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Jack Straw is always right, he is elected

In an article written for The Guardian, Jack Straw – Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary and former Home and Foreign secretary and much more – claims that talk of the UK becoming a police state is...

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Tom Harris, MP. He’s no John Redwood.

Tom Harris is the Labour MP for Glasgow South. But he’s not just an MP, he also has a blog and it’s not just about politics: If you believe that politicians take themselves too seriously, you might...

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Heathrow protesters reach new low

Environmentalists protesting against a third runway at Heathrow – really, this backwards little airport only has two runways – reached a new low today as they threw green custard in Business Secretary...

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Parliament needs some cleaning (supplies)

You have to believe me when I say that I tried. I tried. God knows I tried. I tried so hard to stay away from the “scandal” that has been raging in the UK for the past few days around MPs’ expense...

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He’s to die for

Some people look back fondly on Tony Blair as the prime minister who presided over ten years of economic growth. For the younger readers, economic growth is something that used to happen in the 90s....

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Trust me, I’ve been vetted

The Vetting and Barring Scheme is a new scheme by which people who will be working with children will have to be registered in a central database, to avoid the possibility of exposing The Children to...

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