Even if Labour ditched Mr Brown he wouldn’t go away. Can anybody imagine the havoc an aggrieved Gordon would create on the back benches?

The seemingly inexplicable decision over the Station Hill Development has many dimensions. But once you give influence to a bunch of badly dressed architects there was only one outcome on the cards.

The epicentre of ineptitude is in Cheshire. Labour’s spin doctors are making fools of themselves in Crewe.

The Conservatives in Reading fell short at last Thursday’s elections in Reading. In a tight race it was local factors that made the difference.

Bureaucrats rule OK? What’s next for Reading Borough Council now that the electorate has spoken?

Whatever happens on 1 May the Liberals on Reading Council are likely to sit on their hands. That’s what best suits their political interests.

Drugs are a serious business and the objective of drugs policy in the UK and elsewhere might as well be to maximise the profits of organised crime – because that’s the outcome.

Grey power rules the political manifestos. Until we break this cycle how on earth can the ones with a future get a look in?

Half-baked ideas from the great and the good have a way of emerging from the long grass to bit politicians in the bum.

There is no end to what politicians will do to make themselves look ridiculous. I know. I’ve done it!