Jacob Rees-Mogg and 'floccinaucinihilipilification'
by Caroline Crampton / 22 Feb 2012
Speaking in the Commons yesterday, Jacob Rees-Mogg once again showed off his eccentric and enormous vocabulary
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Weekend reads | 17 February
by Caroline Crampton / 17 Feb 2012
Recommendations for the best long-form writing you should be reading this weekend
Tony Lloyd MP to run as Manchester police commissioner
by Caroline Crampton / 14 Feb 2012
The chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party is to hand his nomination papers to the Labour Party today
Up with women, down with ‘golden skirts’
by Caroline Crampton / 09 Feb 2012
The prime minister’s interest in Scandinavian gender equality laws is good, but we need to avoid importing the Scandinavian opposition’s derogatory language with it
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Dickens’s Parliament is oddly familiar
by Caroline Crampton / 07 Feb 2012
He might be celebrated as a novelist, but Dickens started off as a parliamentary sketch writer, and Parliament in his day sounds remarkably similar to it is now
What’s the point of the House of Lords?
by Caroline Crampton / 02 Feb 2012
With the government seeking to strike out the Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill with the financial privilege instrument, we’re left wondering what authority the Lords has left
Purely academic
by Caroline Crampton / 01 Feb 2012
Schools minister Nick Gibb is a man on a mission to close the gap between rich and poor in the education system. In between battling the ideologues, he’s making quiet progress on the coalition’s extension of the academy programme, finds Caroline Crampton
When is a treaty not a treaty?
by Caroline Crampton / 31 Jan 2012
David Cameron attempts to reassure MPs that he's protected British interests in Europe, but his insistence on the difference between a treaty and an agreement is hard to follow
Friday's terrible Twitter tedium
by Caroline Crampton / 27 Jan 2012
Lots of MPs use social media to great effect the rest of the week. Why does it all go wrong on Fridays?
A long-overdue PMQs success for Ed Miliband
by Caroline Crampton / 25 Jan 2012
The Labour leader pulled off a noticeably improved PMQs performance with the help of some disappointing GDP figures
Lansley plays hide and seek at health questions
by Caroline Crampton / 21 Feb 2012
The health secretary lets his ministerial team bear the brunt of the attacks on the Health and Social Care bill
Charlie Brooker's Sun poem
by Caroline Crampton / 16 Feb 2012
Brooker's rhyming list of things or people The Sun has 'witch-hunted' is worth a watch
Weekend reads | 10 February
by Caroline Crampton / 10 Feb 2012
Recommendations for the best long-form writing you should be reading this weekend
Time to stamp out the trolls, says MP
by Caroline Crampton / 08 Feb 2012
Online bullying and abuse is widely acknowledged to be a serious problem, but a nightmare for prosecutors. Steve Rotheram MP is determined to make sure justice gets done
Huhne charged over speeding penalty claims
by Caroline Crampton / 03 Feb 2012
The energy and climate secretary is to face charges over allegations that his ex-wife took speeding points on his behalf
No more 'Top Totty' in Parliament?
by Caroline Crampton / 02 Feb 2012
Kate Green MP has called for a beer called 'Top Totty' to be removed from sale in Strangers' Bar
Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthood
by Caroline Crampton / 31 Jan 2012
Former RBS chief executive is stripped of his knighthood by the forfeiture committee
Weekend reads | 27 Jan 2012
by Caroline Crampton / 27 Jan 2012
Recommentations of the best long-form writing you should be reading this weekend
Bill Cash: ‘I call myself a eurorealist rather than a eurosceptic’
by Caroline Crampton / 26 Jan 2012
Ahead of an unusual Commons debate on Europe, Caroline Crampton talks to eurosceptic champion Bill Cash MP
Cable’s quartet of measures on executive pay
by Caroline Crampton / 23 Jan 2012
The business secretary this afternoon set out the government’s measures to curb excessive executive pay
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