Despite complaints about "Gestapo-like" tactics pursued by police investigating the cash-for-honours affair, it seems that the trio arrested by Inspector Knacker -Lord Levy, Ruth Turner and Sir Christopher Evans - may have been treated more favourably than most suspected villains.   more »

The old NuLabour trick of "burying the bad news" in a flurry of announcements which overwhelm the limited analytical resources of the mainstream media and the opposition political parties, is a practice which seems to be continuing under the supposedly "more accountable" style of government under the micro-meddling Prime Minister Gordon Brown. all have been published together just before the unusually long Parliamentary summer recess.   more »