Value for money Tories are delighted that according to the Evening Standard today Caroline Spelman will be exonerated. However as Cameron gleefully retains her place in the Shadow Cabinet could he please let the tax payer know what she does that would warrant a Nanny or a p.a.? According to They Work for You .com not a lot. Caroline Spelman MP has.. Spoken in 3 debates in the last y...

George Osborne says in the Evening Standard: Our economy sucked up the savings of millions of Chinese workers, like a national vacuum cleaner, and spent them - often on the very goods those Chinese workers were toiling away in their factories to make. And the message from the Labour Government was: don’t worry, we’re borrowing recklessly,

The London Evening Standard's Paul Waugh is reporting that Spelman will be cleared of wrong doing over her taxpayer funded nanny. If as sources claim the Lyon inquiry reports that there is no evidence of deliberate wrongdoing or a breach of Commons rules Cameron will not sack her from the Shadow Cabinet. This will infuriate many parents who have to pay for childcare out of post-tax income, to pay ...

That is what the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh is reporting. I certainly hope so. Caroline Spelman might never have been my choice for CCHQ but as said at the time she's a woman of integrity and I hope she is...

A flurry of calls from the media following the not entirely unexpected news that Sharon Shoesmith is appealing against her dismissal and apparently seeking compensation - Evening Standard jounalist said up to �£170,000. I hope her appeal fails because she signally failed in her child protection responsibilities - that was the damning conclusion of the Ed Balls ordered investigation. This concurs w...

Boris Johnson on Political Propaganda (2008) “As soon as I get in I will introduce proper accountability. I will get rid of the ludicrous Londoner free sheet, the Pyongyang-style newspaper that brings us news of the mayor’s achievements in buying more bendy buses.” Boris Johnson in the Evening Standard (2009) "That is why it is time for a new bus for London which, apart from anything else, ...

David Cameron’s New Year message contains a history lesson of arguable provenance claims the Evening Standard’s Londoner: “For us, the strong economy of the future will be built on a strong and responsible society. The Emperor Hadrian, when asked how Rome would be rebuilt after a devastating fire, replied: ‘Brick by brick, my citizens; brick

Kit Malthouse is my favourite London Assembly Member. When he's not busy with his nine jobs, planning his fantasy airports, dreaming up his underground cities and free council services, he finds time to tell the Evening Standard just how well he's getting on with it all. Take this interview today with Katherine Barney. Asked about the bipartisan struggle against knife crime, he slips effortlessly...

All unknowingly, at the end of last month and at the beginning of this month, I photoed a small moment of London history, namely the time when the Evening Standard headline signs stopped being hand done and then printed, and started being boringly printed and then just printed some more. I remember thinking a few years ago that this was bound to happen.  But then, when I started photoing thes...

An internal Liberal Democrat report into the London Mayoral election has leaked. And the findings are damning for the Liberal Democrat method of campaigning. (Evening Standard: Paddick was a turn-off for voters, say Lib-Dems) Highlights of the coverage include: ...activists were so upset with "negative campaigning" that they refused to deliver lealfets...And the report itself says: The present sys...