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The Conservative Party conference is taking place in Manchester this week. I know this because of the twin-set and tweed lot I spotted hanging around Piccadilly this morning (alongside a confused looking David Dimbleby). That the Tories have chosen Manchester as the host city for their last conference before a General Election says something about [...]

It’s easy to buy into the Sun’s rhetoric that by not backing Labour at the next election, as it will officially announce tomorrow, the paper will somehow guide public opinion in favour of the Tories. You can almost sense the “Sun wot won it for Dave” headlines now. I’ve just watched the Sun’s political editor [...]

Look kids! It’s DJ Davey C drinking a pint of bitter and looking like a dude! He’s going to be in town at the start of October and his peeps are hosting a wicked all night rave at the Pure night club! According to the e-flyer (helpfully distributed this week by Manchester Confidential to all [...]

I see Peter Mandelson is claiming some kind of moral victory over the Alan Duncan exposé that came out today. He says the secret tape of Duncan complaining that MPs are “treated like shit” shows the Conservative MP holds different views in private than he does in public. Alan Duncan is very fond of speaking a good [...]

David Cameron’s sweary outburst on the radio this morning has the unmistakable hallmarks of a media strategy about it. In an attempt to sound “edgy” – and presumably because the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show hits the numbskull demographic that Cameron’s advisers want to hit this week - the 42-year-old, Eton-educated Tory leader was heard to say the word ”twat”. (Audio here.) The whole thing [...]

As a conscientious citizen of Stockport, and since nobody else seems to have bothered themselves much with the subject, I thought I’d have a look at Stockport MP Ann Coffey’s expenses, as revealed last week, to see if I could find anything interesting. The Manchester Evening News has already mentioned something about curtains and a [...]

Here’s a link to a photo of the anti-BNP protest that’s taking place at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester as I type. One question: Why, when the election was last week and two of the racist twats have already been elected? Actually, here’s another one: Isn’t the idea of protesting against the outcome of a democratic [...]

James Purnell. You know, the “sideburned schmoozer”, as the Sunday Telegraph calls him. Apparently he’s resigned from the Cabinet. But think about it. Was this bloke ever actually in the Cabinet? We’re toldhe was work and pensions secretary. Was he? I think we’re taking a hell of a lot at face value here. I never recall actually [...]

There’s something inescapably awful about the latest Conservative election broadcast, which essentially consists of David Cameron saying the words “Cameron Direct” a lot while prancing about, pointing a lot and occasionally sitting on a train. I’ve checked and it’s not a parody but I’ve still watched it about six times on YouTube since it was [...]

I’ve just spotted Stephen Fry talking a load of arse, poo and widdle (bollocks, in other words) about the issue of MPs’ expenses on Newsnight (video clip here). According to Fry, MPs doing things like claiming £2,000 of public money to have the moats of their manor houses cleaned (Douglas Hogg), or £35,000 for a “second home” [...]