and too comfortable in his own skin - 28th February Crisis is our best chance to make the state work - We have a golden opportunity to rethink the way we provide public services - 21st February Immigration: a plan to alter the nation's soul - The government's policy of mass immigration was intended to remodel the social fabric of the nation - 14th February This wasn't a wobble for the Tories, but a fiasco - David Cameron's backtracking on spending represented a major loss of nerve - 7th February Obama finds out who really holds power - On both sides of the Atlantic, the same group of people decide who wins elections - 31st January David Cameron has found a defiant voice at last - The Tories seem to have rediscovered the rewards of authenticity - 24th January Our immigrants' success is not down to Labour - The white working class should learn from the achievements of Britain's ethnic minorities - 17th January The Tories must tackle Labour's attacks head-on - The Conservatives must realise a wounded Labour can be more dangerous than a healthy one - 10th January You can 'aspire', but don't you dare achieve - The people that Mr Brown calls 'privileged' are just those who were once aspirational - 3rd January

Articles: 2009 There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government - 'Global' thinking won't necessarily solve the world's problems - 20th December Labour tax increases are a priceless gift to the Tories - Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report showed that New Labour has abandoned the aspiring classes on which its power was built - 13th December Why can't David Cameron seal the deal? - The Tories' wobble in the polls shows that David Cameron needs to be respected as well as liked - 6th December Home-grown terrorism: our values are not optional for minority groups - It would be better if we enforced Britain's cultural values on immigrant communities, rather than allowing them to dictate government policy - 30th November The frightening thing about the Queen's Speech was that Labour really believe it - The Queen's Speech shows that the Labour Government now acts as though the state is the only source of goodness - 22nd November NHS says it's too expensive to keep you alive - If we are to escape from dilemmas such as Nice's fateful decision on Nexavar, it can only be by permitting additional revenue streams into the NHS - 20th November Education Bill in the Queen's Speech is absurd - What could it mean for a government to 'guarantee' good education - 19th November Hate the EU? Then I beg you to vote Tory - David Cameron may have backed down on the Lisbon Treaty, but in power the Conservatives will work hard to decrease the power of Brussels - 8th November We have failed to learn from the death of communism in 1989 - Capitalism cannot 'collapse' because, unlike Marxism, it is not imposed from above - 1st November The lessons of Obama's healthcare programme for Britain - There is a difference between letting people keep their own money and the state giving them an equivalent amount - 25th October Fighting talk from David Cameron, but the real war lies ahead - David Cameron's promise of a smaller state has finally given the Conservatives real moral force - 11th October Tories must make the moral case for spending cuts - Better to have spending cuts made by the Tories, who believe in them, than by Labour, who don't - 4th October Thinking global brings a world of problems - The idea of global governance is meaningless without mechanisms to enforce it - 27th September David Cameron must finally tell us what he stands for - A new commitment to fairness would provide a compelling reason to vote for David Cameron's Conservatives - 20th September There is no class left in British politics - The revivalists of the Left summon a vision of working- class life as a peasant idyll - 14th September Lockerbie bomber: David Cameron's straight talk is what the public wants to hear - The Tory leader's sincerely felt anger over the Lockerbie case has been a glorious sight to behold - 6th September A man's instinct for violence can never be 'cured' - Chris Grayling's trivial reference to the cult TV show 'The Wire' sabotaged the real message - 30th August Ted Kennedy death: how the Kennedys changed America - Janet Daley reflects on the three brothers whose politics inspired Sixties idealism, but whose sordid private lives helped to destroy it - 27th August Afghanistan election: Would you risk your life to cast a vote? - People who make pains to deride the Afghan election are deliberately missing the point - 23rd August Nothing is as liberating as prosperity - It was the Conservatives who broke the mould by offering economic self-determination - which is the real hallmark of a progressive society - 16th August The real reason for all those louts on holiday - From Riga to the West End, a certain section of British