Bored of watching TV? Fed up of spending those long and dreary weekends doing nothing more than sipping tea in the garden or comparing mortgage rates with the neighbours? Do you feel that your life lacks any sense of purpose or meaning? That middle-age has already caught up with you?… read more…

Boulton & Co. reports on a possible climbdown on the part of the Government on the extension of 28-day detention. This is because the Home Office realised that Satan would be going to work in a snow plough before that one was nodded through on the quiet by Parliament the Gord heads… read more…

BONG! As part of its mission to establish a record for the largest number of emergency statements in the shortest amount of time (three in the past week, by our reckoning), the Government reveals that Her Maj's Revenue and Customs lost the records of 25 million individuals in the, er,… read more…

BONG! Trouble up t'whips' office it would appear, as the Gord is warned he faces a Parliamentary battle over the proposed increase in the maximum limit on detention. BONG! Theo Blackwell's found Ken's new site, and examines Bojo's recent campaigning activities. BONG! What makes you blind? The Duchess of York has warned… read more…

BONG! In the debate on the Queen's Speech today, attention was turned to (amongst other things) new-build housing. The Tories were all: what do we want? Lots of new housing! Where do we want it? Nowhere near my million pound pad thank you very much! BONG! The inter-party slapping over… read more…

BONG! Guido on Lord Hoyle's dodgy little earner. All together now: Labour sleaze! Sotto voce: and the Tories don't come out of it unscathed either. BONG! Stop the presses! As if the news that Paddy Ashdown (who's got to the stage that all politicians reach eventually: he's started believing his own… read more…

The debate's underway in the blogosphere over the Gould report into Scottish elections released yesterday. Iain Dale: "Douglas Alexander has Blood On His Hands and should resign!" Kezia Dugdale, however, has not only read the report but appears to be a bit of an expert in these matters agrees that… read more…