Every so often there's a post on Harry's Place that I enjoy or find useful. I am, of course, duly ashamed of myself as it's hardly a place known for its cool and rational perspectives on politics, but once a month or so there's something worth reading there. We basically come from very different places and usually when I read HP it's with one long tut on the go. However, that does not mean I think...

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...

"Politics is all very well in its place, that place being very much on the periphery of life." Tim Worstall, who has had an impressive year on his own blog, and seems to have quite marvellously upset one of the main figures of the Guardian's columnists. Excellent....

Seven days in Politics What a seven days we have just had in politics. Cabinet members jumping ship, expenses scandals raging on, backbenchers calling for their party leader’s head, the small matter of the second largest exercise in democracy in the world taking place, the worst showing of the major parties in living memory, the

Christmas Eve saw the discovery of the body of 23 year old Stephan Bisky in his flat in Windmill Place just off Buccleuch Street.  Stephan's father is well known in German politics as this report highlights.

Politics is a funny old game. Just when you think everything is going well the unexpected comes along and bites you. What is worse is that often the offence you are accused of is spurious, taken out of context or just plain made up, leaving behind the feeling of why bother in the first place. Sometimes a perfectly innocent event such as a fancy dress party to celebrate your birthday, months before...

Welcome to the concluding part of a two-part series about the real impact social media (or social networking) is having on politics in Britain. Last week I looked at the groups which face extinction; today it’s why pundits searching for the impact of social media on politics in 2010 are looking in the wrong place. For

This site has slipped to second place from first last year in the annual Total Politics Blog Poll of MPs websites. This is not of course an MP’s website as narrowly defined - it is a running commentary and an invitation to my readers to a debate on

I've long held the view now that Parliament would be a much better place if it was like it was hundred of years ago in the days of Fox and Pitt. Back then whilst you belonged to a "party" the party structure itself was much looser and on a par with the way the party system works in the US. Progression and achievement in politics was about principle and campaigns where those with widely differing v...

Don’t let anyone get away with the claptrap that the Peking Olympics are all about sport and we shouldn’t mix it up with politics. They are about politics first and big business second with sport trailing a long way behind in the bronze medal position. Every commentator, correspondent and apologist for China who defends participation in these games argues that they have nothing to do w...