The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Flint reveals why she resigned from Brown cabinet | Metro.co.uk. You have to smile sometimes. Politicians hold two inconsistent thoughts in their heads so often that they don't notice when they express them both at once; Ms Flint quit as Europe minister last week, accusing Gordon Brown of using his…

Government jobs | Guardian Jobs "page 1". Almost every company I know in the economically-productive sector of the economy has a hiring and/or salaries freeze (usually imposed after making redundancies and/or renegotiating salaries and benefits). Not so the public sector. At a time when the state payroll should be slashed…

Mrs Paine was chatting to the nurses during her out-patient visit today. "I feel sorry for him," said one, pointing at a newspaper picture of Gordon Brown. "How much must he need the job? He must realise he's no good at it. Everyone knows." Were she a psychiatric nurse, she…

Unenlightened Commentary.: Labour's Strategic Brilliance. Unenlightened Commentary (one for the daily reading list, I think) has seen through Labour's spin and worked out why Harriet Harman ran the "non-campaign" of which Prescott complained. I feel so foolish now.

Our journalists are really betraying their biases today. Elections are, admittedly, a crude tool. It is hard to express complex opinions with a single "X" on a ballot sheet.  But the media interpretation of the EU Parliament election results is shocking. It seems the left/liberal Establishment now sees every election…

THE CROWN BLOGSPOT: The reshuffle task – Gordon Brown faces Lord Sir Alan Sugar in the boardroom. The excellent Crown Blogspot nails it again

Flint Departs With Sexist Blast At Brown (from The Herald ). I laughed when a colleague told me yesterday that, whatever one's political views, one must feel a little sympathy for the hapless Gordon Brown. She even thought he might get some "pity votes" at an election, so pathetic a…