Pragmatist

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

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 ...

Some prescient remarks, made in the context of political donations, which apply more directly to the cash-for-amendments scandal but also s...

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...

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...