Want a further addition to the recent media furore about MPs' declared - and more importantly undeclared - expenses? Oh, go on, then. It turns out that now Michael Martin, speaker of the House Of Commons, is due to face a probe into his financial dealings. It's being carried… read more…

Okay. Sit down. Find something comforting to clutch onto. You might be shocked by this: Brightest poor children do worse than wealthy but dim classmates (!) Pick that jaw up off the floor, it's true. The Sutton Trust and the LSE have been thinking long and hard about this one.… read more…

Such was the excitement at the scheduled smackdown between Harriet Harman and Theresa May at the Business statement, that here at Westmonster Towers the Colleague consented to turn over from Jeremy Kyle to watch it. The hand of history was briefly on our shoulders. Frivolous frippery first: Theresa May has… read more…

Shocking news from ConservativeHome that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is ... a law-breaker! Why? Because her Department when she was Minister for Women appointed someone who turned out to be in possession of lady-bits rather than the required testicles. For shame. We demand an independent inquiry! In his article, Rob… read more…

Christ on a bike, Westmonster thought she was the only one embracing the hot flushes associated with onset of the menopause, but it seems as Francis Maude can't keep his mind off The Sex for a single second, even when discussing the breakdown of the party funding talks: We are disappointed… read more…

The fingering of the "Young Turks" over Chickengate continues apace, with this piece in the Coffeehouse and this rather apocalyptic offering from Rachel Sylvester in the Telegraph. Philip Webster had a good story in the Times yesterday about how Brown had never really been sold on the idea of an… read more…