No-one posting updates from the Commons debate? No sign of the Labour front bench on the Labour front bench. (View Post)

Osborne grifting for donations on a Russian billionaire oligarch's yacht was a bit shameful (as leaked by, erm, Peter Mandelson). (View Post)

Standard practice for the United States to appoint political and celebrity ambassadors. (View Post)

Sokolnicheskaya metro line restored in Moscow https://iz.ru/en/node/2082824 Train malfunction caused a lot of smoke, or something. (View Post)

Matthew Doyle. To appoint one ambassador friend of a convicted paedophile may be regarded as misfortune... Ah. Times man tweets David Lammy was kept in the dark. Doyle got a peerage in the end. Sir K… (View Post)