Three opposing sides of a news-flavoured triangle. GOOD Hazel Blears is on a crusade to rejuvenate local politics and strengthen communities. BAD According to Iain Dale, ITV has axed their last political show and have no plans to replace it. Still - there's always room for another series of… read more…

Say what you want about the ever-more-floundering Gordon Brown - i.e. that he's a liability to his party and should step down immediately before further damage is caused, something like that - chances are you wouldn't go as far as to speculate that he'd be beaten in an election… read more…

Forget Hillary Clinton's 3am phone call campaign - the PM has delivered an entirely new slant on things. See, in Hillary's world, the person prodding those number digits early in the morning would be yourself, hoping to get directly through to the ever-helpful Mrs. C. Gordon Brown has turned… read more…