Articles by: Parliament Street

Views From The Ground: How the Lib Dems Are Damaging Colchester’s Skyline

Views From The Ground: How the Lib Dems Are Damaging Colchester’s Skyline

In this edition of ‘Views From The Ground’, Parliament Street hears from Darius Laws. Darius is a director, cinematographer and Conservative Party activist from Colchester, Essex. He argues that the local Liberal Democrats are ruining all hopes of reviving one of Colchester’s most memorable landmarks.  It’s about time that Bob Russell,the Lib Dem Member of Parliament for Colchester, gave up […]

by and · 4th March 2015 · Tory Thought
Views From The Ground: West Ham and Labour’s Failing Housing Policy

Views From The Ground: West Ham and Labour’s Failing Housing Policy

    In this first edition of ‘Views From The Ground’ Parliament Street hears from Festus Akinbusoye. Festus is the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for West Ham, East London. He argues that although an extremely important issue, building homes should not involve ignoring the concerns of existing local people. As is being seen in Labour run Newham. The opportunity to stand […]

by and · 22nd February 2015 · Blog
Join Us:  Dr. Liam Fox- Key risks to the UK economy in 2015

Join Us: Dr. Liam Fox- Key risks to the UK economy in 2015

Join Parliament Street at Kings College, London for a special announcement from The Rt. Hon. Dr. Liam Fox MP. Tickets are free. Please purchase yours by visiting the eventbrite page. Dr. Fox was appointed Secretary of State for Defence by Prime Minister David Cameron on 12th May 2010. He resigned from this position on Friday 14th October 2011 and returned to […]

by and · 17th February 2015 · Events
Opinion: How the West is Failing Libya

Opinion: How the West is Failing Libya

  Tom Lahey argues that the West should be doing more to protect Libya from the evil forces of ISIL. In 2011, an opportunity presented itself to the Western powers to intervene in a revolution in Libya and overthrow long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi. NATO- led by Britain and France, with support from other allies including the United States- provided much […]

by and · 16th February 2015 · Uncategorized
What underpins the electoral success of UKIP?

What underpins the electoral success of UKIP?

In this new Parliament Street paper, James Somper writes that Ukip’s performance at the polls is underpinned by the ‘political disaffection’ of a minority who feel that ‘their values and preferences’ have been excluded from the contemporary political arena.

by · 15th February 2015 · Research
Parliament Street Findings: Met Police misplace more than 1,000 electronic gadgets since 2010

Parliament Street Findings: Met Police misplace more than 1,000 electronic gadgets since 2010

Thousands of laptops and mobile phone devices have been lost by officers and staff of the Metropolitan Police, since 2010. Some 24 laptops, 251 personal digital assistants (PDAs) and 172 BlackBerry handsets were mislaid by employees of the Met Police in nearly five years from 2010. The statistics, revealed following a freedom of information request, also showed that 21 BlackBerrys, nine […]

by and · 9th February 2015 · Tech Frontiers
Poor Tristram Hunt: Labour will be catastrophic for education

Poor Tristram Hunt: Labour will be catastrophic for education

Steve Mastin argues that although a 1st rate historian, Tristram Hunt is a third rate politician and a fourth rate shadow education secretary.  On May 8th, we could wake up to find not only that Miliband and Balls hold the levers of power but, worse still, that Tristram Hunt is Education Secretary.  I say we, meaning those like me who are teachers […]

by and · 9th February 2015 · Tory Thought
Opinion: Looking ahead to The Commonwealth

Opinion: Looking ahead to The Commonwealth

Writing for Parliament Street, Chad Blackman offers an interesting insight into what the future could hold for Britain and The Commonwealth.    With a general election in the United Kingdom a mere three months away and with the possibility of one of the world’s largest global trading nations and players, leaving the European Union (EU) trading bloc, there is arguably […]

Examining the differences between U.S and UK elections

Examining the differences between U.S and UK elections

Parliament Street’s newest contributor, Tom Lahey, writes about how American campaigns operate and how it differs from his experience here in the UK so far, as the General Election approaches. For what it’s worth, American campaigns aren’t all well-run. Sure, you have massive operations like Romney or Obama 2012 where the campaigns have the candidate’s every move choreographed to the […]

Why the EU will always fail to free itself of the “awkward member”

Why the EU will always fail to free itself of the “awkward member”

Parliament Street’s Tom Hunt argues that unless the EU elites give ground and recognise their inability to transcend ingrained political cultures, the European project in destined for failure. The European elite have tried and failed in their attempts at trying to get different European nation states to conform to particular ways of behaving and expressing themselves economically. This has been […]