Royal Charter dying on press freedom day

According the The Sun’s Tom Netwton-Dunn the Royal Charter cooked up in a late night meeting with Hacked Off has been shelved. BREAKING: The Govt has withdrawn its Royal Charter on press regulation from the May 15 privy council meeting – for more talks...

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Lord Ashcroft isn’t happy with the Tory’s UKIP strategy

Congratulations to the “clowns” and “fruitcakes”!!! That worked!! — Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) May 3, 2013 Ouch.

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Wallace wins Wensleydale

Ed Miliband’s Labour Party have had a councillor elected in the Wensleydale ward of Northumberland County Council. Wensleydale is, of course, the favourite cheese of plasticine Miliband look-a-like Wallace. Put the kettle on Gromit, that victory needs...

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The party who should be most worried by today’s election result

Today much of the mainstream media is getting into a blather about UKIP, but there is another party who really needs to worry. We have heard next to nothing from the Greens, seemingly for months now. The post 2010 high point seems to have been a third...

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Lack of Sun endorsement today should terrify Cameron

The Sun, for the first polling day in 44 years, has chosen not to endorse an party. Instead, today’s editorial urges those voting in county council elections to “vote local”. They say: David Cameron’s Conservatives should be the best at getting value...

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Open Rights Group launch digital surveillance report – the fight for web freedom continues

The group assembled in Methodist Central Hall in Westminster on Monday probably thought that they would be coming together to rage against the growing snooper state. Then last week deputy prime minister Nick Clegg told LBC that the Communications Data...

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