Anyone else just depressed by this idiot Ainsworth?

I decided to treat myself to a couple of days’ annual leave after a wonderful visit to Rome, in order to recharge the batteries and be lazy.  It was blissful until my desire to be pretty well informed kicked in, and I popped on Sky News and BBC News 24 to be...

Electoral reform now?

With the succession to Gordon Brown already being planned, it was natural that someone would be the first with a radical suggestion in order to establish themselves as the thought leader in the New Labour pack. Make no bones about it, that’s what Alan...

Who Governs? May 2009

I started writing this in September, then someone stole the world economy.  So, almost a year since the last ‘Who Governs’, here’s the comprehensive story of what’s happening in the world: The Conservatives have an enormous lead in the polls,...