I love movie posters, and I especially love movie posters that I have already seen in London, translated into someone else's language, for somewhere else. So, I love this: These are all over Paris just now, as are huge pictures of Kate Beckinsale (star of Underworld – Nouvelle Ere) and a smaller one of Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, known here as La Taupe (the mole). J...

Manchester ‘mole gang’ escapes with just £6,000 after 100ft tunnel heist Gang may have been left out of pocket by having to hire expensive drilling equipment, say police OK, so they dug the tunnel, got to the target and then found that there wasn’t as much cash as they had thought. Diddums. That’s not the

POLITICS is a rough, tough business, right? Not, it seems, if you are Richard Lyle, possibly Holyrood's thinnest-skinned MSP. A mole brings me an extraordinary email exchange involving the SNP Central Scotland MSP, his researcher Philip Brown and Tory MSP Nanette Milne's researcher, Dom Heslop. It goes like this: * From: Brown P (Philip) Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 02:11 PM To: DL MSPs Cc: DL MS...

The head of the civil service has launched a mole-hunt after the leak of lists of around 180 public bodies apparently facing abolition in a "bonfire of the quangos".

So why did the bonfire of the quango's letter leak to the BBC ? Its not a matter of overriding conscience or even national interest. But its is one of very narrow partisan interest. Its a headline that could have been in George Osborne or David Cameron's conference speeches. The motive is clear, its also clear that someone very near or in no 10 is putting their own left wing politics abo...

Below is a letter leaked to the campaigning organization Benefits and Workby a mole within the Department of Work and Pensions.(DWP) It deals with the likely chaos which will prevail when the coalition governments decision to target with benefit cuts the sick and disabled is put into practice en-mass next year. According to the DWP letter, not only will many of those claiming benefi...

h/t Jasper Carrott. PS No silly week has not started - I'll tell you when ...

The Conservative parliamentary candidate for Mole Valley in Surrey says he will not be complacent in the run up to the election.

If you’ve ever wondered what it is they do all day in the Chinese government, try this out for size: The Diary of Tobacco Bureau Chief Han Feng. Short version: drinking, screwing, eating, buying consumer electronics, having meetings, rinse, repeat....

John Gummer, the former Tory cabinet minister who charged the taxpayer to rid his country estate of moles, is to stand down at the election, he has announced.