1pm Update: I understand that at its meeting this morning, the Standards Committee was unable to come to a conclusion as to what decision to take over Caroline Spelman's case. As such, I gather that the committee chairman, Sir George Young, intends using the next week to take soundings from among th...

Telegraph view: The Home Secretary no less has been milking the system and the news causes scarcely a stir....

A rather amusing post on Comment Central drawing on news from Australia that there are plans afoot to make politiciains have breathalyser testing to ensure they're not pissed before they vote This is because our antipodean brethren politicians have been caught doing all sorts of manner of silly thin...

The other day I decided that I should have some different ringtones on my iPhone 3G.  Notably, I wanted a separate one for my wife, and several other different ones for my business colleagues. For some reason I had it in my head that making ringtones from the music that I had in my iTunes program w...

Extra properties subsidised at cost of thousands even though constituencies are short ride from Commons...

House of Commons rules state that the Additional Cost Allowance is paid to "reimburse members for necessary costs incurred when staying overnight away from their main home for the purpose of performing parliamentary duties?....

Details of the 4 MPs, whose second home is further away from the Commons than their constituency home....

Last week ConservativeHome published a guide to the decidedly Thatcherite views of the candidates who have been adopted as Conservative candidates for the next General Election.  126 adopted candidates took part in the survey that also asked for advice for all those contemplating following in t...

A child will legally be able to have two mothers and no father after MPs voted to take away the need for fathers when parents undergo fertility treatment....

Reading them our rights As BOM readers will know, Heather Brooke is a fearless and indefatigable freedom of information campaigner. She runs the blog Your Right to Know. For the past couple of years she has been hard on the case of our rascally MPs over their secret expense claims. And today she has...