I was rather puzzled by the Sunday Telegrpah’s report today by Melissa Kite on the standing of party leaders, which claimed that Nick Clegg’s net leader performance rating in polling for PoliticsHome had plummeted since last September. Puzzled because that would be way out of line with what the other polls have been saying. One email

This is a talk given by Melissa Lane at the session on Liberty, sovereignty and republicanism - Can the Leveller tradition be revived in the 21st century? at the Convention on Modern Liberty Melissa Lane (King's College, Cambridge): The panel has already brought to light many of the major themes connected with the Levellers: freedom of religion and toleration; liberty from oppre...

Nick Clegg’s interview with the Sunday Telegraph today is a punchy affair. He derides the Tories as “the flaky party” on the economy and tells Melissa Kite that the Lib Dems are looking to go further than the 4p cut in the basic rate of income tax that they have already promised. Now, those of us who support easing the tax burden should be happy about this. A  Lib Dem policy...

Melissa Kite was the recipient of one of Damian Green's leaked Home Office documents. It concerned the case of an illegal immigrant working in the Commons. Liam Byrne, the then Immigration Minister was alerted but failed to come to Parliament to explain himself. The document then appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. Can amyone seriously argue that this was not a legitimate matter of public inter...

The offer of a banana split might topple Captain Gordon Mainwaring, reveals Melissa Kite.

On the stump in Westminster-on-Sea, Private Mandelson does a brisk business in rumour-mongering, as Melissa Kite reveals in her tongue-in-cheek series

On 23 July this year I heralded a rare "Exclusive" on my blog entitled: "Brown vandalises Commons Despatch Box".  Today, seven weeks after my piece, Melissa Kite reveals (er, excuse me?) that the vandal of the Despatch Box is...Gordon Brown.  No hat tip for me in the article, for some reason :)  This should as no surprise. Melissa Shite hates bloggers. "Tory blogging is close to dea...

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg’s speech to celebrate the 75th anniversay of Liberty is excerpted over at the Independent. Here’s his sombre conclusion: for all the complaining Liberal Democrats and other liberty campaigners do about the misuse of power by government, the truth is, nowhere near all of the powers available to police and government are

The snogfree zone is a true sign of the times says Melissa Kite.

Melissa Kite imagines a comic extravaganza starring Gordon Brown as Sid and Jacqui Smith as Babs.