The 2012 London Olympics are getting closer with every day! Woo-hoo! Aren't you excited about seeing a bunch of overpaid school-sports-day throwbacks take part in a series of arbitrary tasks which will then determine who gets to stand on a podium with a shiny medal and smile a bit,… read more…

Sometimes apologising can be the hardest thing to do. Especially if you're a politician - it's traditionally seen as a sign of weakness akin to painting a target on your forehead, handing a crossbow to your opponents and giving them a cheeky wink and a thumbs-up. Yet there are… read more…

We've all had to have that awkward conversation with the bank manager sometimes. You know the sort - he shuffles his papers, looks at you from over his spectacles and asks you if it's really necessary to extend your overdraft so that you can take a course of helicopter-flying… read more…

We've all been in the same mildly frustrating situation - you know that you have a ten pound note on your person somewhere, you know it, and yet you can't remember which pocket it's in, and the barmaid is expecting you to pay for your drinks any second now,… read more…

Anyone keeping an eye on the financial news will be aware that - in the wake of the ever-increasing grip of the Credit Crunch - the International Monetary Fund has sheepishly admitted that they should maybe have paid heed to the warning signs a tiny bit earlier. The Conservatives,… read more…

Now that the Credit Crunch is officially asserting its presence, it's highly likely that every single one of you reading this will end the year jobless, homeless, riddled with disease and surviving solely by drinking collected acidic rainwater from a discarded can of Dr. Pepper. Which ironically will taste… read more…

We've already witnessed a lot of controversy over MP's spending and allowances these last few months, and - with the introduction of a Freedom Of Information order - it looks like we're going to be seeing a lot more. Details are seeping out further, and allowing the public a… read more…

No-one likes having their dirty laundry aired in public. Infact, no-one likes having their laundry aired in public full stop, be it clean or otherwise. Try telling the national press that those Dangermouse underpants were simply an 'ironic' gift from a girlfriend. Go on. We dare you. Some people,… read more…

The cost of living in Britain is become unbearable. Sure, life may be just rosy if you're a TV executive getting paid thirty million pounds per second to come up with ideas like The Little Girl With Seven Chins or Stalinist Cannibal Holiday Cruise, but what about life for… read more…

When Westmonster heard that Tory leader David Cameron had plans to make the economy 'dynamic', we felt a little shiver run down our spine. 'Dynamic'? What does that mean exactly? Is this some attempt to make the world of finance more exciting to that all-important yoof market, an idea roughly… read more…