Quentin Letts

A lively Transport Secretary would be teasing the Europeans for technical incompetence and political disunity. But Heidi Alexander is not high-energy.

Andy Burnham marked his unopposed election as Labour leader with a speech at London's Congress House, that retro temple to union power.

Our 59th Prime Minister sauntered through the door of 10 Downing Street after the usual palaver: a ride in an armour-plated Range Rover, 'kissing hands' at the Palace and then a speech...

History has its mysteries - the building of Stonehenge, the fate of the Mary Celeste - but little is as baffling as the rise of Ed Miliband.

By and large we British do not go in for mass self-flagellation.

In a throbbingly hot day-room Andy Burnham gave a speech about how the country might pay for old-age care. He did so with minimal reference to taxes. Don't mention the T word.

Labour MPs first tried to ban me from the Commons press gallery two decades ago, after I ridiculed Speaker ‘Gorbals Mick' Martin.

It claims Parliament is an 'alcohol-soaked workplace' where all-day boozing is 'embedded' and alcohol has been 'a driver of harmful behaviours and poor conduct among politicians'.

Labour MPs first tried to ban me from the Commons press gallery two decades ago, after I ridiculed Speaker ‘Gorbals Mick’ Martin. Jim Sheridan MP said I was ‘abusing the facilities’. Only later did we discover big Jim was the one abusing the...

Where were you when the balloon went up on Friday? I had finished an outdoor supper in Herefordshire, a dry breeze stirring the treetops, when my mobile telephone emitted an insistent.