society behaves appallingly because there is nothing to stop it doing so - 9th August Barack Obama's oratory loses its oomph - The President's eloquent yet vague rhetoric is not enough to drive through difficult health care reform - and there is a lesson here for David Cameron - 26th July Tories are too scared of their own shadow - David Cameron's party must find the courage to stick to one over-arching Conservative tenet - 19th July We have had enough of con artists - In art as in politics, people have begun to see through the charade to the emptiness that lies beneath - 12th July Brown's 'fairness' is not what people want - Labour has completely misunderstood the public's opinion on inequality - 5th July Here's a Tory war cry – power to the people - Individuals must be given control of that portion of their wealth that they hand to the state - 28th June Let's use the politics revival to kill class war - This ridiculous obsession poisons public discourse and distorts attempts at reform - 21st June We'd all prefer spending cuts to tax rises - Both Labour and the Conservatives have failed to grasp that there is a huge public appetite for cutting government spending - 14th June The Tories must beware the rise of Lord Mandelson - David Cameron looks set to win the next election, but there is still a remote chance that Gordon Brown might do something tactically clever in his final months of power - 7th June A 'new politics' depends on basic disagreement - The reforms that are being put forward to fix our political system are, at best, beside the point and, at worst, pernicious - 31st May MPs' expenses: Our politicians could learn a lesson from congressmen - American politicians see their time in Washington as a period of public service, not an alternative lifestyle - 17th May I still remember politicians who had principles - MPs once devoted their lives to resolving issues that matter, rather than gathering material goods - 10th May The Tories must do more than simply wait for victory - To convince voters, David Cameron's Conservatives need to develop a positive alternative programme for when they take power - 3rd May Our gravest danger is a 'false' economy - The Government seems to want to turn the market into a fiction which would not only fail to create wealth but would lose any sense of the real meaning of that term - 25th April America under Barack Obama is taking a long, cold look at its transatlantic relations - Europe's passion for the States is unlikely to be reciprocated - 13th April Barack Obama can't make rogues like North Korea play by his rules - The US President is in no position promise to rid the world of the Bomb - 6th April G20: If capitalism is 'overthrown', we'll lose our political freedom - International regulation to manage the economic crisis could have dangerous results - 30th March Tories should be 'honest and straight' with the public sector - Getting it Right: As part of a series of articles on how the Conservative party should tackle the future, Janet Daley argues that we should consult those who work in state services if we want sensible criticism - 23rd March The Republicans can take heart as Obama staggers to the Left - The President's recent display of liberalism – and confusion – can only help the opposition - 16th March When Barack Obama and Gordon Brown see 'opportunity', we really do have a crisis - The Left is threatening our freedom by using the downturn to bolster the power of the state - 9th March Is a form of state capitalism really what Gordon Brown wants? - When the Prime Minister spoke of 'creating an economy' he was talking nonsense - 2nd March 2009 Tradition is the next big idea in politics. But why stop at banking? - The Prime Minister should extend his focus on old-fashioned values to schools and crime - 23rd February 2009 The more we discuss religious differences the safer we will be - Banning any discussion about the nature of the Koran just plays into the hands of bigots and demagogues - 16th February 2009 No prize in sight for David Cameron's triumph in the schools debate - how can we deliver high-quality state schooling to everyone, or at least to more than the small minority who manage to wrestle their way into the few outstanding institutions where proper academic standards are maintained? - 9th February Wildcat oil strikes: Europeans are finally waking up to the demise of democracy - Angry people across the EU are discovering the fine print in all the treaties signed by their leaders - 2nd February BBC is right to ban Gaza appeal, but for the wrong reasons - It is not the job of an impartial broadcaster to decide issues of foreign policy - 26th January Barack Obama: It's time for action from the man of words - Barack Obama has a remarkable gift for oratory, but does it mask a fatal indecisiveness - 19th January Return of the Blairites spells trouble for Cameron - Alan Milburn's radical ideas for public service reform could make the Conservatives irrelevant - 12th January David Cameron must show that Gordon Brown is wrong about big government - Our Prime Minister has begun the year by making his plans for the future absolutely clear: he is going to grab every conceivable headline and perpetrate every systematic lie that is required to outmanoeuvre the Conservatives - 5th January

