The suits in Westminster, Whitehall to be precise, look like they've finally tapped into the well of secret knowledge that separates the clued-in from mere mortals. In the fight against youth knife crime it seems that it may finally have dawned upon campaigners that young Britons don't acquire information from… read more…

To the delight of buck-toothed youngsters throughout the nation, a Government-backed report has claimed that social networking websites such as Facebook and Bebo should be used in school classrooms to boost pupils' literacy skills. Conducted by Childnet, an organisation that promotes Internet safety, the report officially stated that, "young people… 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…

We love this: Iain Dale claims Gordon Brown has sent him four separate friend requests on Facebook. So, assuming El Gordo doesn't use Facebook himself, someone must be doing it for him. So why would that someone assume Iain Dale would ever accept a request from El Gordo? And why… read more…

Boulton & Co. reports on a possible climbdown on the part of the Government on the extension of 28-day detention. This is because the Home Office realised that Satan would be going to work in a snow plough before that one was nodded through on the quiet by Parliament the Gord heads… read more…

Alex Hilton (of Recess Monkey fame) has apologised to Nadine Dorries MP for committing crimes against Facebook. Ministry of Truth has the back story. UPDATE: Apologies all, Alex has just pointed out that he apologised to Dorries' daughter rather than her.… read more…

Poor Jacqui Smith's getting a bit of a drubbing in the papers this morning over the latest immigration scandal to hit the Home Office. The Telegraph takes her to task for failing to station pitchfork-wielding mobs on the white cliffs of Dover, the Independent takes a broad look at… read more…

Why oh why can't the Liberals keep Vince Cable as leader? Such is the lament from Liberal Democrat blogger Paul Walter, but the charms of the Vincemeister are not limited to the narrow sphere of the blogosphere alone. Oh no. We'd like to draw readers' attention to this Facebook group… read more…

Making up your mind is a difficult call for Liberal Democrat members at the best of times but when asked to choose between Nicky (doesn't like the bomb very much) and Huhne (doesn't like the bomb very much at all), the situation is has just unbearable for some. That's probably… read more…

It's a Friday afternoon, neither the Lords nor the Commons are sitting, so...let's all mince around on Facebook! Woohoo! And let's link it tangentially to politics. Audience: Boooo! Anyway, the fastest growing Facebook groups are those that are linked in with the American Presidential race, with the groups One Million Strong… read more…

BONG! In the wake of the Gord signing up to the EU Treaty, opinion on the blogosphere is divided. Grimmer up North is irritated that the promise of a referendum was a manifesto promise as opposed to an actual commitment, whilst Mike Ion reckons not. BONG! The Norfolk Blogger on the ITV phone-in scandal. We… read more…

The Nick Clegg is more of a hottie than David Cameron any day Facebook group currently stands at 38 members. Curiously 20 of them are male.… read more…

BONG! Iain Dale calls the position of Chief Knife Wielder for Vince Cable, says Simon Hughes picked the knife up, and nominates Chucky to replace him. Westmonster assumes Mr. Dale's motives for putting Kennedy forward are 99 44/100 per cent pure. BONG! Are you an ambitious young berk? Do you… read more…

BONG! Much drama over at Iain Dale's where unconfirmed rumours are flying that tomorrow's poll for the Guardian puts the Tories ahead by three points. UK Polling Report... erm... reports that Dale's numbers were based on interim results and the final numbers will reflect a small Labour lead. More polls filtering in… read more…

In ye olden days the proverbial nutter would spend his time on street corners, shouting about the injustice of not being able to take his camel on the bus, whilst the world largely ignored him. No more. Now he can message the entire Facebook group ("Demand Bus Passes for Camels!")… read more…

Westmonster provided live coverage of David Cameron's speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool. The transcript appears below. Westmonster would especially like to note that she called the Jimmy Cliff song more than 3 minutes before it came over the loudspeakers, and wasn't just reporting it had already happened.… read more…