Having finally realised that it has milked its dossier on MPs' expenses to a state beyond death, the Daily Telegraph has come up with a new wheeze that it hopes will guarantee readers buy the paper on a long-running but daily basis to find the latest revelations: World War II. Today's paper promises...
I happen to like Boris Johnson. I think he provides a bit of much-needed colour to the political scene, and he seems better at his job than that annoying nasal Red Ken but I don't live in London so what do I know. But is he worth £250k for a weekly column in the Daily Telegraph? Yes - if they are...
The headmaster of Repton School, a minor public school in Derbyshire built for the sons of businessmen from the Midlands, thinks that Big Brother 'distorts reality for children', according to today's Daily Telegraph . What's more, he opines that reality television as a genre leaves the...
All credit to the DailyTelegraph for blowing the gaffe on MPs' expenses but I'm getting a bit bored of reading that our political class is corrupt - I think the point has been hammered home enough now and I expect that the uplift in sales that it enjoyed will begin to tail off. So when normal...
So the Lib Dems use their expenses on biscuits and trouser presses, the Tories on chandeliers and moats and Labour on loo seats and damp rot. While the revelations in The Daily Telegraph have caused acute ambarrassment to all MPs, they also go to prove that most political stereotypes are in fact correct...
Full marks to the Daily Telegraph for exposing the absurd expenses claims from MPs of which Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy and our very own beloved Culture Secretary Andy Burnham have surely come up with the most ridiculous. Murphy claimed 3k for a new plumbing system because the water from his old boiler...
Victory! There's something particularly sweet when the House of Commons defies the will of the Government (probably because it's such a rare occurrence) and genuinely Does The Right Thing, so the vote on the Gurkhas yesterday was electric. I realise that I've been a little unfair - unlikely...
Happy St George's Day. According to today's Daily Telegraph, Brown's Scottish Raj is spending just £116 to mark St George's Day. They are buying a flag. This contrasts with the £600,000 they spent to mark the day of their own patron saint. While not surprised with the Government's...
Given some of the violent scenes today, it's odd that the BBC has excitedly reported that the demonstrations have ‘the atmosphere of the Glastonbury festival'. Aside from the fact that it's probably easier to get drugs in the City of London today and that Moby isn't playing, I thought...
Should we be worried that the Home Office plans to keep details of the contacts and details of users of social networking sites as part of its plan to store records of all phone calls, emails and websites visited, ostensibly in the name of ‘national security'? Aside from the issue of civil liberty...
