Fraser Nelson



Profile:
Full name: Fraser Nelson

Area of interest: Politics

Journals/Organisation: The Spectator | The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:fraser.nelson@telegraph.co.uk fraser.nelson@telegraph.co.uk]

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Blog: Spectator.co / Fraser Nelson

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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/frasernels



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Career: Previously political editor of The Scotsman Current position/role: editor of The Spectator


 * also writes/has written for: political columnist for the News of the World; political editor of The Business; occasional guest columnist for The Times

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Other: 'Spectator' editor vows not to soil his hands with politics, interview with Matthew Bell, The Independent, 14th March 2010



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Speaking/Appearances: The Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture, Centre for Policy Studies, 3rd February 2010

Current debate:the motion'' - Are free markets a necessary and sufficient condition for free minds, or do they leave us prey to over-powerful corporations? - Centre for Policy Studies debate on Rupert Murdoch's Inaugural Margaret Thatcher Lecture October 2010 

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Articles:
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 * Welcome to tricolour Britain, a country divided along party lines - A political landscape is emerging in which no one can lay claim to nationwide appeal - 27th April 2012
 * Cameron should beware angry mothers - Immigration makes it harder to get into a good school - 20th April 2012
 * The taxman will strangle our culture of giving - A Treasury assault on charitable donations is intolerable - 13th April 2012
 * The snooping Bill is out to catch crooks, not ensnare terrorists - The hysterical debate over 'national security’ has lost sight of some reasonable goals - 6th April 2012
 * George Osborne is still not being bold enough with the Budget - The Chancellor’s slow-motion cuts are dragging out the austerity process - 23rd March 2012
 * How can Osborne be a part-time Chancellor? - It’s all down to Rupert Harrison, the most powerful man you’ve never heard of - 17th March 2012
 * Brown’s flawed policy keeps people in poverty - Efforts to tackle deprivation will fail if tied to an old agenda - 16th March 2012
 * US visit: David Cameron might listen to Mitt Romney - While in the US, the Prime Minister should look at Romney’s plans to stimulate growth - 9th March 2012
 * The Budget: the 50p tax rate is a bomb that a brave Chancellor would defuse - A radical Budget from George Osborne will prevent an exodus of wealth from the UK - 2nd March 2012
 * The private sector exposes fraud where the state only lets it fester - The Left’s campaign to keep profit out of public services must not be allowed to succeed - 24th February 2012
 * Pensioners are paying the price for Sir Mervyn’s 'funny money’ - Mr Osborne should come clean about the long-term effects of quantitative easing - 10th February 2012
 * If Labour ditched David and Ed Miliband, it could win an election - The Labour leadership doesn’t know how to play its cards - 3rd February 2012
 * Clegg is right to sound the alarm on Osbornomics - Where are the Conservative ideas on the economy - 27th January 2012
 * David Cameron is the only party leader who truly understands capitalism - The Prime Minister knows that the free-market system is hard-wired into our national DNA - 20th January 2012
 * Tough love: let's get people off welfare and into Pret - Ministers should face down the Lords over curbs to benefit payments - 13th January 2012
 * Poverty, not colour, is the real dividing line in modern Britain - It is the poor, both black and white, who are the truly marginalised members of society - 6th January 2012
 * How can we remain silent while Christians are being persecuted? - A new evil is sweeping the Middle East and the Foreign Office is failing to confront it - 23rd December 2011
 * Profit needn’t be a dirty word when it comes to education - Michael Gove might have kept quiet about Breckland Free School, but it could be the start of something great - 16th December 2011
 * Cameron has been infected by Europe’s technocratic disease - The deal being cooked up between Merkel and Sarkozy is a cynical sham – so why is the PM too polite to say so - 9th December 2011
 * If the workers can grasp the need for austerity, why can’t Labour? - The Opposition is so wedded to spending that it can’t see the public has moved on - 2nd December 2011
 * We are in danger of forgetting the riots – and ignoring their lessons - Just because problems appear intractable, it doesn’t mean that the Government shouldn’t try to fix them - 24th November 2011
 * Working pensioners show Osborne the way out of this crisis - Tax cuts for the low paid will reduce unemployment by encouraging people back to work - 18th November 2011
 * For all the wars we have fought, Britain still has much to learn - Despite ministers’ best efforts, we still lag far behind America in caring for our war veterans - 11th November 2011
 * The eurozone crisis can’t hide George Osborne’s shortcomings for ever - The Chancellor's ploy of setting new records for state spending every month isn’t the best way to cut our deficit - 4th November 2011
 * The EU plates are shifting – and Cameron risks being stranded - As Europe is reshaped, both party and country are urging the Prime Minister to seize Britain’s moment - 28th October 2011
 * blow to an already struggling industry'' - British newspapers are haemorrhaging readers and influence, and next Sunday we will see just how much this process has accelerated - 15th July 2011
 * of the World'' - The last edition of the News of the World is now out, saying "Thank You & Goodbye - 9th July 2011
 * Lansley's mistake was to force Cameron into battle over the NHS'' - Labour had put in place market-based reforms which could have been quietly accelerated - 5th April 2011
 * a merger with the Tories will save most Liberal Democrat MPs'' - The forthcoming Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election spells danger for Nick Clegg's party in more ways than one - 3rd January 2011
 * keep your seat, stick to your principles'' - The Commons is full of Thatcher’s children, with an eye on the next election. They will not be lobby fodder - 15th May 2010
 * hard to see what is Tory about the Tories'' - Cameron has become trapped in Labour’s snares. He must free himself to set a bold agenda. Caution will lead only to failure - 4th February 2010
 * They wish we all could be Californian: the new Tory plan - Fraser Nelson says that the Conservatives are taking their cue from the West Coast of America: the land of Google, Stanford University and venture capital. They want to rebuild Britain in California’s image: dynamic, high-tech, green and ‘family-friendly’ - 25th February 2009



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