The more we hear about South West Norfolk Conservatives, the more the heart goes out to the poor candidates trying to penetrate the closed world of local Tory associations
Read full article...New Labour and the Murdoch empire is a love affair that has now come to an abrupt and bitter end. All that is left is revenge, recrimination and the question: "Why did you leave me this way?"
Who would be Gordon Brown, pilloried after trying to console an angry mother who has no intention of being consoled after the death of her son in a controversial war?
On this day in 1989 the Berlin Wall was finally breached, ending the reign of East Germany’s feared security service. Here Anne McElvoy, who spent much of the Eighties in the city, recalls her encounters with the spooks
The designer of Samantha Cameron's party conference frock is now suing M&S over its copyright. But fashion feuds apart, Alison Mansell insists, she's a Tory too
Twenty years ago this month, the Czechs provided one of the highlights of a historic year when the Velvet Revolution in Prague drove the Communists from power
Will he, won't he? Rarely has there been such a fuss over a job without the main candidate having even said he wants it
Voters delight, politicians duck for cover: The Thick of It is back. Never can there have been a better time to take apart the preening control freakery of the classe politique
He loves tall buildings and winding up his party leader. The Mayor is turning out to be a lot like his predecessor
It's the most stressful problem for any London parent and there are no easy answers. Should you send your child private, state, grammar or faith? Our writer describes her personal journey through the capital's educational maze
What is it with them? The former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith this week issued an apology for her mistaken expenses so grudging she really does seem to believe she is the major victim of this demeaning affair
Here's one we tried earlier. William Hague arrived on the vast empty stage. “Let’s give a warm welcome to the shadow cabinet!” he cried. There followed an awkward moment, in which the shadow cabinet ambled on, looking splendidly ill-assorted, despite the best efforts of the stylists backstage. Eric Pickles had the lumbering walk of an alderman on school sports day
Dusty pinstripes and car coats are no more. The new Tory image has been crafted by experts
Oh blimey, it's blood sweat and tears week. Frankly, the Tory party looks a bit disconcerted. It came to Manchester expecting the Nuremberg rally and ended up at an accountant's convention, being told how little money there is to go round and how horrible it's all going to be
Gorgeous George has it (nearly) all. The brain, the determination and the well-dressed wife in the front row
Boris arrived to the siren strains of EastEnders. Peggy, unfortunately, couldn't make it but the Mayor is well capable of keeping the unruly crowd of Conservative conference goers in order by himself.
The PM made his pitch to stay in power by attacking the Tories’ empathy with the well-off. A brave move — but it won’t save him
"Lighten up", Peter Mandelson instructed Gloomy Gordon, and Sarah Brown, as usual, got the message before her husband. She was sporting a lustrous honey-tinted hair colour and had forsaken those forbidding beige and red numbers for a vibrant splash of a floral dress.
Interview: Tessa Jowell hits back at claims that she was ready to quit with James Purnell
The Attorney General would arouse more sympathy if she had the sense to sound sorry for her error of judgment
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