Mrs D taps daily into a rich seam of interweb humour, and the absolute avalanche of really funny Harry&Meghan stuff is often side-splitt...

Things are getting quite ugly for Putin - who faces "elections" shortly - and Russia generally.  High on his list of irritants is ...

Well.  Hard to believe, but this blog has been going for 20 years .  Check the listings in the sidebar - there it all is.  5,431 posts - and...

Grommit's garden.  Galleon in background Mrs Drew & I have just visited a truly superb exhibition at Young V&A* in Bethnal Gre...

 ... against fierce local opposition - and in the teeth of, yes, housing as potentially being an alternative use for the site.  It's the...

There's a light mood in  Schloss Drew this weekend.   The Jason Arday affair is possibly even funnier than Keir Starmer 'resigning...

Back in April I mused that we'd perhaps already seen Peak Reform .  Things haven't gone at all well for them since the May local ele...

Being cynical, what it probably means is - more vague feelgood stuff.  But assuming the 'details' we've been given are the bare ...

They're tugging at the heartstrings, scraping the barrel, lighting the gaslights and pulling out all the stops  -  Stop Burnham Approvin...

The green-left has long hankered after a 'wealth tax', using Gary Lineker as their human face / shield.  Gary Stevenson - a rum cove...

Yesterday furnished us with a very significant clue. In a post several weeks ago I described the then by-election candidate's demeanour ...

So Mili neither gets the Treasury, nor keeps his manic mission at energy.  Safely dispatched to places over the horizon.  (What must David M...

Well, then: is it to be: Thanks, Ed, but you're not needed now Ed, I need you to to stay where you are, it's great job you're do...

Wind the clock back to 2022 and Russia has the biggest oil and gas infrastructure in the world: the country is sometimes referred to sarcast...

So: seeing himself increasingly caught up in a thorny thicket of unwanted and very awkward controversy, Nigel Farage has Taken The Initiativ...

This post will come replete with major caveats in due course, but let's start with the headline.  Vladimir Putin is bluffing like crazy ...

 ... and it didn't end well. "Manchesterism" - not to be confused with Manchester Liberalism - is intended to mean something e...

And so it came to pass.  Suddenly, all the fight went out of him. " I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party ... and I accept ...

Well the tub of lard** lasted a lot longer than the lettuce, but now Roy Hattersley's gone . Over the years he's come to our attenti...

With the passing of David Hockney we have lost something precious: a master of his work.  I tend to think there are three pre-requisites for...