July 2011
Ministers say judge elected police commissioners on Boris: Well, Boris has failed
Ministers claim that Boris Johnson's mayoralty has been an effective trial for elected police commissioners. If so they have been shown to fail in the light of further hackergate revelations and the plans should be ditched.
Spelman’s hat-trick of Defra disasters
With the forests sell-off, the handling of wild animals in circuses and now an ill thought-out badger cull Caroline Spelman has shot herself in the foot three times.
Yet again, Cameron fails to say sorry over Coulson
For the umpteenth time, David Cameron failed to fully apologise for brining the poison of Andy Coulson into Downing Street, in a Commons debate on phone hacking.
The hackgate questions Cameron must answer
In the next half hour, the prime minister will make an emergency statement to Parliament on the phone hacking scandal, as more damning revelations emerge.
Osborne lets public bank bonuses rip, despite right’s obsession with public sector pay
If the right were really worried about inflating public sector pay, they may want to start with the bonuses of the public sector banks
Idiotic pie-attacker will do nothing to boost the anti-Murdoch cause
Today’s select committee hearings into phone hacking briefly descended into chaos after a protestor attacked Rupert Murdoch, reports Tom Rouse.