Fred the Shred's degonging isn't anti-business
JAMES CHAPMAN: The feeble argument being made in some quarters that the removal of the knighthood is somehow anti-business also cuts no ice. If anything, it’s a pro-business measure.
View ArticleGeorge Galloway and why Ed Miliband must now pray Ken Livingstone wins London
JAMES CHAPMAN: The best Labour can do is dismiss this result as the product of celebrity, a one-off with no national resonance. But it certainly ups the stakes of the London mayoral election.
View ArticleEd Miliband local elections: Labour leader is finding his mojo
JAMES CHAPMAN: The Labour leader's advisers are convinced he has found his medium: freewheeling question and answer sessions with members of the public.
View ArticleThe Bodge-it: 'There's a recognition a Budget can't be done this way ever...
JAMES CHAPMAN: Four weeks to the day since the Chancellor’s disastrously received statement, such is the multitude of horrors it contained that the Government appears unable to move on.
View ArticleSorry, Samantha Brick: I don't want Mary Beard to brush her hair
JAMES CHAPMAN: Professor Mary Beard, whose series on the Romans has been quite the best thing on the BBC for years, is declared not sufficiently well-groomed for our screens.
View ArticleAt last! David Cameron is listening to his backbenches: on gay marriage,...
JAMES CHAPMAN: It has become an accepted Westminster wisdom that David Cameron is hopelessly detached from his backbenches - but it isn't really true.
View ArticleMajority of MPs back renaming of Big Ben Clock Tower as Elizabeth Tower for...
JAMES CHAPMAN: The tower housing Big Ben will be renamed ‘The Elizabeth Tower’ in honour of the Queen’s six decades on the throne under plans backed tomorrow by the majority of MPs.
View ArticleConservative MPs plot revenge for Nick Clegg's 'treachery' over Jeremy Hunt
JAMES CHAPMAN: Be in no doubt, Nick Clegg’s decision to withdraw support for Jeremy Hunt will have profound implications for the coalition. There is real anger tonight on the Conservative backbenches.
View ArticleCameron's 'differentiation' strategy has both merits and dangers
JAMES CHAPMAN: The ideas being floated by Mr Cameron have prompted entirely predictable Lib Dem unease and faintly absurd claims from the left that they mark the ‘end of compassionate conservatism’.
View ArticleDavid Cameron must order a judge-led public inquiry into our banks
JAMES CHAPMAN: The case for a public inquiry, led by a senior judge, into the activities of the banks was powerful before today. It is now overwhelming.
View ArticleEurope referendum: David Cameron has smashed the lid off the Conservatives'...
JAMES CHAPMAN: Such is the toxicity of Europe in Conservative ranks, that saying something unclear is worse than saying nothing at all.
View ArticleLords reform has left relations between David Cameron and Nick Clegg at a...
JAMES CHAPMAN: Tonight’s votes on reform of the House of Lords (if, as looks increasingly unlikely, both go ahead) will, almost whatever the outcome, prompt an unprecedented outpouring of bad blood.
View ArticleThe Coalition: The love-in that became a marriage of convenience
JAMES CHAPMAN: The Coalition is entering its most precarious and volatile phase. The event of a Commons defeat on House of Lords reform has been postponed, perhaps averted
View ArticleIs the coalition really more radical than the Thatcher and Blair governments?
JAMES CHAPMAN: Following the Coalition claims yesterday, we audit the achievements the Prime Minister and his deputy chose to discuss yesterday
View ArticleUkip advert star Andre Lampitt attacks 'evil' Islam and says Africans should...
Zimbabwean decorator Andre Lampitt posed in a builder's hard hat in a broadcast, but on Twitter called the Prophet Mohammed a 'paedophile'.
View ArticleGeorge Osborne to crack down on market rigging and rogue traders
In his Mansion House speech, the Chancellor will announce plans for new criminal sanctions designed to clean up the City, which has been the subject of a series of investigations following allegations...
View Article'Iraq chaos is Tony Blair's legacy' claims Home Office Minister
The collapse of Iraq and the impending disaster was last night branded as 'Tony Blair's legacy' after the former Prime Minister, left, agreed to George W Bush's middle east war, left
View ArticleFeckless parents may be stripped of their benefits under new plans
Consevative MP Margot James, pictured, has proposed that benefits should be docked from feckless parents who refuse to take classes on how to improve their children’s discipline, diet and exercise.
View ArticleEU is 'sleepwalkign into a crisis' warns senior diplomat who believes...
A leaked document said Ivan Rogers, the UK’s permanent representative to the EU, believes the ‘die is cast’ in favour of Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, pictured.
View ArticleMichael Gove's top ally Dominic Cummings blasts 'bumbling' PM
Dominic Cummings, pictured, was Mr Gove’s right-hand man for years until he left the Government in January and is still close to the Education Secretary.
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