I missed this story in the Independent about Charles Falconer, Lord Chancellor and head of the Department of Constitutional Affairs, rejec...

Robin Butley writes: It looks as if the chumps on Labour’s Europhobe wing have decided to join up with the Tories and the xenophobe right ...

Some more trivia I've not seen, or not seen teased out. The last time a party won a parliamentary majority with less than 40 per cent of...

Maybe I've missed someone else pointing this out, but pre-Blair Labour had a majority greater than 66 only twice: 1945 and 1966. In term...

I can't keep up with him. Harry , I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability. All of you.

A couple of people have emailed to say I’ve got it wrong about the latest Galloway allegations and that it really is about him personally po...

I've been convinced of the case for proportional representation for a long time, and I'm heartened that yesterday evening's Make...

And yet another thing. I agree with Harry that this isn't primarily about Galloway personally trousering large wads of wonga. The quest...

And another thing . . . As Harry notes here , contrary to Galloway's claims, the gorgeous one was not completely vindicated by the Chari...

Must-have download of the day is the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ report on George Galloway and Charles Pasqua, avail...

There has been a lot of speculation since I last posted on this – much of it wishful thinking, whether by Blair's enemies, who want him...

Socialism in an Age of Waiting respond to my previous posts on the election by raising the possibility of the Tories attempting to get out o...

Just to back up my point about the decline of Labour’s backbench rebel army, I’ve had a quick once through my clippings to identify the MPs ...

Lots of froth in the Sundays on the election. But John Rentoul makes a lot of sense in the Independent on Sunday (online but you have to pa...

The fact that Labour has a smaller majority in the House of Commons obviously changes the terms of trade between the government and the parl...

The Guardian has a good report today by Alan Travis ( here ) that contradicts my claim (click here ) that the Tories haven’t created too ma...

Apart from the dismal Tory performance, the big story of the election is how well the Liberal Democrats have done. They have 62 seats in the...

By far the best thing about the election result is just how badly the Tories have done. In terms of their overall share of the vote, they ha...

With the exception of Bethnal Green and Bow, nothing that hurts. But the campaign to get rid of Galloway starts now.