Tag Archives: David Cameron

Morrissey Hasn’t Changed

Essay at The Spectator by yours truly on why Morrissey is constantly going to disappoint those who want him to be some kind of ‘singing Stephen Fry with a quiff’.

March 15, 2012 – 12:30 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, journalism, Morrissey | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Put a Ring On It

My old friend the (gay) human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, once loathed by the popular press for his ‘radical extremism’, is the biggest, loudest voice in the UK calling for same sex marriage. Or was, until he found himself in bed recently with David Cameron, the Conservative Prime Minister, who stole his thunder somewhat by …

October 18, 2011 – 11:30 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (10)

A Nation Turns Its Back and Gags

I shall never be able to play The Smiths again without thinking of Prime Minster David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague sharing a hotel room — and Cameron complaining about Hague’s disappointing endowment.

December 9, 2010 – 3:32 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

CleggCam: The ‘Progressive Partnership’ Giving it to You Both Ends

A few months back I wrote a piece for The Times arguing that straight couples should be allowed to have civil partnerships. But now that I’ve seen the UK’s first straight civil partnership ceremony in the Rose Garden of Number 10 Downing Street I’m not so sure. In the romantic Spring sunshine the groom and the …

May 12, 2010 – 10:38 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in politics | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

Dave’s Posh Skin, Nick’s Cute Hair, and Gordon’s Bleached Rictus

by Mark Simpson It’s difficult not to feel a little sorry for Gordon Brown. Even if you really don’t want to. I mean, imagine spending over a decade trying to wrest the leadership of the Labour Party — and the UK — from that insufferably posh boy Tony Blair and when you finally succeed the global …

April 30, 2010 – 4:00 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , | Comments (8)

The Tories’ New Section 28

by Mark Simpson (Guardian CIF, 25 March 2010) Whatever happened to the Tory party of the 1980s that refused to use taxpayers’ money to prop up failing industries making things people didn’t want? That told us sternly, usually in a helmet of hair-lacquer, “the market must decide”? It turns out the Tories aren’t so laissez-faire if …

March 25, 2010 – 5:23 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in gay, gay marriage | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)

Marriage: David Cameron’s Lame Duck Industry

From The London Times David Cameron has propelled marriage to the centre of the election campaign after surprising the Tory party faithful with a promise to spell out his flagship policy before polling day. Rallying the troops after a narrowing of the poll lead, the Conservative leader said that he would announce details of tax …

March 1, 2010 – 12:30 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)

Queer Eye of the Tory Guy Headed For Number 10

After yesterday’s disastrous Nantwich by-election defeat for Gordon Brown by David Cameron’s resurgent, re-branded, made-over, moisturised Tories, which came hard on the heels of the drubbing the Brown One received a few weeks ago in the English local council elections, the media — and a substantial part of the Labour Party itself — is now …

May 23, 2008 – 11:14 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Gordon Isn’t a Moron — But He’s a Terrible Liar

Gordon Brown, Labour’s leader-in-waiting, can’t win the next election. This week’s address to the Labour Party Conference might as well have been his speech conceding victory to David Cameron. Why is Gordie such a liability? Not because of the disdainful verdict of dodgy Newsnight focus groups, or his recent impatient unleashing of political-suicide bombers on …

September 28, 2006 – 2:11 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)