The Today Programme's paper review this morning started off with a reference to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's interview with the Mirror which contains the following nugget... "Asked if she finds any fellow MPs dishy, she replies with a hearty laugh, "Yes! Most of my cabinet colleagues, and especially the Prime Minister." So could she ever fancy a Tory? "No!" If you wonder why Tory MPs are looking rather disconsolate this morning, now you know. Mind you, the backbench hecklers will no doubt have been given some further ammunition for schoolboy humour following this revelation... "And there's another bugbear - criticism over her wardrobe and especially those low-cut tops. "Get over it, I say. Get. Over. It!" Counters Jacqui. "Apparently...

So that doyen of the High Street Mark and Spencers are setting the green agenda for the Brown Government, or so it seems. After yesterday's announcement that the store will start charging for plastic bags from 6 May it appears that the Prime Minister himself may be hopping unto the band wagon. Lib Dem MSP Mike Pringle had presented a bill for a plastic bag levy north of the border in the last...

What is it about the Labour Party’s obsession with faith? If you click ‘Get Involved‘ in the main menu bar of the Labour Party website (screenshot pictured) you get 4 main headings: Join the Party, Conference 2008, Faith Groups and Labour - winning for women. OK, I’ve heard people say that Labour is a broad church in the sense that it brings in people with plenty of different beliefs, but this is frankly ludicrous - Labour is meant to be a political party, not some kind of religious crusade. Stephen Timms states “As a Party, we remain committed to listening to and learning from those who make up our faith communities.” While I hate the term ‘faith communities’, that nevertheless might be OK as something Labour should be aiming for, but it...

To fund this website, "the 10 Downing Street website for young people - your guide to the historic home and office of Tony Blair, the Prime Minister".So the lying starts on the first page. Tone lives at #11 because of his sizeable brood, while Broon lives at #10.A quick trawl shows that attention to detail is not all it could be. There's a chap called David Llloyd George who was apparently a prime minister, and a possible relative called Daivd Lloyd George.The one line summaries of the achivements of noted prime ministers are quite amusing, here's Thatcher:"First female Prime Minister and led the country to victory in the conflict over the Falkland Islands. She was the longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th century". Elsewhere, I have just discovered that 'Throwing bricks through a...