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.

“[It is] disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation’s economy on the brink of collapse”.
- Darrell Issa, the senior Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in America, after it emerged that senior watchdog [...]

“Anna is liberal and open-minded but politically she supports The Labour Party, for all its sins.”
- a note on the website of Anna Arrowsmith, a porn film director and the new PPC for the Lib Dems in the constituency of Gravesham.  Her website also mentions that she is “into all sorts of things, mainly partying [...]

“Nearly a century ago, it probably seemed the perfect name for a magazine about the fur trade and Canada’s northwest frontier.”
- Deborah Morrison, publisher of Canada’s second-oldest magazine - The Beaver – which is changing its name after 90 years because the title is too often censored by online porn filters, preventing it from reaching new readers. ”The [...]

“For the state to decide that feminist porn is art but ‘regular’ porn is reprehensible is little more than paternalistic moralising.”
- Beatrice Fredriksson, a founder of Sweden’s Anti-Feminist Initiative and a member of the country’s ruling Moderate Party, who has accused the Swedish government of abusing of taxpayers’ money after it helped to fund the production of [...]

“It didn’t happen a lot, I was much more angry with him about the fact that we had not properly checked the expense claim than I was about the film.”
- Jacqui Smith, former Home Secretary, who has revealed that she and her husband argued about his use of pornography before her expenses claim for two blue [...]

Dear Darryn Walker,
Although it didn’t cause much of a ripple in the mainstream media, the end of your court case this week concluded a rather uncomfortable saga for bloggers around the country.  You were cleared of breaching the Obscene Publications Act with a story that you wrote about Girls Aloud on an internet site, which described in [...]

“Her final humiliation came at the hands of her husband”
- Iain Dale, discussing Jacqui Smith’s decision to quit as Home Secretary (full post HERE)

“They were completely inappropriate for somebody who is a teacher. They were absolutely not pornographic but do you want to see your teacher in that way?”
- Ben Slade, head teacher of Manor Community College in Cambridge, who clearly doesn’t understand hormonal teenagers very well as a PE teacher at his school faces disciplinary action after [...]

“It’s believed that two adult features went on the bill by mistake”
- how sources described the fact that in Jacqui’s Smith Commons expenses for last June, claims were submitted for two adult films that were ordered at home by her husband while she was away.  Jacqui Smith has apologised, saying in a statement that the claim had been [...]

“I want to send a message to all those who mismanaged our savings”
- the message shouted by Laura Perego, an Italian porn actress, as she stripped off in the Milan stock exchange yesterday in a protest at financiers.  She walked into the stock market in a black coat, which she took off to reveal her [...]

“Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation’s most important businesses, and we feel we deserve the same consideration.”
- porn baron Larry Flynt, who is seeking a $5 billion bailout from Washington to rejuvenate the industry, which he says is suffering because of the economic downturn.  He has asked the 111th Congress, which convened [...]

Dear Jack Straw,
At first, I thought Andy Burnham’s desire to control everything and everyone on the Internet only managed to squeak through onto the front pages because there was no other news around.  Now I’m not so sure.  All of Labour’s recent covert activities, it seems, are coming to light over the Christmas period and [...]