Whilst I agree the resignation honours system should be ended, I'm not actually sure it's a particularly important part of the PM's arsenal in terms of patronage. "I might sling y… (View Post)

Where do you keep four year old receipts, tickets valid for one trip on the Istanbul Metro in 1998, and your Rumbelows loyalty card if you don't have a wallet? (View Post)

Brown essentially did as he had a dissolution honours list at the time of the 2010 election (and Callaghan and Heath also took the approach that they'd basically had their list - although Major … (View Post)

Nobody at the Dog & Duck is going to say, "bloody Tories, trampling on a 'constitutional norm' that has been around since Pitt the Younger or something... how ridiculous". Whe… (View Post)

This article can only mean OGH has been passed over for the Order of the Garter yet again. An omission which I, for one, feel discredits not only the Truss list but the entire honours system. (View Post)