It's another lugubrious day for the Prime Minister as new YouGov polls show that Labour's popularity is at its lowest since 1943. BBC. Further compounding Mr Brown's gloom is the news that consumer confidence has also sunk like the Titanic. The Guardian. It was revealed that UK life expectancy is… read more…

Faith and religion have become contentious issues of late, what with heavyweights such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens weighing in with their opinions on the apparent uselessness of the whole ideology. None of which stopped ex-PM Tony Blair converting to Catholicism last year (how's that 'forgiving sins' angle… read more…

BONG! Guido on Lord Hoyle's dodgy little earner. All together now: Labour sleaze! Sotto voce: and the Tories don't come out of it unscathed either. BONG! Stop the presses! As if the news that Paddy Ashdown (who's got to the stage that all politicians reach eventually: he's started believing his own… read more…