The New Conservative Policy on Europe - What Really Happened

Iain Martin has an exclusive over at the Wall Street Journal.  He has been been handed a dodgy dossier which details the Conservative leadership’s fraught decision making process as they attempted to come up with the new policy. It is based on minutes of top secret meetings held in recent months and for historians offers a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the Tory high command.

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

A General Election can’t be far away when combatants like Lord Mandelson and George Osborne start trading insults.  It will be interesting to see what alternatives to actually using the word “liar” or “lying” the politicians can come up with.  Mandelson has a go today suggesting that Osborne is telling “deliberate untruths”.  Keep watching for more creative ways of saying the same thing…

Bullingdon Club antics don’t look too good in a recession

An interesting feature of the media coverage of the George Osborne sleaze scandal in the last week has been the resurrection of images from the Shadow Chancellor’s membership of the infamous Bullingdon Club - a hell-raising drinking club at Oxford…