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Book review: Lloyd George, Statesman or Scoundrel
18 April 2018
As you walk through the Members Lobby in the House of Commons the outer doors to the Chamber are...
James Graham turns to Westminster insiders for help with Brexit TV drama
12 April 2018
More than a year after he lifted the lid on plans for a TV drama about the EU referendum campaign,...
Ed Vaizey prepares to take to the stage for trial of King Richard III
6 April 2018
A Conservative MP is to help decide whether King Richard III is guilty of murdering his heirs,...
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Book review: Enemies Within
20 March 2018
This book has been published at a time when the news has been dominated by allegations concerning...
Politics on the small screen: the verdict on the BBC's Collateral
19 February 2018
From its debut last week, when a pizza delivery boy was murdered on the doorstep of a customer who...
Book review: Fighters and Quitters
9 February 2018
In the age of Brexit, it can be easy to forget that politics is occasionally an exhilarating...
Book review: Behind Diplomatic Lines
6 February 2018
There is a certain irony that diplomats who wish to publish diaries or memoirs frequently have a...
Whisky with Thatcher and other tales in new BBC series
2 February 2018
“It was friendship, it was a good friendship. I became fond of her,” says former cabinet secretary...
Book review: Exceeding My Brief, Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant
30 January 2018
Perhaps it is the cynical age in which we live but there is something rather shocking about an...
MPs and critics lap up Gary Oldman's portryal of Winston Churchill
15 January 2018
To capture Winston Churchill’s trademark rasp, Gary Oldman claims that he smoked 12 cigars a day...
Keith Simpson's Christmas 2017 reading list
12 December 2017
Over the past few weeks as the EU (Withdrawal) Bill grinds its way slowly through the Chamber of...
Nick Clegg’s book bags top prize in Parliamentary Book Awards
5 December 2017
Nick Clegg and Harriet Harman have been announced as the big winners of the second Parliamentary...
Donald Trump and Theresa May dominate at political cartoon of the year awards
24 November 2017
While his successor was handling the Budget fallout former chancellor George Osborne handed out the...
Book review: Hearts and Minds
15 November 2017
Oliver Letwin is a Conservative Party national treasure. Intelligent, charming, witty, graceful and...
Book review: Coalition Diaries 2012-2015
19 October 2017
David Laws was a senior Lib Dem policy adviser, MP and Coalition minister. To his...
Quentin Letts pens book on finger-wagging elites… but doesn’t include Paul Dacre
12 October 2017
Eight years after his book on '50 People Who Buggered Up Britain', Daily Mail sketch writer Quentin...
Book review: Entitled
11 October 2017
Chris Bryant is a feisty Labour MP and former minister. He is also an author and his most recent...
Alan Partridge and Malcolm Tucker get set to debate Brexit
10 October 2017
Never mind the endless debates in the House of Commons about the intricacies of Brexit. The real...
Star Wars Emperor actor to play Enoch Powell
8 September 2017
A new play focussed on the controversial MP Enoch Powell will star Star Wars actor Ian McDiarmid in...
Gina Miller to write memoir about ‘a life in which I have rarely backed down’
25 August 2017
Leading anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller is writing a memoir that will be a "rallying cry" for...
Alan Partridge prepares to push out his political views… again
4 August 2017
In the aftermath of the 1992 general election, Alan Partridge claimed to be reluctant to disclose...
Oliver Letwin to write a book about how MPs learn from mistakes
21 July 2017
Oliver Letwin, whose career has been littered with embarrassing episodes, is to write a book about...
Beast of Bolsover gets the big screen treatment
18 July 2017
Dennis Skinner, the long serving MP known as the 'beast of Bolsover' is to be the subject of a...
Angela Eagle set to publish a book on the 'new serfdom' of working life
17 July 2017
Angela Eagle is working on a book looking that has already been dubbed "one of the most important...