It seems to us the question that needs asking over the bugging farrago is this: why did the Metropolitan Police feel the need to listen in on conversations between Sadiq Khan and his constituent Babar Ahmad? Could it have had anything to do with the Met's concerns that Khan wanted… read more…

In an interview with the Today programme, Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair called himself "a bit of a limpet." Um… OK, whatever. Oh, he's talking about not resigning. Glad he took that seriously. Blair goes on to say: In terms of my commission, I think it is quite likely… read more…

Perhaps one of the less bright ideas of the Conservatives was the debate yesterday on party funding as it gave the hitherto ignored questions ("they're just trying to smear us, you know," CCHQ had previously claimed, flouncily, when the words "Lord" and "Ashcroft" were put to them in any sort… read more…

Parliament went into prorogation on Tuesday, but that didn't mean it wasn't a week packed full of uproar beginning on Monday with the visit of King Abdullah and concluding when the verdict of the de Menezes shooting came in on Thursday and the backlash against Ian Blair started in earnest.… read more…

The de Menezes verdict is the big story this morning. The Times examines the nineteen police failures that led to the shooting, the Telegraph looks at the "sickening" rumours the Met circulated, and Pickled Politics questions the logic of a fine as a punishment - a tab which will… read more…

BONG! The Metropolitan Police have been found guilty over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005. As appalling as the entire tragedy was, Westmonster nevertheless felt a twinge of nostalgia at a subject line in an email from Gallery News: "I won't resign, says Blair." Oh, and more than… read more…