Gordon Brown has already bellowed his instructions to the proles: no more wasting food. And while you're at it, none of that pesky overconsumption, either - we're going through hard times after all, and the huddled masses should be savouring every speck of chicken nugget and soggy oven chip… read more…

The Tories have accused Gordon Brown of bribing his Labour minions in order to get the results that he wanted on 42 days. The Guardian. G8 countries have been accused of being too slow in the race against climate change. WWF. Oil prices have reached yet another new high, this… read more…

Westmonster has to admit: we were a little cynical about the overall effectiveness of 2005's Live 8 concert. That is, until we heard the glorious news: that as soon as Razorlight had finished performing their top ten hit Golden Touch, literally every child in Africa awoke to find a… read more…

Looks like the higher orders have their own equivalent of the bloke who hides under the table during the pub brawl - emerging only after it's over - and then spends the rest of the evening boasting about his central role in the fighting: the politics teacher at Fettes College. Yep, Blair's former school has staged a… read more…