Articles: 2008 Recession: If you want people to spend, don't take their cash away - Any attempt by the Government to print money to stimulate the economy will make things worse, because it won't cure the lack of consumer confidence - 15th December 2008 Would an Ofsted inspector have helped? - the Ed Balls-Alan Johnson social services circus shows once again that Labour has only one 'solution' - and that is bureaucracy - 8th December 2008 (see: Government to reform social services after Baby P case - Daily Telegraph, 7th December 2008) Arresting MPs happen in dictatorships - Our freedoms are under threat from a government desperate to save its own credibility - 1st December 2008 It is the whole state that needs cutting - The desperate attempts to ease the financial crisis miss the central point that it has been caused by governments over-extending themselves - 24th November 2008 No battle with the Right, Ken Clarke - the former Chancellor's loyalty to George Osborne is misplaced - 21st November 2008 Tories must offer middle class tax cuts - The Opposition should shed its position as the guardian of 'fiscal responsibilty' and radicalise tax cuts by offering them more widely - 17th November 2008 Obama's lesson to UK: tax cuts win votes - British politicians from both parties misunderstand the true nature of the President-Elect's victory and its meaning for this country - 10th November 2008 Barack Obama victory will hurt US firms - and world economy - America is about to elect the most inexperienced candidate at a time of great international risk and unprecedented economic instability - 3rd November 2008 Bad times could get worse under the Left - The real revelation of this past week has been the impotence and irrelevance of government policies - 13th October 2008 Where were you when Europe's leaders had their cosy little chat? - The American bail-out battle was certainly undignified at times, but at least the hopes and fears of the electorate were taken into account - 6th October 2008 Capitalism is under attack - and Cameron is steadfast in defence - In the face of the banking crisis, all the lost arguments of the last century are returning, so it's vital that the Tories stay true to pro-market principles - 29th September 2008 Markets must be free - Tighter financial regulations can only ever be temporary in a world where money can move anywhere in an instant - 22nd September 2008 Brown's woes are not a Labour problem - That the Prime Minister's ineptitude is presented as a party political matter is a measure of just how out of touch our rulers are - 15th September 2008 Look across the pond for lessons in listening - We may snigger at Sarah Palin, but Britain's patronising political elite could learn a lot from an election where ordinary voters still call the shots - 8th September 2008 Palin gets spiteful Thatcher treatment - The viciousness of the attacks on Sarah Palin is a testimony to the degree of panic her appointment has generated in Leftist circles - 4th September 2008 McCain needs to get serious - and warn about a global tempest - The Republicans could steal the show if they appear grave and grown-up against Obama's 'happy-clappy' extravaganza - 1st September 2008 Obama will lose for not being American enough - The race for the White House will not be determined by skin colour, despite what so many Left-wing pundits are saying - 25th August 2008 Outrageous cheek of Democrat bloggers - Only one candidate in the US Presidential contest is getting an easy ride from the media and it's not John McCain - 20th August 2008 Cameron and McCain would defy Russia - As Gordon Brown lies low and Barack Obama looks insubstantial, their opponents are coming to the fore - 18th August 2008 Beware of pick-pocketing politicians bearing fuel allowance gifts - Is there no limit to Gordon Brown's infinite mercy? - 11th August 2008 David Miliband will galvanise Labour so the Tories should get ready - The challenge to Gordon Brown will shake this Government into action. Now David Cameron must stop teasing and start talking policy - 4th August 2008 archive

News & updates: The new poverty and a happy society - Janet Daley, the worst columnist in Britain, excelled herself recently. Writing over the weekend, Daley argued that being slightly poorer would enrich our lives. Amol Rajan, FreeView from the editors at i, The Independent.

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Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Daley