I’ve been out leafleting for Ken this afternoon - delivering leaflets along the local streets, to the houses that were clearly built to be occupied by one family but which no contain three or even four flats, which must be tiny. To the houses where the dogs bark quite excitedly, having been brought up […]
So, how much for a peerage?
Just how much did you raise from selling your old headquarters?
What do you think about grammar schools?
I don’t see Dave’s bike parked outside, does he really cycle in every day?
Unfortunatly I chickened out, complimented him on his coffee mugs (CCHQ mugs have pretty pictures of trees on theirs) and asked […]
Did I tell you about my day of celebrity spotting the other week?
It all started with (almost) seeing Al Gore who was in my new building visiting the shadow cabinet (did I tell you they’d moved in downstairs?). When my colleagues and I heard that they were all assembled in the lobby with Al […]
Rushing to work this morning, iPod plugged in, coffee firmly grasped in hand, trying to dodge the usual commuters, who should I see but David Milliband, fresh from his fiesty interview on the Today programme, striding towards me, flanked by at least three advisors - all of whom were a bit too tall frankly! […]
The most talked about thing in the westminster village this week has not been the latest home office crisis, nor the re-arrest of Lord Levy, or Tony Blair’s second interview with the police but the start of Party Animals, BBC2 drama claiming to “take a look at Westminster from the ground up – the young […]
Big excitment this week as Tony Blair endorsed Gordon Brown, or did he? The police announced they would be interviewing Blair before Christmas, or did they? Hazel Blears announced she was running for deputy leadership, or did she? And the Queen came to Parliament to give a 852 word speech, yes she did.
The […]
Political attention this week has been mainly focused across the pond, where the Democrats have taken control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, just for good measure. The result of which is that the Senate has its first ever female speaker, and Donald Rumsfeld has gone, gone, gone,
Events over here have […]
Working where I do its rare that more than a day goes past without spotting an MP who is in the public eye, admittedly sometimes it’s a public eye that is looking teh other way. I regularly walk up the stairs to my office rather than share the lift with William Hague, who seems […]
The main surprise of Labour Party conference this week was that the party managed to keep itself together, just, and didn’t disintegrate into back stabbing and in fighting, well not too much.
Cabinet Ministers kept to their agreed truce before conference not to talk about the leadership or the deputy leadership, although this didn’t stop journalists […]
It was the Liberal Democrat conference this week and you could be forgiven for not having noticed. So for those of you with better things to do with their lives than watch rolling news all day, which has nothing to show but live feeds from the conference, I give you five things you should […]