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The Banking Commission says its key objective is to protect the UK taxpayer from another bailout. At the same time, they suggest a sort of two-tier system within banks, as opposed to institutional separation. Sounds to me like they're proposing the sort of changes I was aiming at [...]

  My pre-election expectations range from realism to pessimism. I anticipated the results of all my six General Election results except the last one in 2011 and the first one in 1987.  I could have lost both. Today's poll on the Assembly Election is an extraordinary one.  The only worthwhile analysis was [...]

Sir John Vickers, head of the Banking Commission, has today said that UK banking needs some radical reform.  No kidding. Everyone - including Sir John - seems intent on some form of separation; retail banking from investment, or - in Vince Cable-speak - the sensible from the casino. [...]

First full week back at work after the festive season and it has been nonstop complete with a mini student protest on Wednesday night when I was being interviewed at the LSE. See here for footage. I am looking forward to a packed constituency day today. I am [...]

The government has said that if over 100,000 people sign a petition, it could lead to a debate in Parliament.  Good.  Instead of having to hope that someone in the Westminster village shares your concerns, you now have a formal mechanism to get them to respond to issues [...]

LOCAL Cardiff West MP, KEVIN Brennan, has beaten Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to be named Social Media MP of the Year by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.The BCS awards recognise MPs who have embraced web technologies and are using them to engage effectively with their constituents.Mr Brennan managed [...]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6PNps5N9I Hat-tip to Rantin’ Rab.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6PNps5N9I Hat-tip to Rantin’ Rab. [...]

SCREAM as the diabolic Baron Cameronstein conducts his ghastly experiments! GASP as he unwittingly creates not one, but FOUR evil monstrosities! SHRIEK as the minions of hell are unleashed on an unsuspecting public! Get a rope! Cameronstein’s monsters must be destroyed before they destroy us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KARd8LxkeEw [...]

PROOF that I can, after all, use brainwaves to compel people in YouTube videos to do exactly what I want them to do… www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMNXACuCiPQ Hat-tip to John Rentoul and Mehdi Hasan.

PROOF that I can, after all, use brainwaves to compel people in YouTube videos to do exactly what I want them to do… www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMNXACuCiPQ Hat-tip to John Rentoul and Mehdi Hasan. [...]

FOR all those who voted LibDem believing it would keep the Tories out… www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcidIJfEHTQ

FOR all those who voted LibDem believing it would keep the Tories out… www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcidIJfEHTQ [...]

I’LL JUST let Nick do the talking on this one, shall I…? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYMN7l_wo5U

I’LL JUST let Nick do the talking on this one, shall I…? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYMN7l_wo5U [...]

THEM CHEEKY young scamps over at Political Scrapbook have put together this entertaining video based on Dave’s inspiring [ahem!] conference speech. Watch it to the very end where Yours Truly puts in a short appearance and PS hit upon an ace idea for a compilation album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBQunIVbIBI [...]

The real divide within the Coalition is not between Tory and Lib Dem, nor between deficit-denier and those who can add up. Rather it is between two different types of reformer; the technocrats V the Google-ites. The demise of the rotten Parliament, followed by the rise of the Coalition mean that there is [...]

WE’RE being asked to believe that Defence Secretary Liam Fox is “shocked and angry” at the leak of his letter to David Cameron, warning the PM off defence cuts. Why does Liam’s reaction remind me of Captain Renault’s in Casablanca? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIX_0nMlIBU [...]

WHILE everyone’s waiting for today’s main political event, here’s some highly entertaining light relief from SyFy channel’s Scare Tactics www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHb4NriHm5c Hat-tip: Craig Tulloch. [...]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmf6PgXnwuk Alternatively, Ronnie and Reggie were joined by their two wee cousins in the systematic demolition of their Tardis Zipperobe this afternoon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmf6PgXnwuk Alternatively, Ronnie and Reggie were joined by their two wee cousins in the systematic demolition of their Tardis Zipperobe this afternoon. [...]

BELIEVE me, I don’t want to have to write stuff about Ipsa any more than you want to read it. But after today’s publication of “logs” on MPs’ alleged bad behaviour towards Ipsa staff, I accepted the offer to appear on Newsnight to discuss the situation. I fear my hope, expressed [...]

LONG time readers will be aware that I’m a fan of the zombie oeuvre and in the past have attempted to offer helpful advice on surviving the inevitable zombie holocaust, whenever it arrives. In recent months I’ve been reading Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, a series of graphic novels portraying an [...]

FROM the people who gave you the computer animation version of Gordon Brown punching the car seat in front of him… www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u1YtyTKQjo Hat-tip Beatrice Bray

FROM the people who gave you the computer animation version of Gordon Brown punching the car seat in front of him… www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u1YtyTKQjo Hat-tip Beatrice Bray [...]

PRODUCING a Downfall video is hard enough without having to avoid swear words (except one minor one). Still, I thought that on the first anniversary of Al-Megrahi’s release from jail by the SNP, I’d give it a shot. And before you complain, I am not trying to smear Scotland’s First Minister [...]