The talk on the blogs is all about Douglas Alexander apparently "bottling" Question Time tonight for "family reasons," to the amusement of Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes. Personally, Westmonster thinks they're too harsh on Mr Alexander; if she had to stay sober on a Thursday night in order to address… read more…

Damp squib of the day: Miliband the Younger's Europe speech. Anybody else finding the tabloid habit of salaciously referring to a suspect in the Meredith Kercher murder as "Foxy Knoxy" - as if she's an actress in a porn movie - a little bizarre? Westmonster feels that this obsession with the… read more…

The SNP yesterday celebrated their first budget by reneging on most of the promises that put them in the position of power which entitles them to make it. The jibbing of the students over the non-wipeout of their debt was a particularly classy move ("uhhh, it might be a bit… 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…

Sometimes when engaging in her morning Google Reader ritual, Westmonster stumbles across an article so predictable, she is left to moan "I could have written that myself!" We don't mean the weekly "ohmigod, like, this Facebook thingy is, like, sooooooo spaced out!" offerings by the generic Fruity Blonde One in the… read more…

Oooh, he's not going to like this much! On last night's Question Time Harriet Harman announced that she disapproved of the way Prime Ministers "simply choose and swish up to Buckingham Palace and get the Queen to decide on a general election." Nice timing, Harriet. One can only assume that… read more…

Want to know what hell looks like? A sneak preview can be seen tonight on BBC1 at 10.35pm when the Beeb's favourite bumbler chairs Question Time featuring Harriet Harman, Caroline Spelman, Simon Hughes, and former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie. Stabbing yourself repeatedly in the eye whilst members of the audience… read more…

BONG! Louise Bagshawe (pictured. The one on the left, people) had an attempt at wit earlier that has been treated to a blast of icy air over at Chris Paul. BONG! A Comment Central piece on Barack Obama's attempt to get hip with the kidz. Let it be written… read more…