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.

“Be sustainable: Don’t buy sex.”
- the message on postcards distributed in Copenhagen as part of an anti-prostitution initiative undertaken by Copenhagen city hall during the UN climate summit.  However, the prostitutes - whose work is not illegal in Denmark – have fought back and members of a Danish sex workers association will now be offering their services for free [...]

“At a brothel I worked in, I think I was the only one not doing a PhD.”
- Catherine Stephens, an activist for the International Union of Sex Workers, responding to the news that Dr Brooke Magnanti, a research scientist at Bristol University, revealed over the weekend that she was ‘Belle de Jour’ - author of the Diary [...]

“In closing, I would like to thank you for the huge influx of traffic to my website which your actions have caused. I am sure that the ladies who are a part of the PunterNet community thank you as well, as they will no doubt benefit financially from the many new clients who might otherwise never [...]

Dear Dominic Grieve,
I wrote to you a few months back about legalising drugs and caused quite a stir in my comments section as a result.  The papers today carry an interesting story that serves as a valuable lesson to those who think that liberalising our attitudes towards drugs and prostitution is a good thing.  Almost [...]

Dear Lynne Jones,
As a fairly anonymous Labour MP, you get away with saying slightly more stupid things than the people at the top of your party (and that’s saying something).  Your call earlier this year for prostitution to be legalised was a wonderful example of your spectacular inability to grasp a few basic truths about [...]