Commons members go to war with their spending watchdog after it revealed MPs were paid more than £3.1 million in expenses in the four months after the general election... more
“All bloggers are gay”. This magisterial judgment, proffered to me by a fellow Westminster journalist not very long ago, summed up the way the mainstream media used to view the upstart “blogosphere”. ... more
A combination of humility, old-fashioned party management and sheer weight of numbers helped Gordon Brown survive the crunch meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party... more
Gordon Brown took a fresh battering as Labour MPs said he was “doomed” and former cabinet minister Charles Clarke said he was ashamed to be in the party... more
Little has changed in 15 years at Fergus Henderson's temple of 'nose-to-tail' eating yet the plaudits are flooding in. Nick Curtis headed to Smithfield to find out what makes the place tick... more
One of London's biggest rail franchises went out to tender with train bosses told to come up with dramatic improvements in order to win the right to run services from Victoria... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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