Ahh, the good old days of the gentlemen spy: bowler hats, poison-tipped umbrellas, cigarette cases and, best of all, no David Shayler. What’s made us all misty-eyes for the golden years of espionage? The discovery of a KGB ‘spy’s guide to London’ in the latest …
When the outgoing Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, Brian Sedgemore began a speech on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill in Parliament on Wednesday with “As this will almost certainly be my last speech in Parliament, I shall try hard not to upset anyone”, …
We never thought we’d miss David Blunkett but we’re sorry to say that new Home Secretary Charles Clarke makes us look back on the fuzzy faced fascist with renewed longing. Say what you will about Blunkett but at least his guide dog liked him. Mr …
If you live in Harrow, Hammersmith or Fulham beware…Uri Geller’s son might be knocking on my door to try and persuade you to vote Tory. Today’s Independent carries an interview with Daniel Geller who is apparently “disturbed by modern manners and baseball-cap mores,” and wants …
Sometime on Sunday evening Hunter S Thompson took his own life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado. That’s as far away from London as you can imagine but we feel that we would be lacking as writers …
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Today a list of the Prime Ministers dinner guests was released after Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb requested it under the Freedom of Information Act, as part of his “campaign to secure greater openness in government“. Yeah, right. Not an opportunity to make Tony Blair …
There’s an election coming, and regardless of where your politics may lie, it does at least mean the return of the always entertaining election poster. Distilling complex political theory down into a single slogan or image may seem way too complex to achieve but luckily …
Within the next few weeks Parliament is to become a strictly no smoking zone. By Easter time MPs, staff and visitors will all be barred from lighting up in Westminster Palace and even a sneaky bifter in the the Strangers’ Bar will be out of …
Londonist’s attention was caught today by an article in the Times headlined London – A Sad MP’s Guide. But, don’t be fooled, this isn’t an article written by some Tory backbencher, detailing his travels around the backstreets of Soho (if only). No, instead this is …
Failed military coup enthusiast Mark Thatcher is back in London after being fined £265,000, and has run back into the scaly arms of his mother Baroness Thatcher. Mark was intending to head home to his wife and kids in the U.S. but ran into a …
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