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.

Welcome to ‘Letters From A Tory’, covering British politics from a conservative perspective. Please leave a comment if you have any thoughts about today’s letter, and don’t forget that you can CLICK HERE to get my letters sent to you by RSS every morning.Dear Nightjack,
Your quest to protect your identity is at an end, [...]

Without doubt my favourite image from Google Street View submitted to the BBC in their feature on bizarre images caught by the new service.  That said, Google has apparently been hit by a “wave of privacy complaints” after Street View was launched.  They said yesterday that it had removed scores of photographs from the site, including [...]

Dear Sarah Palin,
That was supposed to be it, the end, the finale, bye bye.  Your humiliating stint as VP candidate in the Presidential election was supposed to send you a message about your suitability for being one of the most powerful people in the world.  Not only are you refusing to give up on your Presidential ambitions, you’ve dragged [...]

Dear Tom Harris,
Openly admitting to agreeing with Labour MPs is not something I do lightly.  I spend the majority of my time distancing myself from our faltering government and the sleaze allegations that seem to reveal themselves with alarming regularity these days.  On Monday evening, the Commons voted to change the rules on the publication [...]

Dear Jeremy Hunt,
It’s fair to say that the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) is not the most highly respected organisation in media circles.  Newspapers consider it more of an obstacle than anything else.  As Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, I wondered if you had any plans to do anything about this, especially in light of the media frenzy over [...]

Dear Matt Lewis,
Waking up on a Saturday morning is difficult enough for most people, but for you waking up today must be a pretty horrible experience.  Almost every paper has run with the story about your questionable decision to dress up as a dead Madeleine McCann at a fancy dress party, with the Daily Mail [...]

Dear Paul Dacre,
Not content with being in the unfortunate position of editing the Daily Mail, you have chosen to dig an even deeper hole for yourself today by accusing a High Court judge of bringing in a privacy law against the British press by the back door.  You seem to think that Max Mosley’s victory in [...]

Dear Sienna Miller,
Seeing as the financial crisis and the Brand/Ross debacle continue to bore everyone, it was interesting to see your landmark legal action about the paparazzi get some coverage today.  Unlike Russell Brand being an insensitive, vulgar and obnoxious idiot, I find your legal case genuinely interesting and it is an issue that I [...]

Dear Max Mosley.
Yikes.  Even though you are a powerful man as boss of Formula 1’s governing body, this really was a bit of a shocker.  Being caught with a prostitute is one thing, but being caught with five prostitutes engaging in a sado-masochistic ‘Nazi orgy’ was probably a bit of overkill.  Should anyone care?  Well, [...]