The SNP have won an historic victory in Glasgow East with a swing of just over 22%. The conventional wisdom has it that such swings simply do not happen, and few 'experts' would have bet on an SNP gain. Just goes to show.
Sadie Smith was born in Bognor Regis 28 years ago, and it hasn't got much more glamorous than that since then. Having attended a state school in Chichester, she spent three years studying Social and Political Sciences at the...
Filed this just before I went away. I’d just got off the bus on my way home from the ill-fated Ray Lewis press conference at City Hall when I bumped into someone from Hackney Council. “Have you seen this week’s Gazette?” she...
More Sadie - this time, the Normblog profile.What philosophical thesis do you think it most important tocombat?I'm not sure it's a philosophical thesis as such (given that its standard-bearers appear to be such intellectual...
Telecommunications providers may soon be forced to take the initiative and drastically step up their data security and data accuracy measures should the green light be given to a proposed new government database. Under the new...
The government's controversial plan to require foreign nationals to acquire identity cards has taken another step forward. Revealing the timetable for the roll-out, home secretary Jacqui Smith told BBC Breakfast the initiative...
If so, you might want to know that the Western Morning News - the south-west's regional newspaper - is holding a readers' Q&A event with David Cameron in Cornwall next week. Do you have a question for Dave? Perhaps: "What did...
The Port Arthur News Devan Meeks, a suspect in the murder of a Chambers County man, was indicted for unauthorized use of a vehicle. Meeks, 19, of Sabine Pass, was indicted by a Jefferson County Grand Jury for allegedly taking a...
The prime minister's holiday spot is chosen to make him seem more normal, but it achieves exactly the opposite So it may not be an invasion of privacy on the Max Mosley scale, but when did we all decide that the whole country...
A year ago this week, the Tories came third in the Ealing by-election. The result followed a disastrous campaign, with "David Cameron's Conservatives", as they were being referred to, falling victim to Gordon Brown's political...