TORY rebels are set to hold talks with Labour on Monday to thrash out a deal to overturn Nick Clegg's plans to hold a referendum on changing the voting system on the same

Over at ATW, David Vance has the best line on the whole William Vague thing. Personally, I was sceptical about the whole gay thing, until I saw how the usual suspects have railed round him. It says a lot about where the Tory Party is at right now that Dave's Drones are shocked - shocked! - that the guy who harried Prezza and Jackie Smith is now hunting down Tory crooks. What kind of game is that G...

I was reminded recently of Winston Churchill who once disparagingly described the Labour Prime Minster Clement Attlee, voted as the most ever successful leader of our party as: "A modest man, but then he has so much to be modest about". I was also reminded of Michael Foot was at the time the best orator in the party and unequalled at the dispatch box. Forgot in the events of 1983 is that Michael F...

David Cameron's chief spin doctor encouraged rep­orters to break the law by hacking into telephone messages while he was editing a national newspaper, according to allegations in The New York Times

Labour’s claims that Tory Government is bad for your health have already been verified in the early days of the Con/Lib Government. The news that Surrey Heath has the highest level of road accidents for children in Surrey comes with the announcement that Runnymede and Chertsey MP Philip Hammond is cutting the Government grant for speed cameras. "There is now every chance that more children w...

Six more Westminster City Council staff have been given the sack following the Council's decision to save money by moving its post room from City Hall in Victoria Street to the Council House in Marylebone Road. The six staff are: a Manager, a Post Driver, 3 Post staff; and a Porter. These latest cuts are the result of the Council's financial bungling which led to a £20 million hole...

Ex-Attorney General Lord Lyell, who served under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, has died at the age of 71 after living with cancer, his family say.

In an interview with The Observer, the chief secretary to the Treasury seemed to dismiss the prospect of net tax cuts before the next general election, expected in 2015

John Hillary, Executive Director of War on Want, has written an article for - amaze me some more - the Guardian. Here it is: A myopic Tory approach to fighting global poverty Mr Hillary, I am sure, sincerely wants to fight global poverty. The trouble is that he and his colleagues in the development "community" have become a mini-class in their own right, complete with a class interest. I am foreve...

We expect Lib Dem minister to be confused about reality and woolly - after all they have self selected for that. But Gove and Willetts are treading a dangerous line. Here are two headlines ( one for each of them ): Middle class to lose its grip on best state schools Why does a Tory minister want to be a Stalinist social engineer? What do they both have in common ? Social engineering to paper of th...