Tom Harris wants to depose the Prime Minister, but only in favour of some right-wing Blairite clone, apparently. Yes, Tom, let's have a beauty contest, let's unite behind some fresh-faced Blair/Cameron/Clegg clone, because you wouldn't want a leadership election based on issues, would you? Still... its not all bad news. Good to see that some people still believe in democracy.

On the same news programme this evening I heard it reported that Tony Blair said something on the lines of : "I did not pressure Goldsmith to change his mind" The BBC reports in its news headline that Blair said pressure was no bought to bear on Goldsmith to change his mind. Of course the two aren't the same. Blair uses his lawyers grasp of words to say something you think means one thing, bu...

It’s quite apparent now that a coup is underway to force a Labour leadership contest. A government whip and the party’s vice chairman have both been sacked. Six more MP’s have today openly called for a contest. The Telegraph reports that a number of former Blair era ministers are planning their own interventions over the next few days. The Sunday papers should make interesting reading. Can B...

Phil reminds us that it is that time of the year again, when we vain and vapid bloggers pretend we aren’t interested in the results of the Total Politics Top 100 blog poll. Some people boycott the poll, to my mind that invests it with too much significance. It happens anyway, so there is nothing to

Tony Blair is not a candidate and the job does not yet exist. But British politics is already gripped by the possibility that the former prime minister could within weeks become the EU's full-time president

This one is for the political junkies - from the Washington Post - it says: Create your political map and predict the electoral outcome! Think you know politics? Here's your chance to prove it. Pick which candidate will get to 270 electoral votes and you could win the most competitive contest outside the presidential race. Full Contest Rules and Prizes.

Gordon Brown accepts Tony Blair cannot become the first president of the European Council, Downing Street has said.

There is no doubt that Tony Blair's premiership will be remembered for its wars. His time in office was regularly punctuated by military conflict - Kosovo, Sierra Leone,

The Labour Party has launched an investigation after a ballot box was tampered with in a contest being fought by the daughter of one of Tony Blair's closest aides.

So the Saville inquiry is in, and the innocence of those who were shot and the failure of those who did the shooting and gave the orders is proclaimed. I hope this will allow the relatives of the dead a bit more peace. But the politics of the whole thing looks insane. You have to wonder what went through Tony Blair's tiny mind when he agreed to it. There were mistakes by many people during th...