Excellent post about how Parliament behaved over the Iraq war

Although my heart sank at the headline, this is actually quite a good piece at turning abstruse electoral reform arguments into an issue people can relate to.

A great summing up: "When it came to Iraq, Tony Blair was a combination of passionate conviction and cavalier disregard for detail. It was that fatal marriage which explains so much of what went so wrong."

Jan Moir receives a brutal fisking, in flagrante, from Charlie Brooker. It isn't being ghoulish to speculate that this sort of lifestyle choice may lead to a sticky end.

Peter Black reports the results of a Swansea University study, which shows that three quarters of the asylum seekers studied "had no knowledge of welfare benefits and support before coming to the UK". If that's the case then making our policy even more draconian is hardly going to deter many immigrants, and will simply penalise the most vulnerable.

Sara Bedford takes A. N. Wilson apart

Brilliant demolition of Conservative plans for marriage tax breaks

#againsttheodds Sara Bedford takes apart the latest Labour PPB.

Excellent article by Stephen Tall explaining how the leader Cameron most resembles is Hague.

When politicians talk pollocks.