Colne Valley MP Kali Mountford has announced she will step down at next GE. Annoucing her decision, she wrote to local activists: "I have had to come to this decision reluctantly. I love the job and have some fantastic memories, both in Parliament and in the constituency. The Colne Valley is a great place to live and work and the people &# even those that disagree with you &# are straightforw...

Found a fantastic guide on how to write about Africa from an Islington perspective: Throughout the book, adopt a sotto voice, in conspiracy with the reader, and a sad I-expected-so-much tone. Establish early on that your liberalism is impeccable, and mention near the beginning how much you love Africa, how you fell in love with the place and can’t live without her. Africa is the only continent y...

It's not an investment. It's a place to hang your hat. It's a place to keep your books. It's a place to keep your clothes. It's a place to eat. It's a place to sleep. It's a place to make love. It's a place to have fun. It's a place to be happy. It's a place to be sad. It is not an investment. Or as Charlie Brooker puts it:For years, money was just...

A rare parliamentary love-in took place in parliament today. Frontbench spokesmen for the Government, Conservatives and LibDems heaped praised on one MP who had changed he nation’s policy. Steve Webb the LibDem spokesman talked of being persuaded by Nottingham MP...

In 1997: Earlier this month, he told The Sun he liked nothing better than a quiet weekend in Sedgefield, the urban north England electorate he represents in Parliament. "It's fantastic up there, the place we can really relax. When the...

I love America, I have some great American friends for whom I have a deep and abiding affection. I think the country is fantastic, the food superb and the scenery fantastic. My American friends are Lawyers, Financiers, Army Officers, Businessmen and Reporters. They are good and honourable people and above all not stupid, but even many of them are getting overly and excessively excited about this I...

…….in his own van! This just illustrates the moronic stupidity of some council employees and jobsworths! So the van is classified as his place of work, eh? Does that mean he does the painting and decorating inside of it? Is it still his place of work on his day off? Is it his place of work when travelling between jobs? Talk

Fantastic profile of yours truly in the Telegraph which, as hatchet jobs, go is a pretty good example of its kind. Love the way they go on repeatedly about Guido’s “criminality”, which amounts to being arrested drunk four times in forty years, a crime which Guido usually gets away with most Fridays.  The criticism for

MANY people might love to demolish the Scottish Parliament and build something else in its place.

Goddaughter 2 has gone to live in Japan for a year.  She is staying with a Japanese family and going to school there.  This is her first report.  There will hopefully be more, including, so she has promised, photos.  But, what does “xD” mean? I love it here.  Japan is fantastic.  The views are beautiful.  I can see Mt. Fuji from my train station. My h...