Fiddling expenses is a crime, as not a few MPs and several peers have discovered. Nor is it just the scale of the fraud that determines the existence of a crime, though it plays a role in setting the penalty. It is the principle: the claiming of money – in these cases, public money – to which someone is not entitled. Now Baroness Warsi, co-chairman of the Conservative Party and the country's first woman Muslim cabinet minister, finds herself in the frame.

A superb video went up on YouTube yesterday, a revelation to anyone who has never witnessed a real life spin-doctor haranguing a journalist.

Were we transported back to 1952 this weekend? To read comments on the Prime Minister's sartorial choices at a "society wedding" (read, posh), you'd think so. Essentially the story can be summarised thus: man wears lounge suit – rather than a morning suit – to wedding.

The Lords sleaze watchdog is investigating Baroness Warsi's expenses after she asked him to examine allegations she claimed for accommodation while staying rent-free at a friend's house.

It was love at first bite. That is, when the executives from Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times newspaper invited a fresh-faced Labour frontbencher called Tony Blair to dinner.

After some 40 years in politics, the unbending Dennis Skinner still relishes baiting Tories, says Andy McSmith

A Metropolitan Police team is to fly to Libya to continue the investigation into the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher.

The Culture Secretary may come to regret his SMS habit

Anti-cuts activists plan to block roads and hold street parties this weekend as part of a campaign to promote alternatives to austerity.

Labour rejoices after PM calls the shadow Chancellor a 'muttering idiot'

He is making the same mistake as Sarkozy. He has demeaned the office he holds

Labour leader Ed Miliband has claimed a controversial report by a Downing Street adviser which called for changes to make it easier for businesses to sack people showed the "nasty party" was back.

Prisoners should be given the right to vote, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled yesterday, in an ultimatum that will undoubtedly increase acrimony between the judges in Strasbourg and the Government.