Pragmatist

The good citizens of Wales must be very afraid. On the very day the government re-announced the last government's "Equality Strate...

All the squealing from MPs about the harshness of their new expenses rules - not to mention the odd high profile resignation - suggests to...

Here are my takeaways from the Spectator Business breakfast debate, sponsored by DLA Piper in the City this morning. The issue was whether ...

Isn't it reassuring to see the piggies back from yet more holiday, fighting every effort to have their snouts hauled out of the trough ...

If you aren't thoroughly disillusioned with UK politics and hell-bent on doing something about it, I don't know how much more mayhe...

I've just seen some patronising rubbish in the Spectator about concern over MP's expenses being overkill and somehow bad for the Br...

It's been a mad week, with my spare time absorbed by an article on the behavioural targeting of internet advertising and responding to...

How smug and complacent it is for MPs to suggest that a politically manageable Quango act as the arbiter of their "standards" . Th...

Last night I attended the lecture by Professor Jonathan Zittrain on " The Future of the Internet: Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace ...

It's a feeble institution that allows itself to come to this.

Surprise, surprise: the MPs' suggestion for keeping their own noses out of the trough is to create another Quango ( number 191 ). The...

For every scandal there seems to be an heroic whistleblower working tirelessly to expose the thing, ignored by all in authority. For the MPs...