Articles by Simon Campion-Brown

I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I find David Cameron a pretty unimpressive politician, having for many years now alighted upon (and stuck to) the view that he’s little more than a Tory version of Tony Blair. In other words, despite all his brave words and gestures – I’m not saying [...]

The world of politics has entered a confused and yet fascinating stage. Even if you take the view that Labour has entered a ‘lunatics have taken over the asylum’ phase, the Tories are hardly faring much better. With David Cameron – their version of Tony Blair – having publicly [...]

When it comes to discussing important matters such as global politics, religion, one man’s terrorist being another’s freedom fighter, good versus evil, the meaning of life, common human values, the defence of civil liberties versus government’s key responsibility  to protect the public, ‘I [...]

I like to maintain that I’m apolitical and impartial when it comes to the British political system and how it operates. On top of that, I certainly possess neither the intelligence nor the interest in the subject to understand all the undoubted complexities of the current cause celebre in the [...]

A champion of free speech/enterprise or an interfering Nanny State? Which of those two should an ideal modern, dynamic but caring government be? It’s an aspect of politics that has always fascinated me. I used to take the simplistic view that best way to characterise politics was that (in the UK) [...]

This morning in the Daily Telegraph – and on this subject (pardon me for this) I do not know the paper’s official editorial stance – there is a feature article claiming that a significant group of Tory donors, business leaders and senior politicians are now backing the campaign to leave the [...]