Plans for a new policing 'Green Paper' were unveiled today. Lauded by Gordon Brown for the amount of bureaucracy that they will cut down on, it is expected that the move will result in the boys in blue spending more time patrolling our streets and less time messing around with… read more…

Back in 1969 a seminal hip hop group called The Last Poets released Whitey On The Moon. It was a reactionary piece that expressed the divisive nature of a society in which the American black man was still worrying about paying the rent, putting food on the table, or generally… read more…

David Cameron has declared that he'd like to toughen up the UK's laws on knife crime. During an interview for the Sun, the Conservative leader stated that he believes anybody who is caught carrying a knife without lawful reason should automatically be jailed. Labour are also reported to be calling… read more…

Tony Blair has defended Gordon Brown's perceived ineptitude by stating that we were living in a 'tough time' for all world leaders in which members of the public were seeking domestic solutions to global problems, such as rising fuel and food prices. "The problems of many political leaders are driven… read more…

We should rue the pigs for, of all the animals, it is they whose name is most often taken in vain. Perhaps there is a portly woman walking down the street, for example, with her greasy fingers lovingly wrapped around a Cornish pasty. Or an overbearing male chauvinist pinching the… read more…

In our age of product personalisation, social network self-promotion , and extreme fashion fastidiousness, it seems that the brainiacs in charge of the Labour Party's crime fighting division have finally managed to attune themselves with the collective conciousness of the UK's young offenders. Announced this morning, the Government's new plans… read more…

In the modern British lexicon it seems that few words are dirtier or more likely to cause an uproar than the word patriot. Long gone is the proud Englishman professing his love of Her Majesty The Queen and propagating the virtues of his nation, but today even less extreme professions… read more…

Tree-huggers and namby-pamby types are getting even more excitable than usual today after a government report suggested that the future of UK power is to be based on environmentally friendly microgeneration systems. Released earlier this afternoon, the Department for Business, Energy and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) report details that solar panels,… read more…

This time last week Westmonster claimed that the times were a-changin' and it appears that we're not the only ones who think so: After the mauling that his party inflicted on Labour yesterday David Cameron has stated in his usual buttery tones that the results stand as a 'big moment'… read more…