Wednesday 7th May 2008…
David Cameron (Leader of the Opposition; Witney, Conservative)
He [Gordon Brown] sits in No. 10 Downing street waiting for Shakira to call and waiting for George Clooney to come to tea. I have got a bit of advice for him: why does he not give up the PR and start being a PM?
Hansard
Friday [...]

After Iain Dale’s endorsement of this rather pathetic and cheesy Boris-themed video…
I thought it time I gave him an example of how to really put a humorous political video mashup together and so, with no small amount of assistance from the might Jarvis Cocker and a touch of help from Riot Squad right at the [...]

Having mentioned Nick Davis’s book ‘Flat Earth News’ and his concept of ‘churnalism’ – the verbatim or near verbatim reproduction of wire reports and press releases without referencing their source – one might also note than some bloggers are by no means averse to indulging is such practices. In fact there’s a particularly fine [...]

With the Christmas festivities safely concluded, I’ve decided to take a little time out from some truly excellent Christmas reading – Christopher Hitchens’ “Portable Atheist” is well worth the investment in book tokens – to tackle one of the most risible pieces of hypocritical political sophistry I’ve seen in some considerable time…
…Iain Dale’s ‘campaign‘ for [...]

Without naming names, a quick scan of some of the chatter in the feminist blogosphere appear to indicate that David Cameron’s speech on rape has actually gone down rather well – or the very least he’s managed to produce the right of soundbites for that market but, if you look a little more closely at [...]

Only yesterday, Tom Watson raised an interesting query about David Cameron’s entry on the parliamentary register of member’s interests.
What Tom noted was this rather curious entry:
To facilitate my travel in my capacity as Leader of the Opposition since December 2005 I have received helicopter and private plane travel from the following:
JCB Research Ltd
Jonathan Green retired [...]

It appears I might have done David Cameron a disservice in suggesting that about half the couples who would be likely to benefit from his plans to ‘recognise’ marriage in the tax system would be those who don’t have dependent children – because looking at the detail of what IDS’s policy group are proposing what [...]

It says much about the intellectual depth – or lack thereof – of David Cameron’s keynote speech to the Tory Conference, this week, that I’ve had to go and dig out a transcript to find out what he actually said to find out if it included any meaningful political or policy content.
The fact is that [...]