The people of Switzerland have voted, democratically, to ban the building of minarets. More than 57% of voters and 22 of the 26 Swiss cantons …

Unlike a lot of Tory bloggers – and apparently Tory members – I think that it is a bad thing that Nigel Farage has chosen …

Jack Straw’s new proposals for continuing to reform of the House of Lords (just a decade after starting it!) bear an extremely marked similarity to …

The Telegraph continues to publish more and more details of MPs expense claims and, alongside public anger, forcing MPs into humiliating apologies and resignations. But …

The Conservatives need to be careful about seeming too congratulatory about themselves and their electoral prospects at the next general election. William Hague was pushing …

In prison. Jail. The Big House. At Her Majesty’s Pleasure. Prison is the place where convicted criminals are locked up for breaking the law. It …

Polly Toynbee has declared, with a straight face, that

Britain without the Mail or the Sun would be a happier place, less biliously nihilist, less miserable, …

The House of Lords has been getting a bit of a battering in the press recently, after the “cash for laws” scandal erupted, over four …

Yesterday I wrote a post on the proposal from the Conservatives to reduce the number of MPs who sit in the House of Commons by …

Last week, Gordon Brown invited Peter Mandelson back from the EU and into his Cabinet. But – hang on! – don’t you have to be …