MPs expenses

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation – Lord Halifax, 1750 It is difficult…

The News International scandal is just the tip of the iceberg of unelected oligarchies and corporate power in Britain’s democracy, according to…

I have been back in the UK for eight days and so far I have been unable to listen to any soundbite…

They say everyone has 20:20 hindsight, but with each new report that is released it becomes clear that the only sensible response…

  The first scalp of the new government was claimed by the media over the weekend and, surprising all those who were…

Just when I thought all the residual anger I could muster had been squeezed from the MPs expenses scandal, along came some…

  Quote from a ‘senior source’ talking about the latest expenses scandal: We were led up the garden path by Gordon. I…

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be -Kurt Vonnegut Having trounced the…

I have been having a lot of fun in recent weeks taking the mickey out of the hipper inhabitants of my neighbourhood. …

When this blog was named (by a very talented writer, if a slacker when it comes to updates) and I was looking…