Say what you want about the ever-more-floundering Gordon Brown - i.e. that he's a liability to his party and should step down immediately before further damage is caused, something like that - chances are you wouldn't go as far as to speculate that he'd be beaten in an election… read more…

Train-based alcohol ban aside, Boris Johnson has been keeping a remarkably low profile since his installation as Mayor of London a few weeks back. Theories have run rampant around the Westmonster office as to what he's been up to, and we managed to come up with two relatively convincing… read more…

Does your life seem emptier and without sparkle now that the London Mayoral Election is officially dead and buried? Do you you miss the palpable tension that washed over us all like some kind of stupefying tsunami? Or the fact that you can no longer tune in to riveting idiosyncrasies… read more…

First things first: Westmonster has long held reservations about London Mayor Boris Johnson's banning of alcohol on public transport (effective today), simply because we're not sure what it's going to achieve. The majority of normal people who enjoy a cheeky train-drink on route to a pub or club are… read more…

Quick note to any lefties out there who are a little dismayed with Boris Johnson's poll lead: imagine how your Italian counterparts must feel. Not only did the nation decide to re-elect notorious right-winger Silvio Berlusconi this month - a move which provoked much international forehead-slapping - but now… read more…