Three opposing sides of a news-flavoured triangle. GOOD Hazel Blears is on a crusade to rejuvenate local politics and strengthen communities. BAD According to Iain Dale, ITV has axed their last political show and have no plans to replace it. Still - there's always room for another series of… read more…

Snotty media-types throughout the country are said to be flying into a series of involuntary paroxysms today. As a result, our contacts at the BBC have reported the introduction of an 'elevator rule' which stipulates that there is to be no more than one person at a time in all… read more…

Rory Bremner's new Spitting Image update, Headcases starts a week on Sunday, and it will be interesting to see what, if any, impact it has on politics. Spitting Image always seemed to loom large in the 1980s and early 1990s, but did it change anything? Judging by the Headcases page… read more…

Has Labour finally turned its back on Rupert Murdoch? It looks that way with this morning's announcement that BSkyB has been told to reduce its share in ITV to 7.5% by John Hutton. The sale is expected to end up costing Sky £250 million, thanks to the decline in ITV's… read more…

Had enough of NewsKnight? Westmonster is ecstatic to report that, just in time for the presidential primary elections to kick off, U.S. television network Comedy Central has announced the return of fake-news funny men Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to the airwaves, from 7th January. Both stars' programmes had been… read more…

BONG! This is as close as as politics gets to an episode of Hollyoaks: fomer Uzbekistan ambassador Craig Murray said some nasty things about the Uzbek bloke who's trying to buy Arsenal FC (bear with me here) who gets his lawyers to, er, take out Mr Murray's website, and, in… read more…