It's been a bad week for Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. He provoked sniggers, nicknames like 'Commons Casanova' and predictable outrage from the Daily Mail when he claimed in a GQ interview to have slept with around 30 women before meeting his wife (which, to be fair, sounds like… read more…

In pyjamas, on the sofa, with bacon sandwich. Who says politics can't be fun? So, this morning: Tim Ireland continues his inspired campaign for stats honest from our leading political bloggers. Any usage of Spinal Tap is fine with us. No question on the biggest news this morning: the revelation… read more…

Sometimes, as Cast once sang before everyone realised how boring they were, the best thing to do is 'just walk away.' Advice that Tory councillor David Meikle seems to be following rather too literally. He already has one distinction to his name - he's the sole Tory councillor in… read more…

Westmonster has been following all the hub-bub about the Gord's EU Treaty non-signing with a pile of salt on hand, what with all the hyperbole and bombast out there in the ether, just a grain isn't near enough to do the trick. At the risk of sounding like cheerleaders for… read more…

A week ago, a bunch of MPS submitted this Early Day Motion in recognition of the Beast of Bolsover himself, the mighty Dennis Skinner: That this House puts on record that the hon. Member for Bolsover has voted in an estimated 11,000 divisions since June 1970; notes that although other… read more…