The serialisation of Lord Mandelson’s memoirs, eerily entitled The Third Man, in The Times has attracted the expected attention of the Westminster world. Despite the enhanced level of detail contained within the dark reaches of Lord Mandelson’s book concerning the Blair-Brown feud—barely scandalous after thirteen years of New Labour—Lord Mandelson’s account of his former government [...]

Filed under: corruption, gordonbrown, ukpolitics on July 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

At 8.05 this morning, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg unveiled his latest pet project: the Your Freedom website, an internet forum in which members of the public are invited to discuss the laws they would like to see repealed and the civil liberties they would like to see restored. At 8.30, I signed up, fearing [...]

Filed under: civilliberties, conservatives, davidcameron, jonathanbirch, ukpolitics on July 1st, 2010 | No Comments »