If there's one thing that Westmonster really needed at primary school - apart from Thatcher to bring the free milk back and for Percy Jackson from Year 3 to stop stealing our Ghostbusters Panini stickers - it was for a kindly teacher to take us to one side and… read more…

Yeah, yeah - you can talk all you want about 'policies' and 'action' and 'intelligent reasoned handling of sensitive issues', but the government sure are a bunch of smart cookies. They know that you don't actually want any of that. They know that what you really, really want to do… read more…

Two types of political commercial this morning: 1. El Gordo promoting the UK Politics channel on the American-owned YouTube. It's a classic 10 Downing Street-era Brown perfomance - a weird combination of fake smiles interspersed with terrifying gloom. And the sound of a door slamming somewhere. Google, the owner of… read more…