For many years I’ve been aware the UK was the only country in the EU which didn’t tax foreign heavy goods vehicles. However, that has b...

The above is a photograph of Burrowbridge in Somerset this week. From the early 60s to the late 80s my parents could see the village of...

It's two and a half years ago since the MPs expenses scandal, in the wake of which a ban was placed on MPs claiming back mortgage inter...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is in charge of party political reform.  When he unexpectedly found himself in a position of power within...

The Sun broke the story of Fraser Brown's cystic fibrosis shortly after he was born in 2006. This week in parliament, the soap opera ...

Quietly last night, smothered by the Murdoch fiasco, the Westminster parliament voted 274 to 246 in favour of increasing the UK's contr...

David Cairns, the Labour MP for Inverclyde, has died from acute pancreatitis in a London hospital.  He was 44 and had been hospitalised sin...

The Scottish Parliamentary elections are every four years - as stated in the Scotland Act - but to suit Westminster the 2015 election has ...

On Monday Westminster MPs voted, by 298 to 206, against overnight Scottish election counts.  Labour had put forward an amendment to the Sc...

A few days after I wrote this post , it's reported McDonald's and PepsiCo are to help write UK health policy .  To be fair Kellogg...

I know the majority of you will readily recognise the smiling face above, but for the few like me who don't have a clue who owns this de...

The title may be amusing but the behaviour of the recently elected Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood, Mark Reckless, certainly is no...

David Cameron and George Osborne are under pressure from the EU to allow the vetting of the budget. George Osborne was warned privately of...

Tory MP Edward Leigh, former chair of the Public Accounts Committee, writes in today's Express of 'T he Idiots Who Waste Our Cash ...

A YouGov survey has exposed 'mounting English resentment over the level of Treasury funding Scotland receives - currently 20% higher th...

The title is the headline in today's Times Scottish section, yet there is little mention that he's served in the Commons for 23 yea...

Quote of the Day More than 20 MPs broke rules on declaring hospitality in questions or debates after visiting locations such as the Maldives...

Video courtesy of Moridura During the rabble called PMQs yesterday, Angus Robertson the SNP MP, asked a question about Stephen Purcell. ...

Televised 'leaders' debates are to go ahead and the 76 rules will be strictly adhered to by the broadcasters. I am in agreement with...

The poster above should read 'on my side'. Nigel Griffiths, the MP for Edinburgh south, you will recall, was the MP who confessed ...