Three categories, three news snippets. GOOD The dinosaur-ridden House Of Lords is due for a long overdue shake-up. BAD People everywhere are attacking Labour's speedy U-turn on their knife crime policy. MAD Brits abroad continue to make this nation proud.… read more…

Gordon Brown is to head to Jeddah in order to talk about rising oil prices. The Guardian. The Times. Tanker drivers are due to start a four day strike today. Panic buying of petrol is expected. The Guardian. The Telegraph. Ministers have announced plans to allow popular schools to take… read more…

Millions will vote today in the UK local elections. BBC. ePolitix. Londoners will also be voting in the Mayoral Election. ePolitix. It was revealed that a quarter of UK pupils will not get into their first choice primary school. The Times. The House of Lords has ruled that doctors trained… read more…

Pity the poor BBC. As if last year's scandal over the Blue Peter cat wasn't bad enough, they're now facing the very real chance that they may have to share their resources with rivals. The proposal has been submitted to the House Of Lords communication committee by Culture Secretary… read more…

"Who am I?" asks our old friend Nadine Dorries, in an (even for Nad) unbelieveably obtuse and rambling post on the Human Tissue & Embryology Bill, currently before the Lords. "Unfortunately, the argument and debate around the creation of human hybrids, cybrids, and fatherless children, flies over the top of… read more…

More from Jeffrey Archer land with his latest post, which seeks to exploit the birth of a royal child by reminding us of Jeffrey's own illustrious legislative past: The archaic law that suggests that every woman should be pushed aside in favour of a man when it comes to ascending… read more…

The Tories' crowing over the Morning of the Election that Wasn't was marred slightly by a poster seemingly committing the Tories to a retrospective referendum on the EU Treaty The story so far: Davy gave a "cast iron" guarantee to The People that he would offer them this and then swiftly… read more…