This week I've found myself in a position I never imagined I could ever be in. I know exactly how Tiger Woods feels.  read more »

I have no idea how he would have come across on the GMTV sofa, but sometimes I think all our political problems could be solved if the man being lined up to be our next Foreign Secretary was not Lord Mandelson but Lord Palmerston.  read more »

Michael Gove calls for the raising of standards, support for teachers and less bureaucracy.  read more »

Very glad to see, according to Saturday's Times, that antlers are back.  read more »

We men have many weaknesses.  read more »

Michael Gove outlines Conservative priorities for school reform.  read more »

We live in a world where the greatest compliment is not to be thought wise, right or just but in tune, on trend and leading edge.  read more »

The problem with the Conservative Party, Evelyn Waugh once argued, is that we have never put the clock back by even a single second.  read more »

Abraham Lincoln? David Lloyd George? Winston Churchill? Who in the pantheon of Gove heroes should take pride of place?  read more »

Over many hundreds of years mankind has evolved subtle and intricate rituals to mark the transition young males must make from boyhood to maturity.  read more »