Funnily enough (or not) it seems to be the MPs who are already wealthy who are making the most money on the side. So I'm not sure that the argument that limits to outside earnings will deter the… (View Post)

It could go on for ages, as investigative journalists and others (including Labour Party officers) work their way through the alphabetical Register of Members' Interests, where all this stuff is… (View Post)

Antipathy towards the Commissioner and the Standards Committee from a number of Tory MPs has been festering away for months now; it was Paterson (and then Johnson) who, unwisely, dragged it into the … (View Post)

It may well be that Cox hasn't broken any significant rules and is given a clean bill of health, though if I were one of his constituents I'd be pretty cheesed off that he spends so little … (View Post)

Yes, twice. I said no thank you, I'm not gay. By contrast, my wife has been propositioned by unsavoury heterosexual men on hundreds of occasions, starting when she was about 13 years old. (View Post)