How important will be BP's report into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, which is due to be published in the coming week or so? Well it certainly won't be the last word on the subject: BP faces [...]

PERSONAL STATEMENTIn order to avoid any unwelcome publicity, Mr Iain Dale (North Norfolk 2003-5) and Mr Ashley Crossley (Falmouth & Camborne 2003-5) wish to announce that they will be sharing a room for two nights at this year's Conservative Party [...]

Brighton & Hove City Council webcasts many of its meetings and makes the footage available for people to watch again afterwards. Cllr Jason Kitcat (Green) extracted from the footage examples of himself asking questions, put the footage on YouTube and [...]

At last a substantial issue has surfaced in the Labour leadership race. It's the deficit and how quickly Labour should pledge to cut spending to tackle it. Ed Balls has come out fighting against not just the coalition's policy but the [...]

Anyone remember when Lord John Prescott, class traitor of the highest order, went off on one in fits of rage at Andrew Rawnsley on Newsnight? If not you can watch it below.Essentially this now Peer of the Realm, went off [...]

This thread is for you to say what you think should be done about the deficit. How much do we need to cut the deficit by? When should we start cutting? Over how many years should we cut it? Let’s leave the detail of [...]

...Glad there isn't a General Election tomorrow. Even an old Leftie like me thinks this is lovely, enjoying the pride of the parents. Politically, I just hope she rebels when she grows up! [...]

Blair has been a busy bee this week, whipping the UK media into a frenzy over the release of his controversial memoir and whizzing over to Washington to attend negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.Here he is flashing the Secretary [...]

contribution by Chaminda Jayanetti I’ve published a comprehensive database of cuts announced so far to the Connexions youth service. Connexions provides universal information, advice and guidance to young people, and works with young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) [...]

Dear TonyFirst of all, allow me to congratulate you on the very successful publication of your memoirs; I bought some thirty copies for the various initiatives around the constituency of Sickle and Hammer East which had their genesis in your [...]

By Jonathan Isaby The Camerons did a photocall for the world's media on the steps of Downing Street this morning with their new daughter, Florence Rose Endellion. David Cameron released a brief statement, saying:"Samantha and I would like to take this opportunity [...]

contribution by Owen Tudor In less than three weeks, the UN will hold a review summit on the Millennium Development Goals (set in 2000, they are due to be achieved in 2015 so we ought to be two thirds of the [...]

In the middle of August we started a new feature on ConHome called Tories on Today, to record the appearances by Conservative politicians on Radio 4's Today programme. Yet this week's schedule shows that the scorers have barely been troubled, with [...]

The British historian Arnold Toynbee said ‘Civilisation is a movement, not a condition; a voyage, not a harbour’.It is tempting to take this maxim, apply it to Iran, and suggest that Iranian civilization is stuck in dry dock. This would [...]

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The divisive issue of immigration refuses to go away in Germany. A new book has caused outrage and approval.Thilo Sarrazin - a former Berlin Finance Minister - has set down a number of ideas which many people feel have Nazi [...]

I thought you might like to listen to the 35 minute phone in we did last night on LBC on the Hague story. We tried to concentrate on the free speech angle and asked if there should be limits to [...]

Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or [...]

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Well there’s Saturday’s front pages sorted: Aww. UPDATE: Hats off to Dizzy for the headline “Florence Meets the Machine”. Tagged: Dave [...]