Nadine Dorries facing standards investigation

Half a million for the transition team

Cameron apologies to MPs for getting his facts wrong
Last week at Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron attacked the government over allegations that Preventing Violent Extremism money was being used to fund two schools with links to Islamist group Hizb-tu-Tahrir. The Spectator hailed his performance as ‘inspired’ and ‘a clear win’. Only problem was that he and his chum Comedy Michael Gove hadn’t been quite as clever as they had thought. As the BBC reported yesterday: “Conservative leader David Cameron has apologised to MP

Even Dan Hannan opposes the ban on minarets
Is it still committing heresy to link favourably to right wing Tory MEP Daniel Hannan? Ah well, I was never going to be invited to the Cool Kids’ table anyway: The decision by Swiss voters to outlaw the construction of minarets strikes me as regrettable on three grounds. First, it is at odds with that other guiding Swiss principle, localism: issues of this kind ought surely to be settled town by town, or at least canton by canton, not by a national ban. Second, it is disproportionate. There may be argume

Demjanjuk trial: for the historical record
John Demjanjuk – currently standing trial in Munich, accused of complicity in the murder of 27,900 Jews at Sobibor concentration camp in world war two – is 89 years old and apparently in failing health. Let’s work on the basis that he really did do the wicked things of which he is accused; the prosecution is seemingly confident of its case, even almost 70 years after the killings took place. Is justice really served by putting Demjanjuk in the dock? That’s the question Holocaust historian David Ceserani asks

The most difficult job in the world
Imagine you land a job where you get paid £161-50 a day for each day you turn up (even if you stay for, like, 20 minutes) plus £86.50 a day for food, drink and taxis, and an additional £75 for office costs, without producing a single receipt. And you can’t resign even if you wanted to. What sort of workplace would let you do that? Some people would tell you that your boss is either a saint or an idiot of the highest degree. Everyone at work takes the piss and the whole shop functions like a joke, with average attendance rates standing at just over 50%. Until one day, under pressure from auditors, the board, or sheer financial hardship, your gaffer decides to see se

Labour should expel Frank Field MP
‘What we’ve go to do here is get people to understand it’s not a referendum it’s a choice and as a choice it has consequences,’ said Sean Woodward MP at the Labour party conference. And the fast emerging electoral strategy, as reflected by Labour Matters, is all about ensuring that the voters see the clear blue water between Labour and the Tories. The focus, say the