The watchdog that oversees parliamentary expenses has hit back at criticism of it by MPs and warned they have not convinced the public the system has been cleaned up.

For Lloyd George, "there is no friendship at the top". If the titanic Blair-Brown feud bore out the dictum of a Westminster street-fighter who gave as good as he got, then their intimate enmity has parallels over two centuries.

Grateful for Archie Bland’s clarification of the argument about the squatter camp in Parliament Square.

I was pleased to see John Rentoul’s post about the encampment in Parliament Square.

After PMQs, a quick statement by the Speaker on the new chairman of what we have to call IPSA, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, who is Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, who I suppose we should refer to as PSIK.

BNP leader Nick Griffin will no longer be entitled to a House of Commons pass following a decision taken by MPs.

I only found out the day before we came up here that I was going to be getting onto the roof of the mother of all Parliaments."

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The gay Conservative parliamentary candidate Ashley Crossley appeared jubilant last night after an "overwhelming majority'' voted against his deselection in a dispute tainted by allegations of homophobia.