Busted.  Yep, that's the word which first sprung to mind when I read the Sunday Times's expose of MPs and their dirty lobbying work.  Hoon, Hewitt, Byers – they're all revealed as providing influence and access for cash, and a lot of cash at that.  But it's Byers who comes out of it the worst.  You can read his story here, but suffice to say that it in...

By way of introduction, a sample of what Kitty Ussher (Labour MP for Burnley) had done: Kitty Ussher used allowances for £20,000 house make-over The records reveal that Miss Ussher, the MP for Burnley, contacted the Commons fees office within 12 months of being elected, with a detailed programme of work for the property she had already

When you are alone in the house watching serial killer shenanigans with your headphones on (it makes the sound work better somehow) it’s going to make you jump when two Siamese decide to start a mad game of chase behind you. Chase? Siamese? How?

Conservative blogger and film critic Debbie Schlussel is someone I've interacted with in the past and whom I link to because, in spite of a personality that could peel paint, she has done and continues to do superb work when it comes to unmasking the creeping jihad in America. That said, she's the sort of person who seems to delight in picking fights with others on the Right side of the ...

Chancellor to announce measures to help people who have given up looking for work in Labour's last Budget before election.

ONE of Scotland's most distinguished judges was being honoured at an awards ceremony in Edinburgh today.

You could do a better job, right? Well, of course you could. And now here’s your chance. Reform has launched two new playthings in the run up to the Budget. The first, a tax calculator, lets you work out the...

ALISTAIR Darling is set to announce additional cash for back-to-work programmes after better-than-expected figures for February gave the Chancellor a surprise windfall ahead o

NHHT - UNISON Strike Action - 15th March 2010Uploaded by unisoncomms. - Up-to-the minute news videos. via John Gray No carers leave? No flexi time? No Consultation? Love where I work? These important and highly valued family friendly policies are being taken away by a Chief Executive who could cover the entire cost with under a third of her own salary.

Some people shouldn’t be allowed to breed, let alone run major engineering projects. Quite a few schools in Telford are being rebuilt and one of them is a few miles away from where I live.  The council have chosen a hill covered in woodland as the site of the playing fields for this new school.  Work