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  • Jack Straw: we’re sh*t and we know we are

    It turns out that rather than becoming the Minister for Europe, Geoff Hoon quietly died a couple of months ago.  I know this because in an extraordinary statement to the Commons today, his successor as Leader of the House Jack Straw channelled his spirit: “I also just say, and I’m glad this has been recognised…

  • Clean Up Westminster petition

    Noble though this cleanupwestminster petition is, it’s a shame they didn’t pay more attention to the grammar: We, the undersigned, believe that there should be no further appointments to the House of Lords until the current investigations have run their course; and the possibility of corruption has been removed from Westminster; and Parliament behaves with…

  • Not big or clever

    I’ve been having fun today with the new suite of House of Lords related functions launched by those programming elves behind Public Whip, TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem. Child that I am, I couldn’t resist looking up to see which Lord has used the most “f” words. It turns out that just one Lord has used this…

  • Liberty Central: yes, Lib-Con pact: no, no, no

    A week and a half ago I wrote a post entitled Why I’m not willing to be part of this coalition and I still stand by what I said there. There has been a lot of feverish talk about an “anti-New Labour” – and by implication pro-Lib-Con – coalition on the blogosphere and a lot…

  • Why I’m not willing to be part of this coalition

    MatGB has written a number of provocative posts about the need to develop a “coalition of the willing” to fight the “New Labour project” (hat tip: Nick Barlow). I’m afraid I’m not convinced by all this at all, and so I thought I’d spell out why. To start with, one of the best bits of…