As usual, we liveblogged Question Time last night, followed by the always dreadful This Week. For those who don’t follow it, Michael Portillo confuses the eyes with his salmon tinted shirts, Diane Abbott stares longingly at the ceiling lusting after a massive pie only just out of reach (©John Ward), […]

The breaking story currently buzzing on the newswire is that Chris Huhne has been exposed as being a straight LibDem. Colleagues are reacting with shock. Mark Oaten has probably put down his rent boys for half an hour to digest his disgust at this quite unforeseen development. By straying into […]

The TaxPayers’ Alliance have released a new video today…okay a bit contrived but making a very valid point…in which they try (and fail) to pay the European Commission a cheque covering Britain’s daily EU membership fee. Somebody needs to tell “George Osborne” and “Danny Alexander” that the botox treatment didn’t […]

Proof if proof were needed that laissez-faire capitalism, low taxes and fewer regulations do indeed cross boundaries. The Tea Party phenomenon has started to go global. As Tea Party protests pop up in places like Moscow, Tel Aviv and the Hague, Americans may question whether the Tea Party platform can […]

One of the most stupid, short-sighted and unpopular pledges by the incoming Conservatives was the pledge to ring-fence the Overseas Aid budget. It was an idea so mind-bogglingly retarded that even the handwringing bearded weirdie LibDems didn’t suggest it; which is saying something. On the list of the poor and […]

There is a new widget on the FT website (free registration) which invites us to choose where we think that the deficit-cutting axe should fall, and reflects the impact that those choices will (according to them) have. There is a choice of Party, which auto-ringfences certain budgets, or the sensible option […]

Expansive tipping of the trilby to Mr Eugenides

‘I don’t want to be a member of the House of Lords. I will not accept it,’ John  Prescott, 2009 It reads like Wilson’s Lavender list – a shameful compilation of has-beens, never-will-be’s and frankly disturbing toadys. This is the list of people that the One Eyed SnotGobbler thinks make a worthwhile addition […]

Made TheEye chuckle… Hat-tip to @MarthaKearney

Well, if you’re counting the politically correct tickboxes then (half) Black, (half) Jewish, Woman, Idiot gets you the full house. The same tokenistic idea of tickboxes, incidentally, which the Human Bouncy Castle, Diane Abbott, is blatantly using to leverage her pointless campaign to lead the Labour Party. And if you […]