Liberty leader Shami Chakribarti has excelled herself in terms of self-righteousness by accusing Culture Secretary Andy Burnham of launching a smear campaign against her. Burnham made a couple of vaguely-sarcastic, fairly ill-advised remarks concerning the relationship between Chakribatri and MP David Davis - previously political polar opposites who had… read more…

The Boy David is to state the obvious on rape later today - namely that many rapists go unpunished, and too many men feel that they have some sort of divine right to access lady-parts whenever they fancy it. Obvious it may be, but a big thumbs up to Davy for planning… read more…

Well done Her Majesty! Didn't she read the list of legislation beautifully? Amongst everything else there will be legislation on the EU Reform Treaty, a Bill to keep da yoof in education, various stuff on climate change, reforms of the criminal justice system, a new Homes and Communities Agency is… 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…

BONG! Was it only a matter of time before young Jedi George Osbourne got the jitters about the Cameroon agenda and made moves towards the dark side of the Force? Fraser Nelson's Spectator article tomorrow will be well worth a read. In the meantime there's more on the Ben Brogan… read more…