Should we find the reports a bit scary? There’s a new book out which reports that Dave is a frequent follower of “political betting websites” which he comes to for polling analysis. While PB is not mentioned specifically this is [...]

It turns out that Twitter had not turned this photo released by the White House yesterday into a meme. . . With some time to waste, I thought I’d do the job myself. Twitter, I’m really disappointed this Cameron pic hasn’t been turned [...]

The report which Fraser mentioned last week, from the 2020 Tax Commission, has just been published - you can download the summary here and full report here. Allister Heath, chairman of the commission and a contributing editor of The Spectator, [...]

Heathrow Airport's passport control already offers a notorious welcome to Britain, but Gatwick is now offering hot competition. Gatwick Express, the rail artery connecting the airport to London, installed new ticket gates at the airport a few months ago ending [...]

Does Suzi Leather have good karma? By which I don’t mean, in the wishy-washy Western sense, “Is she a good person?” (I suspect we all have our views on that). I mean something that’s rather more important: namely, how long [...]

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 274th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (13-19 May, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, [...]

The little taxi bumped around the backstreets of Tripoli all morning. First we were sent one way and then the other. A cousin had a friend who lived in the right neighbourhood. But he sent us back to another taxi [...]

I realise these are deep waters – and that even making a compliment about a religious group can attract its own squad of supersensitive racism detectors. But still… Sacha Baron Cohen is quite exceptional as the lead in The Dictator, [...]

Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past few days… Lord Ashdown and Lord Phillips in Lords reform clash (BBC News) Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown has clashed with one of his party [...]

Will Jeremy Hunt still be a cabinet minister in a month’s time? Yes – Hunt will still be in the cabinet on June 20th No – he will have left before then    pollcode.compollcode.com7 free [...]

contribution by Tom Newham Theresa May might be at pains to persuade us a draft of the Communications Bill isn’t the sort of ‘snoopers charter’ the last government proposed, but she hasn’t yet extended the courtesy of explaining what it might [...]

This photo has just been released by the White House from the Camp David summit. What do you suppose Obama is saying? “Cameron, you farted again didn’t [...]

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Ken Clarke, the Justice Secretary, and famously one of the most Europhile voices in the Party, has said that Greece is "quite likely" to leave the Eurozone. Considering the possibility of Greece electing one of the [...]

Tomorrow, the 2020 Tax Commission, a joint effort between the Institute of Directors (IoD) and the so-called Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA), chaired by TPA stooge Allister Heath, will present its final report. This is, as of now, embargoed. But we already [...]

On Juncture, the website of the Institute of for Public Policy Research, psephologist Professor John Curtice provides some very interesting data which suggests Labour would do well to keep talking to the Liberal Democrats: …the hung parliament brought about by the [...]

Analysis of "Acropolis Now!" in the 50p #DailyStarSunday, No. 11s Big Mac growth strategy, we reveal Jeremy Hunt's new SpAd plus lots more— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) May 20, 2012 Tagged: Dead Tree Press [...]

The publication of the Beecroft report on Thursday is a big moment for the coalition. The Lib Dems have long been dismissive of it but it is now a crucial part of any coalition grand bargain on growth. In recent [...]

All week, I’ve been casting grumpy glances at the sky. It’s late May, for Heaven’s sake; yet, for seven weeks, we’ve had rain almost every day. The European Parliament rose on Wednesday this week, and I’ve been doing constituency events [...]

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Every boy and every girl, That's born into the world alive... There are as many ideas about what politics is as there are people to conceive them, but here are two.  The first is that the [...]

The full tables for the YouGov/Sunday Times poll are now up here, asking mostly about the Eurozone crisis. Looking at the regular leader trackers, David Cameron is on minus 30 (from minus 29 last week) and Ed Miliband is on minus [...]