The Guardian has made more petty attempts at moral equivalence today by running a ‘story’ in which they get overly excited about the fact that between 2004 and 2008, 45 Americans tried to claim political asylum in the UK in...

Kudos to the Guardian which has obtained council-level euro results and munged them together into one giant spreadsheet with click-sort columns, over on its datablog. The hook the Guardian are using is that it allows you see just how well the BNP did in your area, but anyone with a political hat will want to

Thisa site is maintained by the Guardian newspaper. It provides free access to a collection of materials from the newspaper relating to the life, political career and impact of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. They include newspaper articles, political comment, blog postings, podcasts, film clips and political cartoons. Topics covered include Thatcherism, the role of Margaret Thatc...

Ireland's bank bail-out plans came as a relief to the European Central Bank, after providing another example of the political role played by the euro's monetary guardian

As the old order comes crashing down, a vast survey has given Guardian readers the chance to have their say on the building of the new. Tom Clark reports on the results. Voting reform is the key to unlocking a new political settlement, according to a survey of Guardian and Observer readers. Unprecedented in scale and ambition, the study involved more than 5,000 of you giving your views on the big ...

In writing on the occasion of a William Beveridge anniversary, Liam Byrne isn't out to present a scholarly summary of the famous Beveridge White Paper, he's testing how a few new welfare themes might be received in today's political climate. The Guardian has picked a few readers' letters commenting on his article. Their choice tells you how extreme is The Guardian's ethos,...

Charlie Beckett wrote an article yesterday (via Iain Dale) looking at the power of political blogs compared with the broader media, using data from Guido, a list of traffic to US Newspapers from the Editor and Publisher blog, and overall Guardian readership figures (link to PDF). I agree with Charlie's general thrust: Overall, no-one would deny that Guido is a significant part of the blogosph...

An extraordinary thing happened last night; political bloggers of the left and right united in condemnation of this story which is also on The Guardian front page today. Many also appear to have taken matters into their own hands, publishing details The Guardian is unable to, together with some of the backstory linked to the

I hope the Guardian is correct in its prediction today that Jim Murphy is going to be promoted to the Cabinet. He deserves it on merit quite apart from the political ramifications set out by the Guardian.

The Guardian's US political team look back at the events that have marked and marred the presidency of George W. Bush. Is he really the worst president of all time?