Quentin Letts

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.

Rumbles of war are, in hot summer weeks, a nuisance to heads of government.

Something amazing happened as I was walking my 91-year-old mother through Ledbury: we saw a bobby on the beat. He was even in a helmet, not a baseball cap. ‘A real policeman!’ squealed various people, reacting as they might to a steam train or an Austin-Healey, reminders of more distinctive days. The same surprise may

After a blissfully quiet few weeks when he struggled to score so much as a 'news in brief' paragraph, and the television studios largely stopped calling, Mr Polanski has again been hogging the headlines.

A new computer game gives players an opportunity to face various prime ministerial dilemmas and to be scored accordingly.

He wandered in at 3.34pm, looking at the floor. For a few minutes he had to wait in a throng of greasers near the front bench.

He wandered in at 3.34pm, looking at the floor. For a few minutes he had to wait in a throng of greasers near the front bench.

This was his first Wednesday high noon: people had crowded into the chamber, the galleries over-spilling with visitors and peers.