For those of you who thought - like us - that 24-hour licensing and "booze Britain" was the stuff of myth and the imagination of Daily Mail journos who want an excuse to print "disgusting" pictures of young ladies showing their underwear when drunk, who have nonetheless spent the last… read more…

Westmonster takes for granted that the press lunch with Harriet "I Am A Woman" Harman was a good one, and that el vino did flow. A descent of the alcoholic mist would certainly explain why one of the write-ups of the issues discussed at this banquet contained a picture of… read more…

The extensive refurbishment of researchers' bar the Sports and Social in Parliament has taken all summer, so naturally the only discernible changes are that the walls have been painted and somebody's replaced the lightbulb. However, not everyone's happy with the new lighter, brighter Sports. A colleague of Westmonster's has expressed… read more…