So yesterday was a surprise to us. We thought an esoteric post about blog stats would bore the pants off everyone, but in fact it turned out to be one of our most popular posts ever*. Go figure. So, having demonstrated that the two grandfathers of UK blogging may have… read more…

Sky's annual list of the most fanciable MPs is an shallow, empty waste of time, of course. So we reprint it here: 1. (-) Jeremy Hunt, 41, Conservative, Surrey South West 2. (1) Julie Kirkbride, 47, Conservative, Bromsgrove 3. (-) Julia Goldsworthy, 29, Lib Dem, Falmouth and Cambourne 4. (-)… read more…

For those of you who have more interesting, wait, check that - for those of you who have lives and don't spend your Saturdays rifling through TheyWorkForYou, intriguing news reaches us via their most recent upload of the Register of Members' Interests, released this week. From Cameron's entry: 20 October 2007, I… read more…

Last week Inspector Watson of the Yard asked a couple of questions of a firm called Flying Lion, which was taken up by various politics nerds with no life such as Westmonster enterprising individuals in the search of the truth. Well, David Hencke of the Guardian has picked up on… read more…

Intriguing gossip reaches the Westmonster lugholes regarding last night's "most influential people in local government event," hosted by the Local Government Chronicle at County Hall. In attendance were the brightest of the local government glitterati, although curiously the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government the Right… read more…

Westmonster hears that the Govester's speech on how Brown is a bally rotter has produced an unexpected backlash. In an apparently innocuous if hi-LAR-ious aside, Gove said of the Gord's succession: Whether it's been Neville Chamberlain after Baldwin, Eden after Churchill or Bush senior after Reagan, the successor model has never… read more…

Following on from Westmonster's post yesterday on Flying Lion and its apparent desire to jet members of the Conservative front bench around the world in the luxury to which they are doubtless entitled, Political Penguin has picked up the baton and done some top-quality sleuthing. Yesterday we were unsure as to… read more…

While Iain Dale is otherwise engaged in polishing the halo of St Michael of Ashcroft, may I direct readers to this interesting story... Earlier in the week Tom Watson asked what was known about a company called Flying Lion, which appears to be registered in Bermuda, and which seems to have a… read more…

Much comment - in the absence of anything else going on before 2.30pm - on the recent Blairite "challenge" to the Gord, which seems to have been led by Lord Falconer, ably brought up in the rear by Stephen Byers, Charles Clarke, and repeat political Lazarus Alan Milburn. Milburn, for those… read more…

Who is the mysterious MP who thinks that bag-carriers should know their place? On yesterday's edition of Today in Parliament, a male voice can clearly be heard disparaging staffers who are exercised about Queuegate, following a statement of solidarity from Brother Harriet in Leaders' Questions. Listen to TIP here; the… read more…