As the email puts it: No2EU activists have managed to break into the BNP-obsessed media by getting into the Question Time audience last week and on The Daily Politics today on BBC Two at noon and repeated at midnight. It is available to view on the link below. BBC One News will also feature a news item on No2EU: Yes to Democracy at 6.30pm. The link below.

The BBC has seen an email which suggests that Alliance councillor Ian Parsley is set to join the Ulster Unionist Conservative link-up.

I just got an email back from the National School of Government, and I understand that their programmes are open to non-civil servants. However, I think you would need to approach them direct to see which courses would be appropriate - there is a link to their customer services email address on their website. Hope that helps!

A senior official in the Department for International Development claimed £1,500 on his expenses for life coaching classes after 35 years in the civil service.

A GOP official in Tampa Bay, Florida appears to have got herself into a bit of hot water after sending out an email that said,I'm confused How can 2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, DC in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days notice?Whoops!

Thanks to Brynley for pointing out that the BBC link I posted about 'sixty migrant workers arrested' in a Holbeach leek field in fact only refers to 'eight arrests'... I wondered what Brynley's point was - until I revisted the BBC link and to my horror, saw that it had been amended. Rather than delete the original post, I thought it best to explain what I think has happene...

The prime minister has been accused of cutting himself off from the electorate after it emerged Downing Street removed a link allowing members of the public to email him from the website.

The Harmless Sky blog has discovered that support for the catastrophic global warming case is official BBC policy. Tony quotes a BBC report as follows: The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts, and has come to the view that the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus [on anthropogenic climate change].The...

A senior civil servant has been fined £2,500 after admitting breaching the Official Secrets Act by leaving top-secret documents on a commuter train last summer.

Laura Kuenssberg of the BBC is reporting that senior civil servants met this morning to discuss how they would implement the Tory plans for efficiency savings. Now, it is not surprising that the civil service is discussing how to implement the opposition’s plans. But what is intriguing is who told the BBC about the meeting. If it was the Tories, then no surprise. But if it was the civil serv...