Labour leadership candidate David Miliband has been boasting on Twitter about his five point plan for gender equality. Well three of the five points are internal Labour Party stuff, and the ...

 It's definitely not like me to write two posts about David Miliband in one day, but he's provided me with the material. I was shocked by the lack of judgement ...

"We will end the detention of children for immigration purposes"So says the Coalition's Programme for Government  on page 21 and this is what I expect to happen, despite today's story in ...

Today is the 15th anniversary of the day my Granny, Annie Souter, passed away. It's also the 4th birthday of this blog. I don't think I deliberately started the blog ...

I am lying on the couch listening to Petrie Hosken's show on LBC. For a Scottish girl, I spend plenty time catching shows on London radio! Tonight the Divine Ms ...

Bereavement comes to all of us at some points in our lives. It's horrible and painful, and, whether sudden or expected feels too much to bear. However, most of us ...

I suspect that some people on Twitter must think I'm incredibly shallow. You, dear readers, already know that my tastes are a veritable cornucopia of trash, but there are limits. ...

I had wondered if Nick Clegg would be doing PMQs at noon today as David Cameron continued his babymoon with new daughter Florence. Last night it seemed that this would ...

First of all, a great big thank you to every person who took the time and trouble to vote for me in the Total Politics Blog Poll. It's not as ...

As MSPs return to Holyrood after what's effectively their last chance to get a decent break before the elections next May, I thought it might be a good time to ...

I was gutted last night when I glanced down my blogroll and saw a post from J Arthur MacNumpty entitled Every start requires an end. Surely another star of the ...

If the BBC Breakfast producers had a sleepless night worrying about how the new ITV morning show Daybreak might affect them, I'm sure they will be pleased now that their ...

Putting the Wikio rankings out on a Sunday? I don't know! Anyway, I thought I'd put them up while I had a few spare minutes to make me feel less ...

Maybe it's just the way my mind works, but when I saw this tweet from the soon to be doomed to defeat Ed Balls' Cheerleader-in-Chief, my first thought was to ...

Today's Scotland on Sunday carries a story about how the Scottish Conservatives are licking their wounds because they've been left out in the cold since the General Election.Apparently David Cameron has ...

It's been a wee while since I've done one of these round ups of good blog posts I've read, and this one is primarily going to welcome some new blogs ...

There's all sorts of questions being asked about whether Andy Coulson was aware of phone tapping being carried out by journalists working for him when he was editor of the ...

Stephen's tagged me in this meme from Facebook, Like him, I thought I'd cross post here, but with some additional notes. There are some who might think I should hang ...

Like many others, I'm sad to see that former Liberal MP Cyril Smith passed away today at the age of 82.He certainly didn't fit the beard and sandalled hippy liberal ...

People in the Inverness area have a new radio station, Monster FM, for the next month, staffed by local young people who've spent many months learning how the world of ...