Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

“Hell, if the Jedi can do it, why can’t metalheads? The force is strong in us.”
- Alexander Milas, editor of Metal Hammer magazine, who has launched a campaign to recognise heavy metal as a religion in the 2011 UK census. (full story HERE)

“I want to be Prime Minister.”
- the caption on the Christmas card sent by Labour Chief Whip Nick Brown, just below a photo of Nick Clegg dressed as the David Bowie alter ego Ziggy Stardust when he was 22. Clegg told The Sun: “Both myself and Nick Brown have good reason to be embarrassed. I posed for [...]

“This year the choice was unanimous. Rod Stewart, Brian Jones, Keith Richards in their prime were schoolboys compared to him.”
- Rolling Stone magazine’s Italian editor Carlo Antonelli, explaining why Silvio Berlusconi has won the ’Rock Star of the Year’ title.  The Italian version of Rolling Stone magazine chose the 73-year-old prime minister and media tycoon for “a [...]

Dear Pirate Party,
As of 30th July 2009, you have become an official political party in the UK after registering with the electoral commission.  This means that you can now have Pirate Party candidates standing at the next general election.  I doubt that this will attract any attention at a local level, but I wonder if [...]

“There’s no way they’re ever going to get that”
- Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of two, who has been found guilty of wilful copyright infringement and must pay $1.92m after a retrial in a US court, making her the first person to be successfully sued for illegal filesharing in the US. A court awarded the Recording [...]

Dear readers,
It’s not often I stray away from mainstream politics but I just thought I’d take this chance to give a shout out to one of my favourite musicians over the past decade or so.

Meet Elliot Marley.  Sadly for him, Elliot spent most of his music career in the shadow of his slightly more talented [...]

If you have been looking for clear and unequivocal evidence that society and the world at large is in a state of terminal decline and has been for the last few decades, THIS IS IT.