Brooks Newmark, at The Blogs

Feb 2, 2017, 10:14 PM

Time to end the blight of rough sleeping in the UK

The recent figures released by Government on rough sleeping are quite stark. Rough sleeping went up by 16% over the past year to 4,134 people. Since 2010 recorded rough sleeping has gone up over 100% from 1,768 to 4,134. I suspect that is an under...

Nov 16, 2016, 12:22 PM

Bringing Balkan Jews together in Montenegro

I recently attended the Mahar Conference in Montenegro. What is Mahar and why Montenegro? Mahar is a transliteration of the Hebrew word “Tomorrow” and was the name given to a conference between the Jewish communities in south east Europe four years ago. As the Jewish...

Oct 17, 2016, 6:08 PM

The Home Secretary’s speech and diminishing the Holocaust

I am not sure who I am offended by more: James O’Brien LBC’s resident shock jock or Steve Hilton former Cameron Svengali. Certainly not Amber Rudd the Home Secretary. I think I will settle on Hilton for his comment that Ministers may as well announce...

About Me

Brooks Newmark was MP for Braintree (2005-15) and Minister for Civil Society. Currently he is a Research Associate in the Politics Department at St Antony's College Oxford.