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 Mary Helen Immordino-Yang,
My initial reaction when I saw the headline [...]

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 [...]

Like many other people, I think Facebook and social networking in general is a great invention.  It can bring people together, join those with common interests and help them to share ideas and information.  The only problem is that uniting people with the same agenda isn’t always a good idea.

I think most people have put something daft on a social networking site at some point.  An embarrassing photo, a stupid wall post, a jokey remark - I’m sure you catch my drift.  I was always a bit more cautious than most, hence my decision to use every privacy setting available on Facebook to make sure [...]

Dear Facebook,
I’m not one of those people who always cries foul whenever a website tries to access my personal information because they legally have to give you a chance of opting out of everything – which I invariably do.  However, Facebook is clearly pushing the boundaries by changing privacy settings without telling anyone in the [...]

Dear readers,
I am not shy about using Facebook at home.  In fact, it’s an absolute revelation when it comes to keeping track of people and events etc.
BUT
Surely employers (especially public sector organisations) should ban Facebook to prevent it eating up their employee’s time?  When you read articles like this, it does make you wonder about [...]