I am occasionally asked by the ‘Evening Standard’ to submit ‘Comment’ pieces. Please find below a letter sent this week. The Editor Evening Standard 5 August 2011 Dear Sir Lord Oakeshott, who seems to know the contents of the final Sir John Vickers report on banking well before its publication on 12...
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The Devil’s Deal
Brilliant, aggressive, flawed are words which only begin to describe the hero and the villain of Richard Lambert’s first brilliant novel. Weaving his extensive business experience into the story you are led through the exciting world of small company finance in a masterful way.
Calm Down Dave
In 2010 David Cameron lost an election which, according to the author, "he should have won hands down"
In 'Calm Down Dave' Tony Drury provides overwhelming evidence for his reservations about the Cameron led 'liberal lurch' of the Conservative Party.
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Mr. Angry’s in a tango
Mr. Angry exploded with rage this week when he learnt that the Coalition Government’s promised ‘Quango bonfire’ had been extinguished. He tangoed around pictures of leading politicians as he read the detail. More than 4,500 bureaucrats have been taken on by Government departments in the last fifteen months. This outnumbers redundancies by three to...
London riots and the role of social networks
As I heard the helicopters hovering overhead I remember back to the last period of rioting in Brixton in 1985 and my last vivid images of Brixton High Street on fire and my heart sank. Firstly it sank for all those people in North London who had already lost their home and business and...
A topsy turvy week in travel?
It’s been a real rollercoaster of a week for the travel industry as we see pictures of disappointed, crying children at the airport deprived of their holiday due to the collapse of Holidays4u. Travel Weekly claims that this has affected more than 60,000 holidaymakers. There is no doubt that 2011 has proved to be...
Addicted to rehab?
The sad passing of another high profile celebrity with a well publicised drug addiction has brought the issue of alcohol abuse and rehabilitation back into the media spotlight. Paul Hayes, NTA Chief Executive recently wrote an open letter to The Times defending NHS waiting times for rehabilitation services and making the following significant statement,...
“Hang him high” demands Mr. Angry
Mr. Angry is referring to a bald headed maverick called Steve Hilton. He works, at the tax payer’s expensive, in Downing Street. He is Dave’s ‘Blue Skies’ thinker. He fancies a happiness index which he managed to re-launch in the middle of the News International crisis. One of his crazy ideas is to allow...
You need some room to manoeuvre
Last week I spent a few days in Athens, Greece. The weather was fantastic, the people I met wonderful, the food to die for and the taxis on strike. No worries about getting around as courtesy of the Olympics the tram and the metro system were excellent, cheap (for those of us who actually...
Bucket List
I get a little bit annoyed when people talk about work/life balance. There’s no such thing: there’s life and then you choose what to fill it with. If you think about it for a second there’s no logic in the phrase ‘work/life’. The presumption is that if you are at work then you are...
Something’s missing!
Dr Meredith Belbin said that, in an ideal world, every team needs to have a mixture of people undertaking different roles. It’s true: where would a team be if it had ten leaders and no doers? Well, probably exactly where they started, ‘cos they’ll all be arguing and trying to impose their will on...
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Goodbye Dave
Tony Drury's first book in the trilogy about the new direction of the Conservative Party, where Tony reveals his very personal reasons for leaving the party after 30 years of dedicated service to it.
In his own unique way Tony is able to capture the mood of many in the party and he has had the courage to put it in print. Along the way he adds many fascinating experiences and anecdotes.
"Goodbye Dave" is a 'must read' for anyone with any political interest.
