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…

Good luck in finding one. If recent events prove anything, it's that voting by reference to the candidate's membership of a major party is not a reliable method, so you will have to think harder. Meanwhile, I am disenfranchised and walking thoughtfully in the Belgian woods, wondering what you will…