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“Champagne and lychee juice reception”

David Cameron is such a man of the people. The Sunday Times reports that earlier this week
the Conservative leader hosted a champagne and lychee juice reception for City donors in the back garden of his North Kensington home.
Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? If Dave ever becomes PM, we can presumably expect pomegranate juice cocktails and [...]

Car tax: A sandal-wearing lefty gets irate

Is it possible to write about motoring taxes without coming across like white van man or a Clarksonite right-wing boor? I consider myself part of the muesli-eating, Guardian-reading carrier bag-recyling liberal set but I’m up for a challenge, so lets find out.
So Gordon Brown, in his wisdom, wants to increase road tax - or vehicle [...]

Piers ‘n’ Dylan: Friends o’ politicians

I was unfortunate enough to pick up a copy of the Mail on Sunday supplement Live from the seat of a train yesterday. I instantly regretted the act because it caused me to stumble across two of Britain’s smuggest men engaging in a feast of political name-dropping.
In the inside back cover is Piers Morgan, “Columnist [...]

Boris Johnson smells

If Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Wankbiscuit Johnson wins today, would the last person to leave London please turn out the light? (To paraphrase the Sun.) Obviously, it would help with the carbon footprint. Not that Boris knows what one of those is.
How come only Londoners get to vote, anyway? It’s my London too! I’ve been [...]

Nick Clegg: Statesman, icon, “yummy wife”…

There’s a nice, unintentionally hilarious interview with Lib Dem leadership candidate Nick Clegg in the Observer today. The author, Jasper Gerard, admits he is a Liberal and “unabashed supporter” of Clegg. All of which becomes abundantly clear quite quickly.
Near the top, for example, there’s a shameless attempt to merge the image of Clegg with that [...]

Brown: Worse than the Other One

I fear Gordon Brown may be even worse than Tony Blair. His penchant for spin and adherence to short-term gain at the expense of long term vision has become depressingly obvious in the last few weeks, especially the last fortnight.
The problem is especially marked given that Brown initially tried to paint himself as a man [...]

Cameron “whines like schoolboy” shocker

An amazing revelation in today’s Observer. Apparently, David Cameron has been “whining like a schoolboy” about the Daily Mirror’s coverage of the Conservatives. He’d requested a clear the air meeting with the Mirror’s editor, Richard Wallace, which backfired when Cameron and his flunkeys decided to compare the paper’s coverage with that of Neil Kinnock in [...]