The first post-election Question Time comes London. On the panel tonight are Lord Heseltine and Simon Hughes for the Liberals, Lord Falconer for Labour, Melanie Phillips for all those who mistakenly thought they were voting for a right-of-centre government last week, and Mehdi Hasan, who may or may not be an 83 year old ghazal singer from […]

TheEye was watching cricket yesterday, and all sorts of excitement seem to have happened in the meantime. Typical, isn’t it? A splendid summary by ToryBear wrapped up in a single picture: Despite the vast amount of trees currently being chopped down to provide us with a range of opinions from the […]

This is Sterling against the Dollar as Brown triggered a Labour leadership election and offered the LibDems a coalition until that bloodbath takes place in the Autumn. Clegg’s response of opening formal talks just cemented the gloom in the markets. And all this is happening before we get to see […]

Will this look a bit daft in 24 hours? Their website hasn’t caught up with their dead-tree version yet. Isn’t it supposed to work the other way around?

…and Police in Westminster have confirmed that the stand-off at a large terraced house in London is continuing. Reports say that Scottish man has barricaded himself inside and is holding 60 million people hostage.

In a piece of random daftness, it seem that some people go through life with a great big target on their backs: Police say a Pittsfield woman has been cited for running down a man named Lord Jesus Christ as he crossed a street in Northampton [MA] on Tuesday. The […]

“The people have spoken, the bastards”. Dick Tuck’s concession speech following his loss in the 1966 California Senate. And so we wait another day to find out who will be our next Prime Minister. Astonishingly, if we don’t have a new one by Monday morning then Jim Knight, Mike O’Brien, […]

Laugh or cry? There was a time when our electoral system was fair and incorruptible. We don’t live in Africa…over here, what went into the ballot boxes was what came out. One Man (before lunacy crept in) One Vote. A property franchise too. Life was much more civilised before the […]

It’s over and the dust is beginning to settle. Gordoom is holed up in the bunker staring gloomily at the revolver and the whisky but can’t bring himself to do the honourable thing. It’s a crying shame that the last sentence was typed metaphorically rather than literally. Having been fed […]