William Hague doesn't have a blog, but John Redwood does. So it's interesting that Redwood hasn't seen fit to comment on a recent revolts.co.uk paper which points out that both he and Hague voted against a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty in 1993. Redwood's posted recently in praise of the… read more…

Simon Heffer's sure in a huff. In today's Telegraph, Heffer points the finger squarely at David Cameron and George Osborne for failing to bury Labour in light of Northern Rock, and months of "sleaze, failure, and prevarication" from the government: "Being an opposition is not just about pointing the finger.… read more…

Remember all the John Redwood Vulcan gags back in the mid-1990s? They accompanied the last days of John Major's administration, and they represented a moment when the British press finally lost its last vestiges of respect for the governing fraternity, egged on by a strengthening Opposition that saw a useful… read more…

We were going to write a long, thoughtful post on government IT, bringing in our own experiences from the land of private technology and web media, and it was going to be really good. But then bloody Dizzy Thinks wrote it instead. His point is this: until government IT is… read more…

Today's the day the LibDems announce their leader! Acting leader Vince Cable (of "I'm off to watch Strictly Come Dancing" fame) will be making the announcement this afternoon. "Cameron-lite" (shudder) Clegg is slightly ahead, according to polls and bookies, and he's already got some reshuffling plans. This article in particular… read more…

BONG! As the members start casting their votes, John Redwood discovers something shocking: clear, er, yellow water between the two Lib Dem leadership contenders. Well, who'da thunk it? BONG! Diskgate continues, as copies of emails from HMRC are released to the press hounds. The spin now is that it was budgetary… read more…

Whilst it looked like it was going to cause problems for a beleagured Gord and his depressed comrades in the wake of the non-election, Cameron and his party have merrily brought up the issue of a referendum on the EU Treaty with monotonous regularity. However, just as Brown's reluctance to… read more…

Yesterday's criminal justice Bill descended into the sort of medieval insania which only the thorny issue of "the gays" can inspire. The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill is a wide-ranging piece of legislation that seeks to reduce anti-social behaviour and give protection to householders defending their property against intruders. In… read more…