The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, will announce plans today that give police the power to openly harass antisocial youth by hounding them at their homes, following them about, and also filming them in the streets. It certainly sounds a little bit drastic, but is part of the government's plans to… read more…

Just like you wolfing through a big tube of Pringles or enduring a marathon thumb-twiddling session on Grand Theft Auto 4, it seems that fate has found a new hobby with which to amuse itself. The morish habit in question? Delivering body blows to PM Gordon Brown. Just how… read more…

If there's one thing that Gordon Brown must hate right now - other than the grinning spectre of Tony Blair swirling around his bed, laughing like a nightmarish Dickensian omen - it's polls and reports. Actually, that's two things. But you know what we mean. Every time a new… read more…

It's been a busy day for political numbers: Over at The Guardian they have a report on the latest opinion poll statistics concerning the London Mayoral Election. Surprisingly for some, perhaps most of all Ken Livingstone, they show that London's favourite anarchist has managed to overtake Boris Johnson and creep… read more…