... aside from the fact that the man is utterly shameless and very desperate indeed, a dangerous combination. Few who pay any attention wha...

And so it came to pass that Boris the Populist, observing the extreme unpopularity of fracking in many northern parliamentary constituencies...

Rightly or wrongly I get the impression not so many C@W commenters are Party activists.  So here's a first-hand report for you Quite b...

Earlier in the week Mr Quango recounted his surprise at Miliband's ultimate failure to cross the line, given the long list of advantages...

One of my perennial themes here has been:  governments have their hands on the biggest levers  a government strategist with a bit of crea...

What colourful times we live in, eh?  A single day's headlines include: Russians limbering up for the expected assault on Mariupol   ...

The news from overseas is pretty awful:  but round my way the sun shining this morning, I'm feeling bouyant for a number of reasons - an...

Fracking has the hallmarks of an issue best left until after the election, like Blair studiously did with Nuclear before 2005.  Swampy doesn...

and cursèd be the name of Gordon Brown How often does a government carry through a manifesto promise ?  Well hats off to the Coalition, ...

So onto the box saunters Cameron and what is his headline New Year message ?  He's going to protect the state pension.  And the headline...

Balcombe Blame Rests Here Or rather, the coffin of his reputation as a strategist. Oh yes, it's been dead awhile, stone dead.  But...

Back in October 2008 Mr drew wrote a post about the possibility of a snap election by the beleaguered Brown Government. The wheels had a...

In this country one doesn't always expect mid-year weather to be quite as warm as this.  Nor does one expect the main opposition party t...