It does what the headline says. GOOD Knife crime may not quite be the 'epidemic' many are claiming, says Sunny Hundal at The Guardian. BAD The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon reckons that poor people are pretty much screwed. MAD A couple of days old now, but so genuinely insane we… read more…

Having looked at this entertaining poll over at Iain Dale's diary - the Cleggover sex survey, in tribute to bumbling lothario Nick Clegg - Westmonster can't help but wonder: why exactly would 30 per cent of BNP members be virgins? What is it about them that fails to attract… read more…

Fraser Nelson's got an interesting interview with Alex Salmond (Scotland's answer to Judge John Deed - he's a maverick, doncha know) in this week's Spectator. Inter alia, it's revealed that Alex quite wants the Tories to win the next election as there's more chance of the SNP winning a referendum on independence… read more…

Is being leader of the Opposition easy, we were asking last night in the pub? Yeah, we all know that being an MP is bloody hard work if you do it properly, and the higher you get, the more demands there are on you. So how has Davy Cameron made… 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…

We can only assume that the Gord actually wants to induce apoplexy in Henry Porter and the trendy-lefty chatterati with this announcement on his new security measures. Westmonster hopes the Government whips' office has got a selection of hard hats, a vat of whiskey, and their best pleading voices… read more…

BONG! An article in the Financial Times - originally flagged up by Ben Brogan - has been flying around the blogosphere. To say it won't make comfortable reading in the Brown Bunker is putting it mildly. BONG! It's not been a good day to be the Gord. Just when you… read more…

BONG! The LibDem leadership contest is officially ON! Nominations closed at 4pm today and the unseemly bitchslapping between the only two candidates commenced almost immediately. Nicky Clegg gave an interview to the Telegraph outlining how Chris Huhne is a receding hairline away from being exactly like David Cameron, whilst Huhne contended that his advanced… read more…

BONG! Martin Kettle with an article On Liberty. BONG! The SNP blame everything on Westminster at their annual conference, but don't spend time investigating their imminent financial collapse - look over here at this nice new shiny gimmick policy proposal! BONG! Keith Richards campaigns in Chichester over the provision of… read more…

Because political discourse can never have too many Simpsons analogies, allow Westmonster to draw her readers' attentions to this episode where Homer decides to run for the position of Sanitation Commissioner. He wins a landslide, under the slogan "Can't Someone Else Do It?" and a manifesto commitment that his garbage men will… read more…

Those troubled by the recent allegations by the Normster on the subject of the death of David Kelly can at least rest assured that the authoritarian hand of the Government wasn't behind the scientist's death: according to the Gould report they can't even organise a piss-up in a brewery an election in… read more…

Here we go again: file this one under "boring but important," folks. With the news that the comrades are eleven points ahead (according to a recent YouGov poll) the speculation about an autumn election points more to probability than possibility. It seems to be accepted wisdom that the Gord… read more…