Quentin Letts from Westminster: Swathed in purple faux fur, this new Lib Dem MP could have wandered into the Commons from a Courmayeur chalet bar

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 06:27 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Some people fear Artificial Intelligence. They fret about the lack of human touch, its robotic nature, the threat it may pose to our freedom.

After Southport, Westminster is floundering. It should look to Idris Elba | Martin Kettle

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 06:47 UTC

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The Home Office has some good ideas, but a documentary on knife crime by the actor offers the template for a new approach

The list of painful questions left behind for a wounded Britain by the trauma …

QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: As Sir Chris's two poached egg eyes gazed at us, all the misery of lockdown came rushing back

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 22:16 UTC

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Repeatedly Sir Chris and other witnesses begged MPs to keep the law on assisted dying 'clear and simple'. He added: 'The more ambiguity, the more difficult it becomes for patients and families'.

What are Parliament's bars really like?

found 2025 › Jan › 25 (Sat) @ 07:22 UTC

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Westminster's drinking culture is in the spotlight after a bar was closed over an alleged spiking incident.

The Week: Trump Returns, the EU and No to NIMBYs?

found 2025 › Jan › 24 (Fri) @ 19:41 UTC

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Adam, Chris, Vicki and James discuss the political week in Westminster, and beyond.

Norway’s oil fund places £306mn bet on Mayfair property

found 2025 › Jan › 22 (Wed) @ 12:58 UTC

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Duke of Westminster’s company Grosvenor sells stake in new £1.2bn joint venture in London’s West End

Affairs, plots, gropes and punch-ups: Strangers' Bar in Westminster is a notorious hotbed of outrageous behaviour. But even Commons insiders admit that the drink-spiking scandal could see its doors shut for good, reveals GLEN OWEN

found 2025 › Jan › 19 (Sun) @ 09:55 UTC

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Could incendiary new claims that an MP tried to use a date rape drug on its premises could finally give the authorities an excuse to shut the historic watering hole for ever?

Secret UK 'mini cabinet' tries to plan for unpredictable Trump

found 2025 › Jan › 19 (Sun) @ 09:55 UTC

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On security and on the economy, Westminster feels both worry and hope as Donald Trump heads back to the White House.

QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Wearing more make-up than Julian Clary, Sir Ed talked tough on Trump!

found 2025 › Jan › 17 (Fri) @ 05:40 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

He proposed to deny the incoming US president any white-tie dinner with the Royal Family.

QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: The Tories talked of Shakespearean tragedy - but Rachel Reeves is an amazingly bad actor for a politician as she was quizzed over the markets meltdown

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 05:55 UTC

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No longer mistress of all she surveys, no longer empress of the horizon, Rachel Reeves crouched on the Commons front bench with a knot of her closest supporters. Six fretful souls at a bus stop.