Forget Hillary Clinton's 3am phone call campaign - the PM has delivered an entirely new slant on things. See, in Hillary's world, the person prodding those number digits early in the morning would be yourself, hoping to get directly through to the ever-helpful Mrs. C. Gordon Brown has turned… read more…

We've received an email alleging that Robert Wilson, current Tory MP for Reading East and Shadow Minister for Higher Education, actually stood as an SDP candidate in Redlands ward in Reading in the the late 1980s. Which would make his denial to have ever been in the same party as… read more…

Reviews of "what MPs are worth" are always going to be dangerous. Public sector pay is being clamped down upon, with a less-than-2% pay rise falling a tad short of some MPs' hoped-for 68%. It seems that 1 MP is equal to 1 GP or even 1 council chief. Fascinating… read more…

There are some things in political life for which the term "awesome horror" is too weak a description, and one of these is Greg Knight MP's online photo album. A huge hat tip to Dizzy who has obviously suffered much from watching Mr Knight's slide show, which is accompanied by… read more…

So, you are an MP and you've just got wind that two local hospitals are to be downgraded. What do you do? Well, you could meet with senior managers and local staff to discuss the issue, possibly even draw up a petition. You could talk to Ministers to make them… read more…

Bojo's selection as the Tories' candidate for the London mayoralty could prove to be more trouble than it's worth for the blond-haired bumbler. Not only has he, an ex-Eton posho, got to persuade the residents in London not to be fooled by the rocks he's got (he's still Boris from… read more…