In his own words.

He wanted his seat to go to a UFO expert.

#fb That will be fun, won't it!

One of the UK's best journalists interviews one of the UK's best politicians.

Surveying the options.

Legitimacy v independence v expertise.

What is it for?

Historical background

UK government targeting the weakest in society.

Resigning Tory MEP clarifies situation.

I do hope he does well in Iowa.

Cameron's allies dwindling...

Joyce McMillan in the Scotsman on "perhaps the most formidable incumbent politician in Britain, one who had defied the odds to win a stunning electoral victory, largely by offering an optimistic world-view that no other party could match."

How much do you know about the British way of life????

Kirtsy Hughes, again: "Rather than playing a major influential role to stop a euro-meltdown, or being in a position to lead through the crisis if the euro did implode, Cameron has relegated the UK to the sidelines whichever way the euro crisis plays out. It is a deeply unimpressive result for a country and a government that likes to assert it…

Brilliant piece from my former colleague Kirsty.

"The leader of the Ulster Unionists has rejected a Conservative Party proposal that they disband and become a Northern Ireland wing of the Tories." - an extraordinarily tone-deaf offer, incomprehensible.

Aged 32, she joined in 2009 and fought first election this year.

Ken MacLeod on Jura and Orwell's political legacy.

Andrew Duff: "everyone in Brussels and elsewhere knows that, in current or likely future circumstances, no question with the word ‘Europe' in it will induce the answer ‘Yes' in a British referendum."

#fb meet the new MEP for the East Midlands.

The future for the political Right in Scotland. (Bleak.)

"...avoid moral panic and a rush to historically-illiterate judgement."

Labour Party adviser with extreme views on immigration dismissed as "over the top" and "simply not practicable" by leader of hard right Migration Watch thinktank.

A far better idea for reforming the Upper House than the government's current proposals.

"From today I will no longer be reading any articles, whether online or in the paper, published by The Sun, The News of the World or The Daily Mail."

"PMQ is, in my oipinion, representative of all that is bad in British democracy. It does none of what its defenders claim it does, and does much to reduce the significance of what is going on to a silly game of points-scoring and debating-chamber rhetoric. It's something loved by political junkies and hated by people who wish politicians…