Westminster
Ancient & Modern: the rumour mill
Geoffrey Dickens’s ancient dossier of (alleged) paedophiles in high places cannot be found among the 138 miles of government files,…
David Cameron's misogynistic reshuffle
The PM doesn’t want the new women in his cabinet to do anything but look nice
What kind of idiot tries to stand in the way of a national child abuse panic? I do
As essay titles go, ‘On losing an argument with Tim Loughton MP’ may fail to catch the imagination; but there…
Portrait of a Guardian music critic
We critics seldom write our memoirs, perhaps because we skulk away our lives in dark corners, avoiding the public gaze,…
MPs grope men too
It’s not just the women who work at Westminster who can expect to receive unwelcome advances. I should know
Toby Young: Why I'm not going to be an MP
Damn and blast. I was quite keen on becoming the Conservative candidate for Hammersmith, but the timing isn’t going to…
Guido Fawkes to Damian McBride: Who's spinning now?
When Gordon Brown eventually became aware that his Downing Street was about to be engulfed in the Smeargate scandal, he…
When party leaders depart from the script, all hell breaks loose
It is within the experience of even the humblest of MPs that those who oppose what you do will berate…
