The Plashing Vole

So, the Thatcher funeral. A 7 hour tribute in the Commons compared with the 45 minutes afforded Winston Churchill. A David Cameron inter...

Evening all! Yes, it's 7.15 p.m. and I'm in the office, which is normal for me. But it's not normal for me not to post on here s...

So, this weekend in between cooking delightful food (braised leeks in thyme and white wine, on a bed of pearl barley one night, followed by ...

Meet hack Charles Moore. He robotically repeats the Conservative Party line in a wide range of media outlets. And C3PO, who's less predi...

For what seems like (but can't be) the fifth week running, the Mail is criticising the breasts and/or employment of people who celebrat...

There are a lot of Thatcher Death Party soundtracks floating around at the moment. One of my favourite collections in this one , because it ...

Have the Conservatives changed? Here are some old Steve Bell cartoons. You may want to click on them to enlarge While listening to Torie...

It is, isn't it? Despite not dying on a trolley in an underfunded or privatised hospital, Thatcher's death at least happened. I was ...

Yesterday I emailed my prospective Labour Parliamentary Candidates about their platforms. You can read it here . Today I got a reply from...

Yesterday, I got letters from two men who want to be the Labour candidate for the constituency in 2015. One is Mr Marris, the slavishly loya...

While I think about it, here's a poem from the 1930s about the way hegemony leads us to maintain, rather than overthrow, political syste...

By now, you'll all have heard that Margaret Thatcher is dead. Within minutes, the self-appointed 'serious' liberals and leftwing...

Hi everybody. How are you all? I'm back from my holiday and unsurprised to find that the UK has become an even meaner, nastier place tha...