As Helen has covered on The Voice, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is running a public consultation on MPs’ expenses. Comments on its proposals can be submitted until 11 February 2010. A couple of people mentioned in comments to that post that the proposals are rather better than the media coverage made them fear, and reading

Tory MEPs have this morning published their expenses for the last quarter of 2008. Timothy Kirkhope MEP comments:“Conservative MEPs are the first British delegation in the European Parliament to voluntarily publish details of our allowances and expenses. I hope that...

When the Mail on Sunday first approached Rod Liddle yesterday about comments posted on the Millwall FC site, he denied posting some of the inflammatory comments and claimed the comments had been made by a hacker. Later he admitted making those comments, though not all. Which means that Rod Liddle has a whole host question to answers, as we've done some digging and found very vile comments pos...

Inspired by this piece of 'blog research, and comments by Mark Wadsworth thereto, I decided to see whether the size of an MP's majority was related to the size of their expenses claim. I used the Pippa Norris database and an excel file of expenses I found somewhere. The results are relatively disappointing. Here is a scatter of MP's total expenses in pounds and their majority as a %...

Due to a recent spate of anonymous comments I think it's time I set out a comments policy. Comments are welcome and encouraged. Please make sure to keep comments relevant to the blog post (this applies to any links that may be included). Rude, wasteful, off-topic are discouraged but will not be deleted. If you want to make yourself look like an idiot your very much welcome to. I'm also t...

Due to a recent spate of spam type comments I think it's time to post a repeat of this blogs comments policy. Comments are welcome and encouraged. Please make sure to keep comments relevant to the blog post (this applies to any links that may be included). Rude, wasteful, off-topic are discouraged but will not be deleted. If you want to make yourself look like an idiot your very much welcome ...

It is great news that the Daily Telegraph has begun to publish details of MP's expenses, I think it is fair to expect a lot more over the weekend and this will run right through May. It is a frequent co-incidence that the most interesting political scandals tend to happen when I am busiest at work, alas I shall have to keep my comments short for now. Yes, there will be new details emerging every d...

Comments from head of expenses watchdog amid fears that MPs will receive a big pay rise after the election.

David Wilshire the disgraced Tory MP has offered an "unreserved" apology for comparing politicians caught up in the expenses scandal to Holocaust victims.

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