What the fuck's a cholet? Reading cookbooks is perhaps my main hobby but I've never heard of it. Aubergine Parmigiana is bloody lovely. Sorry, its actually a Cholent (I've no idea what that is either). In my defence I have just drunk a whole bottle of Lambrini (what that says about my politics I sh...

The favourite food section on that YouGov site is fab: UKIP - Steak & Kidney Pudding Labour - Vegetarian Cholet Conservatives - Veal Escalope (roasted swan wasn't an option, presumably) LibDems - Aubergine Parmigiana Are we really all such massive cliches? What the fuck's a cholet? Reading cook...

The favourite food section on that YouGov site is fab:

UKIP - Steak & Kidney Pudding
Labour - Vegetarian Cholet
Conservatives - Veal Escalope (roasted swan wasn't an option, presumably)
LibDems - Aubergine Parmigiana

Are we really all such massive cliches?

Here's a decent article by Mary Riddell on the plot that never was: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11223571/Labour-agitators-bear-the-stink-of-failure-not-Ed-Miliband.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; And Cameron's reaction to the Wanless report yest...

Eric Pickles is to take over direct control of Tower Hamlets after receiving a report by PwC. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/04/eric-pickles-tower-hamlets-london-borough" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Pickles says: “a deeply concerning picture of obfuscation, ...

Good article. Hideous comments BTL - but to be expected. Fair pay as a way of reducing poverty and the reliance on benefits / tax credits should be something understood as much more positive than the current situation by most people - surely? Or am I ridiculously naive? Isn't now - with the HMRC pr...

Scandalously low pay should not be the new normal A living wage is the kind of policy people expect from Labour, but is Ed Miliband letting it slip away? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/04/low-pay-living-wage-labour-ed-miliband Good article. Hideous comments BTL - but to be expect...

Blimey. I don't remember that happening in Wales when we were the first to have the 5p bag levy. :lol: :lol: :lol: It did though. We had weeks of there being no baskets at all in the Cardigan Tesco ... all stolen in lieu of a free bag. But it stopped pdq - people must have come to their senses. We ...

Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams · 8h 8 hours ago A loud bang could be heard as the defendant fainted in the dock and was attended to by prison officers. http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Pregnant-mum-jailed-Plymouth-Magistrates-son-s/story-23802546-detail/story.html" onclick="window.open(this.h...

I've only just seen this, although it's dated yesterday, so sorry if already posted somewhere else. The Mail has finally reported all of the rumours and allegations about Leon Brittan, although in such a way as to suggest an MI5 smear (as Private Eye claimed 30 years ago). Whether that's just to pro...

Did anyone catch a Beeb report on police cautions this morning? Something to do with a Grayling announcement..... The BBC has written it up: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29859758" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; As far as I am aware this was never mentioned prior to today ye...

Leon Brittan finally named in Parliament, in a strange roundabout sort of way.

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yahyah wrote:ExaroNews @ExaroNews · 2h 2 hours ago
#CSAinquiry to cover ONLY England and Wales. So, Kincora (Northern Ireland), Jersey, etc are excluded from terms of reference.


Anything to stop the dots being joined.

It's like they don't even care whether it looks like a cover up any more.

Danczuk calls for Fiona Woolf to stand down after her letter about contacts with the Brittans. Is there a copy of this letter anywhere (I can't listen to the BBC clip. as I'm at work). Edited to add: Just seen the tweets on Exaro spelling it all out. I should have gone there first rather than waste...

The Telegraph is appalled to discover that the "British Values" rules brought in as a result of the Trojan Horse scandal are now being used against Christian schools that fail to promote inclusivity, and not just those nasty Muslims, as they presumably imagined they would be. It really wou...

http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2014/10/07/richard-nabavi-asks-would-ed-face-a-coup-a-few-months-after-a-labour-victory/ " If Ed does become PM, it will be by default, on the back of the core Labour vote, disgruntled ex-LibDems, and division amongst his opponents. " :m...

Tristram Hunt kicks Cameron's big fat ass. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/04/tristram-hunt-all-david-cameron-has-left-is-abuse" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; That reads and sounds like it has been a long time coming. Belly full of fire. Good. Maybe he ha...

Tristram Hunt kicks Cameron's big fat ass.

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This morning it was Ed Sheeran, now Sol Campbell is backing the Tories and standing up for the rights of multi millionaire football players to live in their massive mock tudor mansions free from the grasping hands of the tax man. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11134153/Sol-Campbell-may-wor...

QT tonight: David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Northampton. On the panel are Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps MP, Labour's shadow business minister Stella Creasy MP, Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert, Fleet Street Fox blogger and Mirror columnist Susie Boniface and the founder and...

This is quite an intersting article, trying to explain why the Tories appear so confident that they're going to win next year, despite every poll for the past four years screaming the exact opposite (and why they're wrong). http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/10/history-gives-tories-confidence...

Nick Clegg is very very cross this morning as Teresa May has been going around saying horrid things about him at the Tory party Conference, and it's just totally not fair! Apparently he has responded with a "very strong" letter demanding an apology, which I imagine is probably being passed...

Day 3 of being unable to post on The Guardian. I'm starting to sweat and shake uncontrollably. If I can't post for a week does that mean I'm cured? Morning. I think you'll need twice as long before you feel better / normal. But the 'cure' or not should probably apply to the G rather than you. If Be...

As well as the damage another Tory government would do to the country as a whole, I think the left wing critics pushing the "Labour are just the same, there's no point voting for them" line need to face up to what will happen to Labour if they do lose this election. It won't just be Ed Mil...

Here's an article that manages to be both inspiring and depressing at the same time. A group of single mums who took on the London council that tried to evict them and make them move to Birmingham, won their fight, but who are now living in squalid private rented accommodation while 600 ex-council h...

It seems that Andrew Mitchell wasn't quite the poor victim of malicious police officers that some of his friends have been desperate to portray him as. According to lawyers for The Sun he had a history of abusing the police officers who were meant to be protecting him. http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Hello Tish - been missing you. I agree with pretty much all you say here. But whilst there may be some remaining Lib Dem members who still hold true to some of their former priorities and principles ... the yellow jellies they've got as ministers and mps seem to be perfectly able to forget about th...

I've been keeping out of the whole Scottish independence thing, because its felt like an argument that isn't really anything to do with me, as a Welsh person living in England, and I've felt like I don't really know enough about the ins and outs of Scottish politics to stick my oar in (I've only bee...

StephenDolan wrote:DFH on maaaaarvelous form today. One of these days I'm expecting him to announce it was all done tongue in cheek.

About a week after Ed Milliband becomes Prime Minister probably, once he's stopped sitting in his bedroom crying.

Irene Short ‏@ipasho 1h Osborne issuing#poison pill guidance 2ensure fraudulent profiteers like G4S&Serco paid millions if next govt end contracts#insults democracy Haven't had time to check this out yet...But typical. Anything to make Labour look bad when they have to clean up the mess the Coa...

Even by the Guardian's recent standards, this is totally fucking pathetic.

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