The smallest things can have the biggest influence on a political career. If then Labour Leader Michael Foot had put a different coat on that day he went to the Cenotaph, perhaps he would have become Prime Minister. His crime, ...

The inquest into the death of Alexia Walenkaki began today, 11th April – and was immediately adjourned until 16th January 2017. The last minute delay came because police needed more time to obtain expert evidence – and to follow up ...

Roman Road market is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays – and the Council has just announced that fresh food stalls will be joining the market on Saturdays. Roman Road is a traditional East London street market and most traders ...

Causing the trouble today is Ian Hislop. Usually thought to favour the Tories, the editor of Private Eye here takes on Tory MP Priti Patel (now Minister of State for Employment) on the question of capital punishment. Justine Roberts gives ...

Osborne warned us, in effect, that this week’s budget will be a shocker when he announced earlier this week that he is aiming to cut public spending by half by 2020. He thought cuts on this scale would be necessary ...

David Cameron has announced that Muslim men and women who come to the UK on a five year spousal visa to join their wife or husband will, half way through the visa, have to prove that their English is improving ...

The death has been announced of David Bowie, one of the giants of music who first found fame in the 1970s. It has been revealed that he had been living with cancer for 18 months. The shock is all the ...

“I was stupid [and] there’s no fool like an old fool,” said Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale after apologising unreservedly for his “inappropriate” behaviour” in sending sexually inappropriate text messages to a 17 year old woman. Within minutes rather than ...

Emdad Rahman What better way to spend a day in December to burn off those holiday calories than climbing and leaping from tree to tree? It is with exactly this in mind that a visit was planned to the latest Go ...

Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse Jim Fitzpatrick issued two statements on his activities in the second half of this month – both dealing with slaughter. First, Fitzpatrick issued a statement explaining why he had voted, on 3rd December, for ...