Article: Baffling notion ; Patrick Nicholls sometimes writes some insightful material in his column, but his thoughts on UKIP seem too much like "jam tomorrow" in respect of potential action on Britain's position in the EU by the Conservative Party.

Article: Pinning my hopes on old labour and UKIP ; Patrick ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  April 21, 2009 ;     474 words ...Patrick Nicholls (April 2) condemns UKIP for splitting the Eurosceptic vote. But the Conservative Party cannot deliver the freedoms many Britons crave because it got us into this mess in the first place. All it can do is to appear ...

Article: Patrick Nicholls: Let people care for themselves... ...
Yorkshire Post;  October 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of all, it is policy based on morality in territory which even this Labour Prime Minister would never dare to colonise. Suddenly, politics becomes interesting again. Patrick Nicholls is a former vice-chairman of the Conservative Party.

Article: Only one party has sceptic principles ; Patrick ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  April 14, 2009 ;     490 words ...Patrick Nicholls says (WMN, April 3) "UKIP's presence in the European Parliament is essentially fraudulent". How dare he? It is the Conservative Party who continue to behave fraudulently: they pretend to be eurosceptic ...

Article: No case against women bishops ; It is said that politics and ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  July 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... religion don't mix. I don't agree but an article by Patrick Nicholls (July 10) gives good cause for saying so. Mr Nicholls ... because the Roman Catholic Church has not - and gender. Patrick Nicholls relies on the latter. It seems to me as unsustainable ...

Article: Where is Patrick Nicholls?
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  November 6, 2007 ;     347 words ... ... the Western Morning News and one columnist in particular. I loved and really enjoyed the wit, pragmatism and insight of Patrick Nicholls that only his experience could bring - not to mention his ability to make relatively dry politics seem interesting and ...

Article: No third term for politicians ; Patrick Nicholls' ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 23, 2008 ;     607 words ...Patrick Nicholls' speculation that the motive behind Alistair Darling's recent gloomy economic prospectus was to prevent Gordon Brown from sacking ...

Article: Brown reveals his ignorance of law ; Patrick ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  December 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Patrick Nicholls' comparison (December 4) between Gordon Brown and Robert Mugabe, suggesting that they differ only in the degree by which each ...