A cautionary tale about election day

On this election day, as well as encouraging those in the UK to vote Conservative, in Northern Ireland to vote Conservative and Unionist and encouraging people in Ireland to wait until tomorrow, I am moved by the lovely and fragrant @sharonashambles on twitter to tell...

Karma-geddon for Brown

Despite a common misconception, karma is not simply ‘you get what you give’.  We have conditioned ourselves to believe that the sum of our inputs, the sum of our goodness, can be reflected back on us in some future life.  Some people credit karma with...

Three men in a boat (up a creek without a paddle)

With apologies to Jerome K Jerome and anyone who loves the book as much as I do. As told to the blogger by David Cameron. THERE were four of us – Gordon, and Nick Clegg, and myself, and the Speaker of the House. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking...
Nick Clegg strong again on MP infringements

Nick Clegg strong again on MP infringements

Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats (the UK’s third party) today issued a call for all MPs to be shot once in the leg, in order to prevent them from considering ever doing anything bad ever again. “The time has come to be tough to these...