The fall of Chris Huhne may have thrilled the Westminster village, but for the rest of us it barely registered.

The Iron Lady cast a steely shadow over the Westminster village last week. Memories of Baroness Thatcher’s reign of heavy metal terror still strike fear in those who inhabited the place in the days when she would mercilessly handbag anyone who dared to cross her path. Last week, of course, her major Hollywood biopic was

In a speech to the Demos think tank today, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will use some particularly robust language about seeing through House of Lords reform: There is a typical Westminster village cynicism that Lords reform is never going to happen because it has not happened in 100 years. I have no doubt that

There seems to be a feeling among some in the Westminster village that Tom Watson’s mafia comparison with News International (NI) and with James Murdoch in particular was very impolite. Also there’s a suggestion that Watson was grandstanding. On this latter point I’m sure he was, after all he is politician. As for the lack

Ed Miliband chose to ask all six questions on the economy today, making only the quickest of references to the Liam Fox story that the Westminster village is currently obsessing over. Armed with ammunition from the latest unemployment numbers, Miliband did a solid job of pushing Cameron onto the back foot. But there was one moment which will worry Miliband's supporters: the spontaneous way th...

I am quite taken with Sunny’s recent notion that Ed Miliband need more ‘stunts’ to raise his profile. Miliband seems to be trying precisely that with his Shadow Cabinet election-removal controversy thing, but that just makes him seem inward-looking; no-one beyond the Westminster Village really cares. So here’s something else to rival Blair’s Clause IV moment. It&rsquo...

While the Westminster Village is fixated by the Telegraph-hyped furore that Lib Dem ministers don’t always agree with every aspect of Coalition policy (shock, horror etc), the rest of the country is focused on a British obsession bigger even than the media’s predeliction for attaching the suffix ‘-gate’ to a noun: the weather. Newspaper and

How do the Westminster Village use Twitter? Tweeters explain, including @reporterboy, @ToryBear, @pennyRed and @epolitix

A MERE 13 weeks ago, Danny Alexander was an obscure Highlands MP, who, for those in the Westminster village, was best known for being Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's

A MERE 13 weeks ago, Danny Alexander was an obscure Highlands MP, who, for those in the Westminster village, was best known for being Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's