We must show compassion to Gordon Brown

I never thought I’d say this, but I feel very sorry for Brown right now. Yes he’s a hoon, yes he’s a moron, yes he’s a dreadful Prime Minister, but imagine how that laughter would have felt. In our desire for red meat, we run something of a...

Gordon’s bizarre and dreadful expenses smile

I was always warned about people with bogus smiles as a child.  Whoever’s coaching Gordon Brown on how to look more human is clearly implicated in some elaborate practical joke; Brown smiles at precisely the wrong points throughout, and what is with the crazy...

We’re on our way…

The post-budget polls begin to surface, and it’s a pretty nasty result if you happen to be a one-eyed caledonian dilletante playing at being Prime Minister.  It’s probably a great day to be a prospective leader of the opposition such as Harriet Harperson...

NI MP expenses

UnionistLite comments on his excellent blog that one solution to the troughing of Northern Ireland MPs might be, in part at least, the end of multiple mandate. He’s right, of course; I would extend that one person one mandate principle all the way down to...

Dolly Draper reclassified

From The Guardian’s wonderful ‘Lost in Showbiz’ Marina Hyde If memory serves, he also took issue with the description of himself as someone who would be familiar to “readers whose specialist subject is minor New Labour character actors,...